Publications
Research publications
Bold indicates lab members.
Wong, M.Y., Batterman, S.A., Lucas, J.M., Fleischer, K., Ashton, M.S., Bauters, M., Burslem, D.F., Cushman, K.C., Dalling, J.W., Doetterl, S., Esquivel‐Muelbert, A., Fortunel, C., Holm, J.A., Huanca-Nunez, N., Liang, G., Libalah, M.B., Lira-Martins, D., Medina-Vega, J.A., Muller-Landau, H.C., Needham, J., Ordway, E.M., Sánchez-Juliá, M., Toro, L., Xu, X., Wright, S.J., Zuquim, C., and Gora, E.M. 2026. Soil fertility controls on tropical forest productivity and mortality: synthesis and roadmap. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.71367
Tang, W., Hall, J.S., Phillips, O.I., Brienen, R.J.W., Wright, S.J., Wong, M.Y., Hedin, L.O., van Breugel, M., Yavitt, J.B., Hannam, P.M. and Batterman, S.A., 2025. Tropical forest carbon sequestration accelerated by nitrogen. Nature Communications, 17 (1), 55. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66825-2
Toro, L., Werden L.K., Addo-Danso, S.D. Andersen, K.M., Batterman, S. Bragadini, M.M., Choksi, P. Cole, R.J. Comita, L.S. Cusack, D., Dent, D.H., Dietterich, L.H., Fisher, J.B., Fleischer, K., Fuchslueger, L., Huanca-Nunez, N., Lienau, J.R., McCulloch, L.A., Morrissey, E.M., Powers, J.S., Sánchez-Juliá, M., Valverde-Barrantes, O., Weissflog, A., Wong, M.Y. 2025. Integrating belowground recovery into tropical forest restoration design and monitoring. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf097
Cordeiro, A.L., Cusack, D.F., Guerrero‐Ramírez, N., Norby, R.J., Toro, L., Wong, M.Y., Wright, S.J., Cabugao, K.G.M., Andersen, K.M., Fuchslueger, L. and Iversen, C.M., 2025. TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments. Ecology, 106(5), p.e70074. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70074
Biro, A., Wong, M.Y., Lucas, J.M., Batterman, S.A. and Staver, A.C., 2025. Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70040
Almaraz, M., Wang, C., and Wong, M.Y. 2025. Deep soil contributions to global nitrogen budgets. Nature Communications, 1 6:966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56132-1
Yaffar, D., Lugli, L.F., Wong, M.Y., Norby, R.J., Addo‐Danso, S.D., Arnaud, M., Cordeiro, A.L., Dietterich, L.H., Diaz‐Toribio, M.H., Lee, M.Y. and Ghimire, O.P., Smith-Martin, C.M., Toro, L., Andersen, K.M., McCulloch, L.A., Meier, I.C., Powers, J.S., Sanchez-Julia, M.S., Soper, F.M., and Cusack, D.F., 2024. Tropical root responses to global changes: A synthesis. Global Change Biology, 30(7), p.e17420. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17420
Wong, M.Y., Wurzburger, N., Hall, J.S., Wright, S.J., Tang, W., Hedin, L.O., Saltonstall, K., van Breugel, M. and Batterman, S.A., 2024. Trees adjust nutrient acquisition strategies across tropical forest secondary succession. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19812
Lu, L., Li, L., Rathod, S., Hess, P., Martínez, C., Fernandez, N., Goodale, C., Thies, J., Wong, M.Y., Alaimo, M.G. and Artaxo, P., Barraza, F., Barreto, Á., Beddows, D., Chellam, S., Chen, Y., Chuang, P., Cohen, D., Dongarra, G., Gaston, C., Gomez, D., Morera-Gomez, Y., Hakola, H., Hand, J., Harrison, R., Hopke, P., Hueglin, C., Kuang, Y., Kyllönen, K., Lambert, F., Maenhaut, W., Martin, R., Paytan, A., Prospero, J., González, Y., Rodriguez, S., Smichowski, P., Varrica, D., Walsh, B., Weagle, C., Xiao, Y., and Mahowald, N, 2024. Characterizing the atmospheric Mn cycle and its impact on terrestrial biogeochemistry. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(4), p.e2023GB007967. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007967
Biro, A., Wong, M.Y., Zhou, Y., Batterman, S.A. and Staver, A.C., 2024. Nitrogen and phosphorus availability alters tree‐grass competition intensity in savannas. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14284
Cusack, D.F., Reed, S., Andersen, K.M., Cinoğlu, D., Craig, M.E., Dietterich, L.H., Hogan, J.A., Holm, J.A., Nottingham, A.T., Ostertag, R. and Soper, F.M., Wood, T.E., Wong, M.Y. 2024. Tropical forests and global change: biogeochemical responses and opportunities for cross-site comparisons, an organized INSPIRE session at the 108th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2023. New Phytologist, 241(5), pp.1922-1926. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19511
McCulloch, L.A., Prada, C.M., Liao, W., Bauters, M., Church, L., Lee, M.Y., Toro, L., Van de Velde, V., Weissflog, A., Wong, M. and Taylor, B.N., 2024. Belowground foundations of tropical forest restoration. Biotropica. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13296
Cusack, D.F., Christoffersen, B., Smith‐Martin, C.M., Andersen, K.M., Cordeiro, A.L., Fleischer, K., Wright, S.J., Guerrero‐Ramírez, N.R., Lugli, L.F., McCulloch, L.A. Sanchez‐Julia, M., Batterman, S.A., Dallstream, C., Fortunel, C., Toro, L., Fuchslueger, L. Wong, M.Y., Yaffar, D., Fisher, J.B., Arnaud, M., Dietterich, L.H. Addo-Danso, S.D., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., Weemstra, M.,Ng, J.C., and Norby R.J. 2024. Toward a coordinated understanding of hydro‐biogeochemical root functions in tropical forests for application in vegetation models. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19561
Maracahipes-Santos, L., Silvério, D.V., Maracahipes, L., Macedo, M.N., Lenza, E., Jankowski, K.J., Wong, M.Y., Silva, A.C.S.D., Neill, C., Durigan, G. and Brando, P.M., 2023. Intraspecific trait variability facilitates tree species persistence along riparian forest edges in Southern Amazonia. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.12454. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39510-x
Almaraz, M., Wong, M.Y., and Yang, W.H., 2023. New frontiers and paradigms in terrestrial nitrogen cycling. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6, p.1196146. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1196146
Zhou, Y., Biro, A., Wong, M.Y., Batterman, S.A. and Staver, A.C., 2022. Fire decreases soil enzyme activities and reorganizes microbially‐mediated nutrient cycles: A meta‐analysis. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3807
Cusack, D.F., Addo-Danso, S., Agee, E.A., Andersen, K.M., Arnaud, M., Batterman, S.A., Brearley, F.Q., Ciochina, M., Cordeiro, A.L., Dallstream, C., Diaz-Toribio, M.H., Dietterich, L.H., Fisher, J.B., Fleischer, K., Fortunel, C., Fuchslueger, L., Guerrero-Ramirez, N., Kotowska, M., Lugli, L.F., Marín, C., McCulloch, L.A., Maeght, JL. Metcalfe, D., Norby, R.J., Oliveira, R.S., Powers, J.S., Reichert, R., Smith, S.W., Smith-Martin, S., Soper, F., Toro, L., Umana, M.N., Valverde-Barrantes, O., Weemstra, M., Werden, L., Wong, M., Wright, S.J., and Yaffar, D. Tradeoffs and Synergies in Tropical Forest Root Traits for Nutrient and Water Acquisition: Field and Modeling Advances. 2021. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.704469
Almaraz, M., Wong, M.Y., Geoghegan, E.K., Houlton, B.Z. A review of carbon farming impacts on nitrogen cycling, retention, and loss. 2021. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14690
Fork, M., Anderson, E., Castellanos, A., Fischhoff, I., Matsler, M., Nieman, C., Olesky, I., Wong, M. Creating community: How we collectively built an adaptable postdoctoral program to develop skills and overcome isolation. 2021. Ecosphere. https://doi.org10.22541/au.160519333.36036478/v1
Soper, F.M., Taylor, B.N., Winbourne, J.B., Wong, M.Y., Dynarski, K.A., Reis, C.R., Peoples, M.B., Cleveland, C.C., Reed, S.C., Menge, D.N. and Perakis, S.S. 2021. A roadmap for sampling and scaling biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, pp.1122–1137. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13586
Wong, M., Rathod, S., Marino, R., Li, L., Howarth, R.W., Alastuey, A., Alaimo, M., Barraza, F., Carneiro, M., Chellam, S., Chen Y.C., Cohen, D., Connelly, D., Dongarra, G., Gomez, D., Hand, J., Harrison, R.M., Hopke, P., Hueglin, C., Kuang, Y.W., Lambert, F., Liang, J., Losno, R., Maenhaut, W., Milando, C., Monteiro, M.I.C., Morera-Gómez, Y., Querol, X., Rodriguez, S., Smichowski, P., Varrica, D., Xiao, Y., Xu, Y., and Mahowald, N.M. 2021. Anthropogenic Perturbations to the Atmospheric Molybdenum Cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006787
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Wong, M.Y., Neill, C., Marino, R., Silvério, D.V., and Howarth, R.W. 2021. Molybdenum, phosphorus, and pH do not constrain nitrogen fixation in a tropical forest in the southeastern Amazon. Ecology, 102(1), e03211, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3211
Wong, M.Y., Neill, C., Marino, R., Silvério, D.V., Brando, P.M. and Howarth, R.W. 2020. Biological Nitrogen Fixation Does Not Replace Nitrogen Losses After Forest Fires in the Southeastern Amazon. Ecosystems, 23, pp.1037–1055. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00453-y
Wong, M.Y., Mahowald, N.M., Marino, R., Williams, E.R., Chellam, S. and Howarth, R.W. 2020. Natural atmospheric deposition of molybdenum: a global model and implications for tropical forests. Biogeochemistry, 149(2), pp.159-174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00671-w
Almaraz, M., Wong, M.Y. and Yang, W.H. 2020. Looking back to look ahead: a vision for soil denitrification research. Ecology, 101(1), p.e02917. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2917
Winbourne, J.B., Harrison, M.T., Sullivan, B.W., Alvarez-Clare, S., Lins, S.R., Martinelli, L., Nasto, M., Piotto, D., Rolim, S., Wong, M.Y. and Porder, S. 2018. A new framework for evaluating estimates of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in forests. The American Naturalist, 192(5), pp. 618-629. https://doi.org/10.1086/699828
Teaching publications
Larson, E.I. and Wong, M.Y. 2019. Using structured decision making to explore complex environmental issues. CourseSource.
https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2019.18
Non-peer-reviewed publications
Ordway, E.M., M.M. Keller, M. Longo, R. Negron-Juarez, Y. Feng, H. Stouter, I.N. Rivera, A. Alencar, A. Bey, R.K. Braghiere, A. Cardoso, K.D. Chadwick, J.D Fuentes, R. Eckert, L. Fatoyinbo, A. Ferraz, L. Guild, M.S. Johnson, E. Kane, L.S. Koutika, Y. Li, J. Liu, I.B. Mccubbin, F. Meunier, C.E. Miller, H.C. Muller-Landau, T. Nkuintchua, M. Nunes, L.B.S. Takougoum, M.J. Santos, F.D. Schneider, M. Simard, B. Sonke, C. Terrer, M. von Essen, M.Y. Wong, S.R. Worden, X. Xiao, V. Zaunbrecher, M. Bauters, P. Boeckx, J. Bowen, I. Chiari, O. Csillik, G. Diez, M. Doroso, D.D. Pugley, W. Hubau, A.E. Ochoa, E. Gora, A. Hoyt, J.C. Jintiach, V. Maqque, C. Perryman, Z. Pierrat, L. Saraiva, D. Singh, I. Tanshi, J. Thompson, and H. Verbeeck. 2025. The PANGEA Scoping Study Final Report. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2405