List of works - Patrick Meir

A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region

A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

A novel application of satellite radar data: measuring carbon sequestration and detecting degradation in a community forestry project in Mozambique

scholarly article by E.T.A. Mitchard et al published 5 November 2012 in Plant Ecology and Diversity

A test of the 'one-point method' for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field-measured, light-saturated photosynthesis

scientific article

Acclimation of leaf respiration temperature responses across thermally contrasting biomes

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Adaptation of soil microbial growth to temperature: using a tropical elevation gradient to predict future changes

scientific article published on 06 January 2019

After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration

scientific article

An empirical method that separates irreversible stem radial growth from bark water content changes in trees: theory and case studies.

scientific article published on 12 November 2016

Annual variation in soil respiration and its component parts in two structurally contrasting woody savannas in Central Brazil

article

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

scientific article

Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

article

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

article

Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Balancing the risks of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation: a twig scale analysis in declining Scots pine.

scientific article

Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances ⬇️

scientific article

Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?

article

Climate Warming and Soil Carbon in Tropical Forests: Insights from an Elevation Gradient in the Peruvian Andes

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands

scientific article

Complex controls on nitrous oxide flux across a large-elevation gradient in the tropical Peruvian Andes

scientific article published in 2017

Complex controls on nitrous oxide flux across a long elevation gradient in the tropical Peruvian Andes

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

scientific article

Convergence in the temperature response of leaf respiration across biomes and plant functional types

scientific article

Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees

scientific article

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Drivers of atmospheric methane uptake by montane forest soils in the southern Peruvian Andes

scientific article published in 2016

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2009)

Drought stress and tree size determine stem CO2 efflux in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

scientific article published on August 2010

Drought-related tree mortality: addressing the gaps in understanding and prediction

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Ecosystem Carbon Storage Across the Grassland–Forest Transition in the High Andes of Manu National Park, Peru

article

Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8–10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest

scientific article published in 2013

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Environmental distribution and abundance of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella

scientific article

Evidence for strong seasonality in the carbon storage and carbon use efficiency of an Amazonian forest

scientific article

Evidence from Amazonian forests is consistent with isohydric control of leaf water potential

scientific article published on February 2006

Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

scientific article

Forests, carbon and global climate

scientific article

Fusing radar and optical remote sensing for biomass prediction in mountainous tropical forests

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems

scientific article published in 2018

How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water-use efficiency compare?

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Identifying areas at risk of drought-induced tree mortality across South-Eastern Australia

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Impacts of experimentally imposed drought on leaf respiration and morphology in an Amazon rain forest

scholarly article by Daniel B Metcalfe et al published 28 January 2010 in Functional Ecology

Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Improving representation of leaf respiration in large-scale predictive climate-vegetation models

scientific article published in May 2014

Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models

article

Large contribution of recent photosynthate to soil respiration in tropical dipterocarp forest revealed by girdling

scientific article published on 31 October 2021

Leaf water storage increases with salinity and aridity in the mangrove Avicennia marina: integration of leaf structure, osmotic adjustment and access to multiple water sources

scientific article

Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru ⬇️

scientific article

Light inhibition of leaf respiration as soil fertility declines along a post-glacial chronosequence in New Zealand: an analysis using the Kok method

article

Limited acclimation in leaf anatomy to experimental drought in tropical rainforest trees

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro) ⬇️

article

Linking plant hydraulics and beta diversity in tropical forests

scientific article

Litter contribution to diurnal and annual soil respiration in a tropical montane cloud forest

Long-term forest-savannah dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon: implications for conservation

scientific article (publication date: 28 February 2007)

Manipulative experiments demonstrate how long-term soil moisture changes alter controls of plant water use

article

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

scientific article published in April 2011

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

article published in 2018

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

scientific article published in 2018

Microbial carbon mineralization in tropical lowland and montane forest soils of Peru

scientific article

Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient

scientific article

Modelling Amazonian forest eddy covariance data: a comparison of big leaf versus sun/shade models for the C-14 tower at Manaus I. Canopy photosynthesis

scholarly article by Lina Mercado et al published March 2006 in Acta Amazonica

Modelling tropical forest responses to drought and El Niño with a stomatal optimization model based on xylem hydraulics

article

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

scientific article

Nitrogen and phosphorus availabilities interact to modulate leaf trait scaling relationships across six plant functional types in a controlled-environment study

scientific article

No Differences in Soil Carbon Stocks Across the Tree Line in the Peruvian Andes

article

Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3,000-m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

scientific article published on 24 November 2012

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

article

Photosynthetic parameters, dark respiration and leaf traits in the canopy of a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest ⬇️

scientific article published on July 21, 2011

Plant traits controlling growth change in response to a drier climate

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought

scientific article

Plumbing the depths: extracellular water storage in specialized leaf structures and its functional expression in a three-domain pressure -volume relationship

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Productivity and carbon allocation in a tropical montane cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes

article

Rapid responses of root traits and productivity to phosphorus and cation additions in a tropical lowland forest in Amazonia

scientific article published on 20 December 2020

Reply to Adams et al.: Empirical versus process-based approaches to modeling temperature responses of leaf respiration

scientific article published on 04 October 2016

Respiration in wood: integrating across tissues, functions and scales

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Revisiting plant hydrological niches: The importance of atmospheric resources for ground‐rooted plants

scientific article published in 2022

Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth

scientific article published on 24 September 2023

Sample sizes for estimating key ecosystem characteristics in a tropical terra firme rainforest

article

Scaling leaf respiration with nitrogen and phosphorus in tropical forests across two continents ⬇️

scientific article

Seasonal production, allocation and cycling of carbon in two mid-elevation tropical montane forest plots in the Peruvian Andes

article

Seasonal trends of Amazonian rainforest phenology, net primary productivity, and carbon allocation

scholarly article by Cécile A. J. Girardin et al published May 2016 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Seedling growth declines in warmed tropical forest soils

scientific article published in 2023

Separating species and environmental determinants of leaf functional traits in temperate rainforest plants along a soil-development chronosequence

article

Shock and stabilisation following long-term drought in tropical forest from 15 years of litterfall dynamics

scientific article published in 2018

Short-term effects of drought on tropical forest do not fully predict impacts of repeated or long-term drought: gas exchange versus growth

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

scholarly article by Chris Huntingford et al published 10 March 2013 in Nature Geoscience

Soil CO2 efflux in a tropical forest in the central Amazon

article

Soil carbon and microbes in the warming tropics

scientific article published in 2022

Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient ⬇️

scientific article

Source to sink: Evolution of lignin composition in the Madre de Dios River system with connection to the Amazon basin and offshore

article

Stand dynamics modulate water cycling and mortality risk in droughted tropical forest

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Temperature sensitivity of soil enzymes along an elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

Temporal variation and climate dependence of soil respiration and its components along a 3000 m altitudinal tropical forest gradient

The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest

scholarly article by Daniel B Metcalfe et al published 12 July 2008 in Plant and Soil

The influence of terrestrial ecosystems on climate

scientific article

The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of two lowland tropical forest plots in south-western Amazonia, Peru

scientific article published in 2013

The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Thermal limits of leaf metabolism across biomes

scientific article

Thirty-eight years of CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization has outpaced growing aridity to drive greening of Australian woody ecosystems

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

Threshold Responses to Soil Moisture Deficit by Trees and Soil in Tropical Rain Forests: Insights from Field Experiments

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Towards species‐level forecasts of drought‐induced tree mortality risk

scientific article published on 01 April 2022

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Tropical ant community responses to experimental soil warming

scientific article published in 2022

What controls variation in carbon use efficiency among Amazonian tropical forests? ⬇️

‘Forests, instruments and ideas’ – a tribute to John Grace's career

article by Patrick Meir et al published March 2013 in Plant Ecology and Diversity

List of works by Patrick Meir

A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region

A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region ⬇️

A novel application of satellite radar data: measuring carbon sequestration and detecting degradation in a community forestry project in Mozambique

A test of the 'one-point method' for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field-measured, light-saturated photosynthesis

Acclimation of leaf respiration temperature responses across thermally contrasting biomes

Adaptation of soil microbial growth to temperature: using a tropical elevation gradient to predict future changes

After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration

An empirical method that separates irreversible stem radial growth from bark water content changes in trees: theory and case studies.

Annual variation in soil respiration and its component parts in two structurally contrasting woody savannas in Central Brazil

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

Balancing the risks of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation: a twig scale analysis in declining Scots pine.

Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances ⬇️

Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon

Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?

Climate Warming and Soil Carbon in Tropical Forests: Insights from an Elevation Gradient in the Peruvian Andes

Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands

Complex controls on nitrous oxide flux across a large-elevation gradient in the tropical Peruvian Andes

Complex controls on nitrous oxide flux across a long elevation gradient in the tropical Peruvian Andes

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

Convergence in the temperature response of leaf respiration across biomes and plant functional types

Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests ⬇️

Drivers of atmospheric methane uptake by montane forest soils in the southern Peruvian Andes

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

Drought stress and tree size determine stem CO2 efflux in a tropical forest

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

Drought-related tree mortality: addressing the gaps in understanding and prediction

ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics

Ecosystem Carbon Storage Across the Grassland–Forest Transition in the High Andes of Manu National Park, Peru

Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8–10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

Environmental distribution and abundance of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella

Evidence for strong seasonality in the carbon storage and carbon use efficiency of an Amazonian forest

Evidence from Amazonian forests is consistent with isohydric control of leaf water potential

Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

Forests, carbon and global climate

Fusing radar and optical remote sensing for biomass prediction in mountainous tropical forests

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems

How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water-use efficiency compare?

Identifying areas at risk of drought-induced tree mortality across South-Eastern Australia

Impacts of experimentally imposed drought on leaf respiration and morphology in an Amazon rain forest

Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate

Improving representation of leaf respiration in large-scale predictive climate-vegetation models

Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models

Large contribution of recent photosynthate to soil respiration in tropical dipterocarp forest revealed by girdling

Leaf water storage increases with salinity and aridity in the mangrove Avicennia marina: integration of leaf structure, osmotic adjustment and access to multiple water sources

Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru ⬇️

Light inhibition of leaf respiration as soil fertility declines along a post-glacial chronosequence in New Zealand: an analysis using the Kok method

Limited acclimation in leaf anatomy to experimental drought in tropical rainforest trees

Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro) ⬇️

Linking plant hydraulics and beta diversity in tropical forests

Litter contribution to diurnal and annual soil respiration in a tropical montane cloud forest

Long-term forest-savannah dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon: implications for conservation

Manipulative experiments demonstrate how long-term soil moisture changes alter controls of plant water use

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites ⬇️

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

Microbial carbon mineralization in tropical lowland and montane forest soils of Peru

Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient

Modelling Amazonian forest eddy covariance data: a comparison of big leaf versus sun/shade models for the C-14 tower at Manaus I. Canopy photosynthesis

Modelling tropical forest responses to drought and El Niño with a stomatal optimization model based on xylem hydraulics

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

Nitrogen and phosphorus availabilities interact to modulate leaf trait scaling relationships across six plant functional types in a controlled-environment study

No Differences in Soil Carbon Stocks Across the Tree Line in the Peruvian Andes

Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3,000-m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

Photosynthetic parameters, dark respiration and leaf traits in the canopy of a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest ⬇️

Plant traits controlling growth change in response to a drier climate

Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought

Plumbing the depths: extracellular water storage in specialized leaf structures and its functional expression in a three-domain pressure -volume relationship

Productivity and carbon allocation in a tropical montane cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes

Rapid responses of root traits and productivity to phosphorus and cation additions in a tropical lowland forest in Amazonia