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Prof Patrick Meir

Personal Chair in Ecosystem Science

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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. Head of the School of GeoSciences' Centre for Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS) Research Group.

Research outputs

  1. Amazonian trees have limited capacity to acclimate plant hydraulic properties in response to long‐term drought

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  2. Rainfall‐manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand?

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  3. Respiration in wood: integrating across tissues, functions and scales

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

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Research activities & awards

  1. Andes Biodversity Consortium Science Meeting and Knowledge Exchange Workshop.

    Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

  2. Public communication of science -‘Tropical forests, climate and deforestation’

    Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

  3. Andes Biodiversity Consortium Knowledge Exchange workshop

    Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

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Research projects

  1. CSSP Brazil BZL7: Ecosystem responses to extremes - field experiments to support model development

    Project: Research

  2. Can tropical Montane forest Acclimate to high temperature? Montane-Acclim

    Project: Research

  3. The multi-year impacts of the 2015/2016 El Nino on the carbon cycle of tropical forests

    Project: Research

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Research press coverage

  1. Tall trees most at risk of rainforest drought, finds Lucy Rowland

    Press/Media: Research

  2. Reference to research by professor Patrick Meir, showing some Amazon rainforest trees are more vulnerable to drought than others

    Press/Media: Research

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Latest datasets

  1. The importance of physiological, structural and trait responses to drought stress in driving spatial and temporal variation in GPP across Amazon forests

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