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Research output per year
Personal profile
Current Research Interests
Ecosystem science. Forests and global change; carbon-water-biodiversity-land use relationships of plants, soils and ecosystems; tropical and temperate forests, and their roles in the Earth system and society. Funding includes NERC, EU, The Royal Society, NSF, FCDO (/DfID), UNEP, FAO and ARC.
Chair of Ecosystem Science & Royal Society Wolfson Fellow, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh UK
Honorary Professor of Forest Ecosystems, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Director of the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS), School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Australian Research Council Professorial Future Fellow
Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow
Royal Society of London Millennium Fellow
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Soil carbon and microbes in the warming tropics
Nottingham, A. T., Gloor, E., Bååth, E. & Meir, P., 7 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Functional Ecology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Large contribution of recent photosynthate to soil respiration in tropical dipterocarp forest revealed by girdling
Nottingham, A. T., Cheesman, A. W., Riutta, T., Doughty, C. E., Telford, E., Huaraca Huasco, W., Svátek, M., Kvasnica, J., Majalap, N., Malhi, Y., Meir, P. & Arn Teh, Y., 9 Feb 2022, In: Journal of Ecology. 110, 2, p. 387-403Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Forest system hydraulic conductance: partitioning tree and soil components
Binks, O., Cernusak, L. A., Liddell, M., Bradford, M., Coughlin, I., Carle, H., Bryant, C., Dunn, E., Oliveira, R., Mencuccini, M. & Meir, P., 1 Feb 2022, In: New Phytologist. 233, 4, p. 1667-1681Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Thirty-eight years of CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization has outpaced growing aridity to drive greening of Australian woody ecosystems
Rifai, S. W., De Kauwe, M. G., Ukkola, A. M., Cernusak, L. A., Meir, P., Medlyn, B. E. & Pitman, A. J., 28 Jan 2022, In: Biogeosciences. 19, 2, p. 491-515Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content
Konings, A. G., Saatchi, S. S., Frankenberg, C., Keller, M., Leshyk, V., Anderegg, W. R. L., Humphrey, V., Matheny, A. M., Trugman, A., Sack, L., Agee, E., Barnes, M. L., Binks, O., Cawse‐nicholson, K., Christoffersen, B. O., Entekhabi, D., Gentine, P., Holtzman, N. M., Katul, G. G., Liu, Y. & 16 others, , 1 Dec 2021, In: Global Change Biology. 27, 23, p. 6005-6024Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Andes Biodversity Consortium Science Meeting and Knowledge Exchange Workshop.
Patrick Meir (Chair)
1 Oct 2012Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Public communication of science -‘Tropical forests, climate and deforestation’
Patrick Meir (Speaker)
1 Jan 2012Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Andes Biodiversity Consortium Knowledge Exchange workshop
Patrick Meir (Chair)
20 Feb 2009Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Detecting and understanding the responses of tropical rainforest to drought, and the long-term legacy
31/10/21 → 30/10/26
Project: Research
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Can tropical Montane forest Acclimate to high temperature? Montane-Acclim
1/10/17 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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The multi-year impacts of the 2015/2016 El Nino on the carbon cycle of tropical forests
1/12/16 → 30/11/19
Project: Research
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Linking biotic attack with tree mortality & canopy condition in droughted tropical rainforest
14/04/16 → 15/12/18
Project: Research
Datasets
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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
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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
Press / Media
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Reference to research by professor Patrick Meir, showing some Amazon rainforest trees are more vulnerable to drought than others
20/08/13
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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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