Dr. Adriana Costa

de Andrade, G. M., Matos, T. S., dos Santos, L. d., de Brito, D. Y., Souza, L. V., Braga Júnior, M. M., Andrade, F. W., Vieira, A. L., Costa, A., Melo, L. E. 2026. Anatomical Predictors of Density and Hardness in Underutilized Amazonian Woods: A Basis for Substituting Commercial Timbers. Forest Products Journal 76(1).

Spessert, K., Owens, F. C., Costa, A., Ebeheakey, A. A., Widenhoeft, A. C. 2025. WhatWood? Ghana Edition: Enhancing a wood identification field manual with smartphone functionality. Forest Products Journal 75(3):258-270.

Spessert, K., Owens, F. C., Costa, A., Arevalo, R., Widenhoeft, A. C. 2025. Democratizing essential wood identification information for Central American timber markets with an ergonomically-designed, interactive, bilingual smartphone app. Wood and Fiber Science 57(4):157-177.

Costa, A., Owens, F. C., Soares, R. K., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2025. Fraud and Misrepresentation in the Lump Charcoal Market in the United States: A Closer Look Inside the Bag. Forest Products Journal 75(2):164-178.

Wiedenhoeft , A. C., Owens, F. C., Ravindran, P., Costa, A., Shmulsky, R. 2025. Delving into the porosity domain continuum in hardwood growth rings: What can we learn from computer vision wood identification models?. BioResources 20(2):3002-3023.

Owens, F. C., Ravidran, P., Costa, A., Chavesta, M., Montenegro, R., Shmulsky, R., Wiedenhoeft , A. C. 2025. Robustness of a Macroscopic Computer-Vision Wood Identification Model to Digital Perturbations of Test Images. IAWA Journal 46(1):131-146.

Owens, F. C., Ravindran, P., Costa, A., Shmulsky, R., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2024. Predicting Hardwood Porosity Domains: Toward Cascading Computer-Vision Wood Identification Models. Bioresources 19(4):9741 – 9772.

França, T. S., França, F. J., Arango, R. A., Costa, A., Ogunruku, M. 2024. Properties of African Mahogany Wood Commercially Available in the United States. Forest Products Journal 73(4):339-349.

Ravindran, P., Owens, F. C., Costa, A., Pollastrelli Rodrigues, B., Chavesta, M., Montenegro, R., Shmulsky, R., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2023. Evaluation of test specimen surface preparation on macroscopic computer vision wood identification. Wood and Fiber Science 55(2):176-202.

Costa, A., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2023. On the possible functions of helical thickenings in conductive cells in wood. IAWA Journal 44(3-4):381-398.

Costa, A., Giraldo, G., Bishell, A., He, T., Kirker, G., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2022. Organellar microcapture to extract nuclear and plastid DNA from recalcitrant wood specimens and trace evidence. Plant Methods 18(51).

Ravindran, P., Costa, A., Soares, R., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2018. Classification of CITES-listed and other neotropical Meliaceae wood images using convolutional neural networks. Plant Methods 14(1).

Snel, F. A., Braga, J. W., da Silva, D., Wiedenhoeft, A. C., Costa, A., Soares, R., Coradin, V. T., Pastore, T. C. 2018. Potential field-deployable NIRS identification of seven Dalbergia species listed by CITES. Wood Science and Technology 52(5):1411-1427.

Zelinka, S. L., Bourne, K. J., Hermanson, J. C., Glass, S. V., Costa, A., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2015. Force–displacement measurements of earlywood bordered pits using a mesomechanical tester. Plant, Cell & Environment 38(10):2088-2097.