Patrick Meir

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Personal Chair in Ecosystem Science, School of GeoSciences

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Current Research Interests

Ecosystem science; carbon-water relationship of plants and ecosystems; terrestrial carbon cycle; tropical forests. Project funding includes NERC, EU, The Royal Society, NSF, UNEP and FAO.

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Effects of natural and experimental drought on soil fungi and biogeochemistry in an Amazon rain forest
Buscardo, E., Souza, R. C., Meir, P., Geml, J., Schmidt, S. K., Da Costa, A. C. L. & Nagy, L., 10 Mar 2021, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 2, 1
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Acclimation of leaf respiration temperature responses across thermally contrasting biomes
Zhu, L., Bloomfield, K. J., Asao, S., Tjoelker, M. G., Egerton, J. J. G., Hayes, L., Weerasinghe, L. K., Creek, D., Griffin, K. L., Hurry, V., Liddell, M., Meir, P., Turnbull, M. & Atkin, O. K., 15 Sep 2020, In: New Phytologist.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Amazonian trees have limited capacity to acclimate plant hydraulic properties in response to long‐term drought
Bittencourt, P. R. L., Oliveira, R. S., da Costa, A. C. L., Giles, A. L., Coughlin, I., Costa, P. B., Bartholomew, D. C., Ferreira, L. V., Vasconcelos, S. S., Barros, F. V., Junior, J. A. S., Oliveira, A. A. R., Mencuccini, M., Meir, P. & Rowland, L., 14 Feb 2020, In: Global Change Biology.
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Canopy wetness in the Eastern Amazon
Binks, O., Finnigan, J., Coughlin, I., Disney, M., Calders, K., Burt, A., Vicari, M. B., Da Costa, A. L., Mencuccini, M. & Meir, P., 24 Nov 2020, In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. p. 108250
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Does Economic Optimisation Explain LAI and Leaf Trait Distributions Across an Amazon Soil Moisture Gradient?
Flack‐prain, S., Meir, P., Malhi, Y., Smallman, T. L. & Williams, M., 26 Sep 2020, In: Global Change Biology.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2 Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
1 Invited talk

Public communication of science -‘Tropical forests, climate and deforestation’
Patrick Meir (Speaker)
1 Jan 2012
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Andes Biodversity Consortium Science Meeting and Knowledge Exchange Workshop.
Patrick Meir (Chair)
1 Oct 2012
Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
Andes Biodiversity Consortium Knowledge Exchange workshop
Patrick Meir (Chair)
20 Feb 2009
Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

1 Active
33 Finished

Can tropical Montane forest Acclimate to high temperature? Montane-Acclim
Meir, P.
NERC
1/10/17 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
CSSP Brazil BZL7: Ecosystem responses to extremes - field experiments to support model development
Meir, P.
UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities
1/08/19 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
The multi-year impacts of the 2015/2016 El Nino on the carbon cycle of tropical forests
Meir, P.
NERC
1/12/16 → 30/11/19
Project: Research
Linking biotic attack with tree mortality & canopy condition in droughted tropical rainforest
Meir, P.
NERC
14/04/16 → 15/12/18
Project: Research
The Amazon Fertilisation Experiment (AFEX)
Meir, P.
NERC
1/08/14 → 31/12/20
Project: Research

The importance of physiological, structural and trait responses to drought stress in driving spatial and temporal variation in GPP across Amazon forests
Flack-Prain, S. (Creator), Meir, P. (Creator), Malhi, Y. (Creator), Smallman, L. (Creator) & Williams, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 15 Nov 2019
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2710
Dataset
Does Economic Optimisation Explain LAI and Leaf Trait Distributions Across an Amazon Soil Moisture Gradient?
Flack-Prain, S. (Creator), Meir, P. (Creator), Malhi, Y. (Creator), Smallman, L. (Creator) & Williams, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 18 Sep 2020
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2925
Dataset

Tall trees most at risk of rainforest drought, finds Lucy Rowland
Lucy Rowland & Patrick Meir
24/11/15
8 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Reference to research by professor Patrick Meir, showing some Amazon rainforest trees are more vulnerable to drought than others
Patrick Meir
20/08/13
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research