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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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Forest fluxes and mortality response to drought: model description (ORCHIDEE-CAN-NHA r7236) and evaluation at the Caxiuanã drought experiment
Yao, Y., Joetzjer, E., Ciais, P., Viovy, N., Cresto Aleina, F., Chave, J., Sack, L., Bartlett, M., Meir, P., Fisher, R. & Luyssaert, S., 24 Oct 2022, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 15, 20, p. 7809-7833Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Microbial diversity decline and community response are decoupled from increased respiration in warmed tropical forest soil
Nottingham, A., Scott, J. J., Saltonstall, K., Broders, K., Montero-Sanchez, M., Püspök, J., Bååth, E. & Meir, P., 1 Oct 2022, In: Nature Microbiology. 7, p. 1650–1660Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world
Ellsworth, D., Crous, K., De Kauwe, M., Verryckt, L., Goll, D., Zaehle, S., Bloomfield, K., Ciais, P., Cernusak, L., Domingues, T., Dusenge, E., Garcia, S., Guerrieri, R., Ishida, F. Y., Janssens, I., Kenzo, T., Ichie, T., Medlyn, B., Meir, P., Norby, R., & 11 others, 25 Aug 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 5005.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity
Cunha, H. F. V., Anderson, K. M., Lugli, L. F., Santana, F. D., Aleixo, I., Martins Moraes, A., Garcia, S., Di Ponzio, R., Oblitas Mendoza, E., Brum, B., Schmeisk Rosa, J., Cordeiro, A. L., Portela, B. T. T., Ribeiro, G., Deambrozi Coelho, S., Trierveiler de Souza, S., Siebert Silva, L., Antonieto, F., Pires, M., Salomao, A. C., & 11 others, 10 Aug 2022, In: Nature. 608, p. 558–562Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Towards species‐level forecasts of drought‐induced tree mortality risk
De Kauwe, M. G., Sabot, M. E. B., Medlyn, B. E., Pitman, A. J., Meir, P., Cernusak, L. A., Gallagher, R. V., Ukkola, A. M., Rifai, S. W. & Choat, B., 1 Jul 2022, In: New Phytologist. 235, 1, p. 94-110Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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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 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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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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NSFDEB-NERC: Understanding drought and post-drought legacy effects in tropical forest
1/07/22 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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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
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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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
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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