Art Woods
Division of Biological Sciences
University of Montana
32 Campus Drive HS104
Missoula, MT 59812 USA
http://woods-lab.dbs.umt.edu/
(406) 243-5234
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Education
1992 - 1998 Ph.D. University of Washington, Department of Zoology (Joel G. Kingsolver)
1991 - 1992 Research associate at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA
1991 B.S. in Biology, Stanford University
Professional Experience
2011 - Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula
2006 - 2010 Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula
2001-2006 Research scientist and lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences (Section of Integrative Biology) at the University of Texas at Austin.
2000-2001 Postdoctoral research associate, Biological stoichiometry (NSF Integrated Research Challenges in Environmental Biology), advisors: Drs. Jon F. Harrison and James J. Elser.
1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Insect Science, Dept. of Biology, Arizona State University, Postdoctoral advisor: Dr. Jon F. Harrison
Professional Service
2011 – 2014 Associate Editor, Functional Ecology
2013 - Associate Editor, Journal of Insect Physiology
2013 - Associate Editor, American Naturalist
2011 – 2012 Chair, Division of Ecology and Evolution, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
Research interests: Insect physiology, plant-insect interactions, environmental biophysics, acclimation and plasticity, temperature and oxygen biology, gas exchange, ecological and evolutionary physiology, evolution of physiological systems
Grants
2015 – 2016 With Dr. Michael Dillon (Univ. Wyoming) and Dr. Mike Sears (Clemson Univ.) NSF IOS ‘Beyond the mean: Biological impacts of changes in temperature variation’. $15,475 to support a symposium at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR (Jan 2016)
2014 – 2017 Co-PI with Dr. Bret Toblaske (Univ. Montana) and Dr. Amy Moran (Univ. Hawaii) NSF ‘Collaborative Research: Body size, oxygen, and vulnerability to climate change in Antarctic Pycnogonida.’ UM part: $277,559; total amount: $571,402.
2009 – 2014 NSF ‘CAREER: Leaf microclimates and plant-insect interactions.’ $837,000.
2009 University of Montana small grant for exploratory research ($4,900): The physiological ecology of an insect extended phenotype.
2009 MILES and EPSCoR funding for two undergraduates—Tia Hunter and Brian Foster ($5,000 fellowships from MILES each & $1,500 each from EPSCoR)
2009 Co-PI with Drs. James McClintock, Charles Amsler, Bill Baker, and Amy Moran. NSF: Advances in Antarctic Marine Biology Symposium $16,948.
2005 - 2008 Co-PI with Dr. Amy Moran (UNC-Chapel Hill) NSF: ‘Collaborative Research: Effects of oxygen and temperature on egg mass function of Southern Ocean marine invertebrates.’ My part $238,000; total amount $532,000.
2005 – 2006 Co-PI with Dr. Mary Poteet (UT-Austin). Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (Austin): ‘Physiological and behavioral responses of a
Eurycea sosorum to variation in levels of dissolved oxygen and conductivity.’ $90,000.
2004 Three separate grants to undergraduates in my lab from UT’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship program ($1,000, $1,000, and $900).
2003 NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates $14,000
2002 – 2003 NSF ‘QEIB: Gas exchange across insect eggshells’ IBN-0213087, $53,000.
Refereed Journal Articles (* = grad student, ** = postdoc, *** = undergrad)
67. Kingsolver, JG, HA Woods (in review) Beyond thermal performance curves: Modeling time-dependent effects of thermal stress on ectotherm growth rates. American Naturalist.
66. Wilson*, JK, HA Woods (in press) Protection via parasitism: Datura odors attract parasitoid flies, which inhibit Manduca larvae from feeding and growing. Oecologia. *grad student
65. Van Atta***, KJ, KA Potter, HA Woods (in press) Effects of UV-B on environmental preference and egg parasitization by Trichogramma Wasps (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). J. Entomological Science. ***undergraduate student
64. Sprague*, JC, HA Woods (in press) Costs and benefits of underground pupal chambers constructed by insects: a test using Manduca sexta. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. *grad student
63. Wilson*, JK, A Kessler, HA Woods (2015) Noisy communication via airborne infochemicals. BioScience 65, 667 - 677. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biv062 *grad student
62. Corcoran*, AJ, HA Woods (2015) Negligible energetic cost of sonar jamming in a bat-moth interaction. Canadian Journal of Zoology 93, 331 – 335. *grad student
61. Woods, HA, ME Dillon, S Pincebourde (2015) The roles of microclimatic diversity and behavior in mediating the responses of ectotherms to climate change. Journal of Thermal Biology.
60. Caillon*, R, C Suppo, J Casas, HA Woods, S Pincebourde (2014) Warming decreases thermal heterogeneity of leaf surfaces: implications for behavioural thermoregulation by arthropods. Functional Ecology 28, 1449 – 1458. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12288, *grad student
59. Woods, HA (2014) Mosaic physiology from developmental noise: within-organism physiological diversity as an alternative to phenotypic plasticity and phenotypic flexibility. Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 35-45. doi:10.1242/jeb.089698. I did the cover art on this one! And the paper was highlighted in a discussion of the symposium volume, in Inside JEB
58. Kerr***, ED, C Phelan, HA Woods (2013) Subtle direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on insect eggs. Physiological Entomology 38, 302 - 305. ***undergrad
57. Potter** KA & HA Woods (2013) Immobile and tough vs. mobile and weak: effects of UVB radiation on eggs and larvae of Manduca sexta. Physiological Entomology 38, 246 - 252. **postdoc
56. Potter**, KA, HA Woods, S Pincebourde (2013) Microclimatic challenges in global change biology. Global Change Biology 19, 2932 – 2939. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12257 **postdoc
55. Woods HA (2013) Ontogenetic changes in the body temperature of an insect herbivore. Functional Ecology 27, 1322 - 1331.
54. Breuner, CW, RS Sprague*, SH Patterson*, HA Woods (2013) Environment, behavior and physiology: do birds use barometric pressure to predict storms? Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 1982-1990, doi:10.1242/jeb.081067. Spotlight in Inside JEB *grad student
53. Woods HA & JK Wilson* (2013) An information hypothesis for the evolution of homeostasis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28, 283 – 289. *grad student
52. Potter** KA & HA Woods (2012) Trichogramma parasitoids alter the metabolic physiology of Manduca eggs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279, 3572 – 3576. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1050 **postdoc
51. Pincebourde S & HA Woods (2012) Climate uncertainty on leaf surfaces: perspectives on the leaf microclimate from biophysical ecology. Functional Ecology 26, 844 - 853. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02013.x. This article is also part of a virtual issue in Functional Ecology on ecophysiological forecasting
50. Förster** TD & HA Woods (2012) Mechanisms of tracheal filling in insects. Biological Reviews 88, 1 – 14. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00233.x **postdoc
49. Moran AL & HA Woods (2012) Why might they be giants? Towards an understanding of polar gigantism. Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 1995-2002. doi:10.1242/jeb.067066
48. Potter**, KA & HA Woods (2012) The physiology of insect eggs: no evidence for the evolution of abiotic stress physiology among populations of Manduca sexta. Functional Ecology 26, 112–122 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01912.x **postdoc
47. Kingsolver JG, HA Woods, LB Buckley, KA Potter**, H MacLean*, JK Higgins* (2011) Complex life cycles and the responses of insects to climate change. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51, 719-732. doi:10.1093/icb/icr015 *grad student, **postdoc
46. Valdés Á., AL Moran, HA Woods (2011) Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 92, 1161–1174. doi:10.1017/S0025315411000348
45. Valdés Á., AL Moran, HA Woods (2011) A new species of Armodoris (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Akiodorididae) from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Polar Biology 34, 459 - 463.
44. Potter**, KA, G Davidowitz, HA Woods (2011) Cross-stage consequences of egg temperature in the insect Manduca sexta. Functional Ecology 25, 548 – 556. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01807.x **postdoc
43. Woods HA, MF Poteet, PD Hitchings***, RA Brain, BW Brooks (2010) Conservation physiology of the plethodontid salamanders Eurycea nana and E. sosorum: response to declining dissolved oxygen. Copeia 2010(4), 540 - 553.
42. Moran AL & HA Woods (2010) Limits to diffusive O2 transport: flow, form, and function in nudibranch egg masses from temperate and polar regions. PLoS One 5, e12113. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012113.g002
41. Woods, HA & JN Smith (2010) Universal model for water costs of gas exchange by animals and plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107, 8469 – 8474.
40. Mullen LB*, HA Woods, MK Schwartz, AJ Sepulveda, WH Lowe (2010) Scale-dependent genetic structure of the Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus) in stream networks. Molecular Ecology 19, 898-909. *grad student
39. Potter*, KA, G Davidowitz, HA Woods (2009) Insect eggs protected from high temperatures by limited homeothermy of plant leaves. Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 3448 – 3454. *grad student
38. Woods, HA, JC Sprague*, JN Smith (2009) Cavitation in the embryonic tracheal system of Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 3296-3304. *grad student
37. Cahan, SA, AB Daly, T Schwander, HA Woods (2009) Genetic caste determination does not impose growth rate costs in Pogonomyrmex harvester ants. Functional Ecology. Early view PDF published online.
36. Woods, HA (2009) Water loss and gas exchange by eggs of Manduca sexta: trading off costs and benefits. Journal of Insect Physiology 56, 480 - 487.
35. Woods, HA, AL Moran, CP Arango, L Mullen* & C Shields* (2008) Oxygen hypothesis of polar gigantism not supported by performance of Antarctic pycnogonids in hypoxia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Published online: DOI:10.1098/rspb.2008.1489 (research highlight in Nature). *grad student
34. Woods, HA & AL Moran (2008). Temperature-oxygen interactions in Antarctic nudibranch egg masses. Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 798 - 804.
33. Woods, HA & AL Moran (2008) Oxygen profiles in egg masses predicted from a diffusion-reaction model. Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 790 - 797.
32. Woods, HA & RD Podolsky (2007). Photosynthesis drives oxygen levels in near-shore gastropod egg masses. Biological Bulletin 213, 88-94.
31. Raguso, RA, T Ojeda-Avila*, S Desai, MK Jurkiewicz & HA Woods. (2007) The influence of larval diet on adult feeding behaviour in the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. Journal of Insect Physiology 53, 923–932. *grad student
30. Moran, AL & HA Woods (2007) Oxygen in egg masses: interactive effects of temperature, age, and egg-mass morphology on oxygen supply to embryos. Journal of Experimental Biology 210, 722-731.
29. Woods HA & RT Bonnecaze (2006). Insect eggs at a transition between reaction and diffusion limitation: temperature, oxygen, and water. Journal of Theoretical Biology 243, 483–492.
28. Zrubek***, B & HA Woods (2006). Insect eggs exert rapid control over an oxygen-water tradeoff. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273, 831–834. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3374) ***undergrad
27. Watts, T, HA Woods, S Hargand, JJ Elser, TA Markow (2006). Biological stoichiometry of growth in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 52, 187 – 193.
26. Gillooly, JF, AP Allen, JH Brown, JJ Elser, CM del Rio, VM Savage, GB West, WH Woodruff, and HA Woods (2005) The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102, 11923-11927.
25. Woods HA, RT Bonnecaze, B Zrubek*** (2005) Oxygen and water flux across eggshells of Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 1297-1308. ***undergrad
24. Woods, HA and RI Hill* (2004) Temperature-dependent oxygen limitation in insect eggs. Journal of Experimental Biology 207, 2267 - 2276. *grad student
23. Woods, HA, WF Fagan, JJ Elser, and JF Harrison. (2004) Allometric and phylogenetic variation in insect phosphorus content. Functional Ecology 18, 103 - 109.
22. Perkins, MC*, HA Woods, JJ Elser, and JF Harrison (2004) Dietary phosphorus variation affects the growth of larval Manduca sexta. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 55, 153–168. *grad student
21. Woods, HA, W Makino*, J Cotner, S Hobbie, JF Harrison, K Acharya*, and JJ Elser (2003) Temperature and the chemical composition of poikilothermic organisms. Functional Ecology 17, 237-245. *grad student
20. Ojeda-Avila*, T, HA Woods, and RA Raguso (2003) Effects of dietary variation on growth, composition, and maturation of Manduca sexta. Journal of Insect Physiology 49, 293 – 306. *grad student
19. Woods, HA and JF Harrison (2002) Interpreting rejections of the beneficial acclimation hypothesis: when is physiological plasticity adaptive? Evolution 56, 1863 – 1866.
18. Fagan, WF, E Siemann, RF Denno, C Mitter, A Huberty, HA Woods, and JJ Elser (2002) Nitrogen in insects: Implications for trophic complexity and species diversification. American Naturalist 160, 784-802.
17. Woods, HA, MC Perkins, JJ Elser, and JF Harrison (2002) Absorption and storage of phosphorus by larval Manduca sexta. Journal of Insect Physiology 48, 555-564.
16. Woods, HA and MS Singer (2001) Contrasting responses to desiccation and starvation by eggs and neonates of two Lepidoptera. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74, 594-606.
15. Frazier, MR, HA Woods, JF Harrison (2001) Interactive effects of rearing temperature and oxygen on the development of Drosophila melanogaster. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74, 641-650.
14. Woods, HA, CE Sorenson, A Stephenson, JF Harrison (2001) A simple allozyme method for distinguishing all life stages of Manduca sexta and M. quinquemaculata. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 98, 109-113.
13. Woods, HA and JF Harrison (2001) The beneficial acclimation hypothesis versus acclimation of specific traits: physiological change in water-stressed Manduca sexta caterpillars. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74, 32-44.
12. Woods, HA and EA Bernays (2000) Water homeostasis by wild larvae of Manduca sexta. Physiological Entomology 25, 82-87.
11. Bernays, EA and HA Woods (2000) Foraging in nature by larvae of Manduca sexta--influenced by an endogenous oscillation. Journal of Insect Physiology 46, 825-836.
10. Petersen, C, HA Woods, JG Kingsolver (2000) Stage-specific effects of temperature and dietary protein on growth and survival of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Physiological Entomology 25, 35-40.
9. Woods, HA (1999) Patterns and mechanisms of growth of fifth-instar Manduca sexta caterpillars following exposure to low- or high-protein food during early instars. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72, 445-454.
8. Woods, HA and JG Kingsolver (1999) Feeding rate and the structure of protein digestion and absorption in lepidopteran midguts. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 42, 74-87.
7. Woods, HA and ME Chamberlin (1999) Effects of dietary protein concentration on L-proline transport by Manduca sexta midgut. Journal of Insect Physiology 45, 735-741.
6. Woods, HA (1999) Egg-mass size and cell size: effects of temperature on oxygen distribution. American Zoologist 39, 244-252.
5. Kingsolver, JG and HA Woods (1998) Interactions of temperature and dietary protein concentration in growth and feeding of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Physiological Entomology 23, 354-359.
4. Woods, HA and RL DeSilets, Jr. (1997) Egg-mass gel of Melanochlamys diomedea (Bergh) protects embryos from low salinity. Biological Bulletin 193, 341-349.
3. Kingsolver, JG and HA Woods (1997) Thermal sensitivity of growth and feeding in Manduca sexta caterpillars. Physiological Zoology 70, 631-638.
2. Quattro, JM, DD Pollock, M Powell, HA Woods, and DA Powers (1995) Evolutionary relations among vertebrate muscle-type lactate dehydrogenases. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 4, 224-231.