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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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Heterogeneous thermal tolerance of dominant Andean montane tree species
Restrepo, Z., González-Caro, S., Hartley, I. P., Villegas, J. C., Meir, P., Sanchez, A., Ruiz Carrascal, D. & Mercado, L. M., 17 Feb 2025, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 6, 1, 117.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Photosynthetic responses to temperature across the tropics: a meta-analytic approach
Carter, K. R., Cavaleri, M. A., Atkin, O. K., Bahar, N. H. A., Cheesman, A. W., Choury, Z., Crous, K. Y., Doughty, C. E., Dusenge, M. E., Ely, K. S., Evans, J. R., Fonseca da silva, J., Mau, A. C., Medlyn, B. E., Meir, P., Norby, R. J., Read, J., Reed, S. C., Reich, P. B. & Rogers, A. & 10 others, , 12 Dec 2024, In: Annals of Botany.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Leaf nonstructural carbohydrate residence time, not concentration, correlates with leaf functional traits following the leaf economic spectrum in woody plants
Asao, S., Way, D. A., Turnbull, M. H., Stitt, M., Mcdowell, N. G., Reich, P. B., Bloomfield, K. J., Zaragoza‐castells, J., Creek, D., O'sullivan, O., Crous, K. Y., Egerton, J. J. G., Mirotchnick, N., Weerasinghe, L. K., Griffin, K. L., Hurry, V., Meir, P., Sitch, S. & Atkin, O. K., 8 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: New Phytologist.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Theoretical Framework to Quantify Ecosystem Pressure‐Volume Relationships
Binks, O., Meir, P., Konings, A. G., Cernusak, L., Christoffersen, B. O., Anderegg, W. R. L., Wood, J., Sack, L., Martinez‐vilalta, J. & Mencuccini, M., 1 Nov 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 11, e17567.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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New tree height allometries derived from terrestrial laser scanning reveal substantial discrepancies with forest inventory methods in tropical rainforests
Terryn, L., Calders, K., Meunier, F., Bauters, M., Boeckx, P., Brede, B., Burt, A., Chave, J., Da costa, A. C. L., D'hont, B., Disney, M., Jucker, T., Lau, A., Laurance, S. G. W., Maeda, E. E., Meir, P., Krishna moorthy, S. M., Nunes, M. H., Shenkin, A. & Sibret, T. & 3 others, , 19 Aug 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 8, e17473.Research 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.
Meir, P. (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’
Meir, P. (Speaker)
1 Jan 2012Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Andes Biodiversity Consortium Knowledge Exchange workshop
Meir, P. (Chair)
20 Feb 2009Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Assessing the robustness of mixed species planting as a drought adaptation measure during early stage establishment - an experimental approach
Nichol, C. (Principal Investigator) & Meir, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/25 → 31/03/28
Project: Research
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Amazon-SOS: a Safe Operating Space for Amazonian Forests
Meir, P. (Principal Investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/02/24 → 31/07/28
Project: Research
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Ghosts from summers past: quantifying the role of vegetation legacy to climatic extremes
Meir, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/03/23 → 28/02/26
Project: Research
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Patrick Meir NERC - Sensitivity of Tropical Forest to Heat Stress - Trop - Heat
Meir, P. (Principal Investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/10/22 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
Datasets
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Data from: A theoretical framework to quantify ecosystem pressure-volume relationships
Binks, O. (Creator), Cernusak, L. (Creator) & Meir, P. (Creator), Dryad, 4 Nov 2024
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qrfj6q5p7, https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15539
Dataset
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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 Sept 2020
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2925
Dataset
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Data from: Shock and stabilisation following long-term drought in tropical forest from 15 years of litterfall dynamics
Rowland, L. (Creator), Da Costa, A. C. L. (Creator), Oliveira, A. A. R. (Creator), Almeida, S. S. (Creator), Ferreira, L. V. (Creator), Malhi, Y. (Creator), Metcalfe, D. B. (Creator), Mencuccini, M. (Creator), Grace, J. (Creator) & Meir, P. (Creator), Dryad, 9 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qm3gb, https://zenodo.org/records/4978705
Dataset
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Tree_Allometry_Discrepancies
Terryn, L. (Creator), Calders, K. (Creator), Verbeeck, H. (Creator), Félicien, M. (Contributor), Bauters, M. (Contributor), Boeckx, P. (Contributor), Brede, B. (Contributor), Andy, B. (Contributor), Chave, J. (Contributor), D'Hont, B. (Contributor), Disney, M. (Contributor), Jucker, T. (Contributor), Lau, A. (Contributor), Laurance, S. G. W. (Contributor), Maeda, E. E. (Contributor), Meir, P. (Contributor), Moorthy, S. M. K. (Contributor), Nunes, M. H. (Contributor), Shenkin, A. (Contributor), Sibret, T. (Contributor), Verhelst, T. E. (Contributor) & Wilkes, P. (Contributor), Zenodo, 1 Aug 2024
Dataset
Press/Media
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Tall trees most at risk of rainforest drought, finds Lucy Rowland
Rowland, L. & Meir, P.
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