Publications

• Rowland, L, Zaragoza-Castells, J, Bloomfield, K et al 2017, 'Scaling leaf respiration with nitrogen and phosphorus in tropical forests across two continents', New Phytologist, vol. 214, no. 3, pp. 1064-1077.
• Abdul Bahar, N, Ishida, F, Kohontissa Wasala, L et al. 2017, 'Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru', New Phytologist, vol. 214, no. 3, pp. 1002-1018.
• O'Sullivan, O, Heskel, M, Reich, P et al. 2017, 'Thermal limits of leaf metabolism across biomes', Global Change Biology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 209-223.
• Malhi, Y, Girardin, C, Goldsmith, G et al. 2017, 'The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: A whole carbon budget perspective', New Phytologist, vol. 214, no. 3, pp. 1019-1032pp.
• Fyllas, N, Bentley, L, Shenkin, A et al. 2017, 'Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient', Ecology Letters, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 730-740pp.
• Nguyen, H, Meir, P, Sack, L et al. 2017, 'Leaf water storage increases with salinity and aridity in the mangrove Avicennia marina: integration of leaf structure, osmotic adjustment, and access to multiple water sources', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1576-1591.
• Medlyn, B, De Kauwe, M, Lin, Y et al 2017, 'How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water-use efficiency compare?', New Phytologist, vol. Online, pp. 1-13pp.
• Mencuccini, M, Salmon, Y, Mitchell, P et al 2017, 'An empirical method that separates irreversible stem radial growth from bark water content changes in trees: theory and case studies', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 290-303pp.
• Christoffersen, B, Meir, P & McDowell, N 2017, 'Linking plant hydraulics and beta diversity in tropical forests', New Phytologist, vol. 215, no. 1, pp. 12-14pp.
• Powell, T, Wheeler, J, de Oliveira, A et al 2017, 'Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees', Global Change Biology, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 4280-4293pp.
• Nguyen, H, Meir, P, Wolfe, J et al. 2017, 'Plumbing the depths: extracellular water storage in specialized leaf structures and its functional expression in a three-domain pressure-volume relationship', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1021-1038pp.
• Crous, K, O'Sullivan, O, Zaragoza-Castells, J et al. 2017, 'Nitrogen and phosphorus availabilities interact to modulate leaf trait scaling relationships across six plant functional types in a controlled-environment study', New Phytologist, vol. 215, no. 3, pp. 992-1008pp..
• Kruijt, B, Meir, P, Johnson, M et al 2016, 'Modelling Amazonian Carbon Budgets and Vegetation Dynamics in a Changing Climate', in Laszlo Nagy • Bruce R. Forsberg • Paulo Artaxo (ed.), Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin, Springer, Berlin, pp. 331-366pp.
• Binks, O, Meir, P, Rowland, L et al 2016, 'Limited acclimation in leaf anatomy to experimental drought in tropical rainforest trees', Tree Physiology, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 1550-1561pp.
• Christoffersen, B, Gloor, M, Fauset, S et al 2016, 'Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro)', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 4227-4255pp.
• Binks, O, Meir, P, Rowland, L et al 2016, 'Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought', New Phytologist, vol. 211, no. 2, pp. 477-488pp.
• Turnbull, M, Griffin, K, Fyllas, N et al 2016, 'Separating species and environmental determinants of leaf functional traits in temperate rainforest plants along a soil-development chronosequence', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 751-765.
• Heskel, M, Atkin, O, O'Sullivan, O et al. 2016, 'REPLY TO ADAMS ET AL.: Empirical versus process-based approaches to modeling temperature responses of leaf respiration', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 113, no. 41, pp. E5996-E5997.
• Christoffersen, B, Gloor, M, Fauset, S et al 2016, 'Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro)', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 4227-4255.
• Binks, O, Meir, P, Rowland, L et al 2016, 'Limited acclimation in leaf anatomy to experimental drought in tropical rainforest trees', Tree Physiology, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 1550-1561pp.
• Heskel, M, O'Sullivan, O, Reich, P et al. 2016, 'Convergence in the temperature response of leaf respiration across biomes and plant functional types', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 113, no. 14, pp. 3832-3837.
• BINKS, O, Meir, P, Rowland, L et al 2016, 'Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought', New Phytologist, vol. 211, no. 2, pp. 477-488.
• De Kauwe, M, Lin , Y, Wright, I et al. 2016, 'A test of the 'one-point method' for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field-measured, light-saturated photosynthesis', New Phytologist, vol. 210, no. 3, pp. 1130-1144.
• Feng, X, Feakins, S, Liu, Z et al. 2016, 'Source to sink: Evolution of lignin composition in the Madre de Dios River system with connection to the Amazon basin and offshore', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 121, no. 5, pp. 1316-1338.
• Girardin, C, Malhi, Y, Doughty, C et al. 2016, 'Seasonal trends of Amazonian rainforest phenology, net primary productivity, and carbon allocation', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 700-715.
• Johnson, M, Galbraith, D, Gloor, M et al 2016, 'Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models', Global Change Biology, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 3996-4013pp.
• Jones, S, Diem, T, Huaraca- Quispe, L et al 2016, 'Drivers of atmospheric methane uptake by montane forest soils in the southern Peruvian Andes', Biogeosciences, vol. 13, no. 14, pp. 4151-4165.
• Nottingham, A, Turner, B, Whitaker, J et al. 2016, 'Temperature sensitivity of soil enzymes along an elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes', Biogeochemistry, vol. 127, no. 2-3, pp. 217-230.
• Nottingham, A, Turner, B, Whitaker, J et al. 2015, 'Soil microbial nutrient constraints along a tropical forest elevation gradient: A belowground test of a biogeochemical paradigm', Biogeosciences, vol. 12, no. 20, pp. 6071-6083.
• Lin, Y, Medlyn, B, Duursma, R et al 2015, 'Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world', Nature Climate Change, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 459- 464.
• Meir, P, Domingues, T, Ishida, F et al 2015, 'Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon', Oecologia, vol. 178, no. 3, pp. 659-672.
• Nottingham, A, Whitaker, J, Turner, B et al. 2015, 'Climate Warming and Soil Carbon in Tropical Forests: Insights from an Elevation Gradient in the Peruvian Andes', BioScience, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 906-921.
• Meir, P, Wood, T, Galbraith, D et al 2015, 'Threshold Responses to Soil Moisture Deficit by Trees and Soil in Tropical Rain Forests: Insights from Field Experiments', BioScience, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 882-892.
• Hess, L, Meir, P & Bingham, I 2015, 'Comparative assessment of the sensitivity of oilseed rape and wheat to limited water supply', Annals of Applied Biology, vol. 167, no. 1, pp. 102-115.
• Rowland, L, Lobo-do-Vale, R, Christoffersen, B et al 2015, 'After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration', Global Change Biology, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 4662-4672.
• Rowland, L, da Costa, A, Galbraith, D et al 2015, 'Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation', Nature, vol. 528, no. 7580, pp. 119-122pp.
• Rowland, L, Lobo-do-Vale, R, Christoffersen, B et al 2015, 'After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration', Global Change Biology, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 4662-4672pp.
• Rowland, L, da Costa, A, Galbraith, D et al 2015, 'Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation', Nature, vol. 528, no. 7580, pp. 119-122pp.
• Atkin, O, Bloomfield, K, Reich, P et al. 2015, 'Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits', New Phytologist, vol. 206, no. 2, pp. 614-636pp.
• Dahlsjö, C, Parr, C, Malhi, Y et al 2015, 'Density-body mass relationships: Inconsistent intercontinental patterns among termite feeding-groups', Acta Oecologica, vol. 63, pp. 16-21.
• Dahlsjö, C, Parr, C, Malhi, Y et al 2015, 'Describing termite assemblage structure in a Peruvian lowland tropical rain forest: a comparison of two alternative methods', Insectes Sociaux, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 141-150pp.
• Doughty, C, Metclafe, D, Girardin, C et al. 2015, 'Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia', Nature, vol. 519, no. 7541, pp. 78-U140.
• Meir, P, Mencuccini, M & Dewar, R 2015, 'Drought-related tree mortality: Addressing the gaps in understanding and prediction', New Phytologist, vol. 207, no. 1, pp. 28-33.
• Rowland, L, Harper, A, Christoffersen, B et al 2015, 'Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: Similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1097-1110.
• Doughty, C, Metcalfe, D, Girardin, C et al. 2015, 'Source and sink carbon dynamics and carbon allocation in the Amazon basin', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 645-655.
• Malhi, Y, Doughty, C, GOLDSMITH, G et al. 2015, 'The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests', Global Change Biology, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 2283-2295.
• Salmon, Y, Torres-Ruiz, J, Poyatos, R et al 2015, 'Balancing the risks of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation: A twig scale analysis in declining Scots pine', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 2575-2588.
• Pinho, P, Patenaude, G, Ometto, J et al 2014, 'Ecosystem protection and poverty alleviation in the tropics: Perspective from a historical evolution of policy-making in the Brazilian Amazon', Ecosystem Services, vol. 8, pp. 97-109.
• Fisher, J, Patenaude, G, Giri, K et al 2014, 'Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework', Ecosystem Services, vol. 7, pp. 34-45.
• Vicca, S, Bahn, M, Estiarte, M et al 2014, 'Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments', Biogeosciences, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 2991-3013.
• da Costa, A, Metcalfe, D, Doughty, C et al 2014, 'Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8-10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 7-24.
• Vicca, S, Bahn, M, Estiarte, M et al 2014, 'Corrigendum to 'Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments' published in Biogeosciences, 11, 2991-3013, 2014', Biogeosciences, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 3307-3308.
• Whitaker, J, Ostle, N, McNamara, N et al. 2014, 'Microbial carbon mineralization in tropical lowland and montane forest soils of Peru', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 5, pp. 720-720.
• Girardin, C, Malhi, Y, Feeley, K et al. 2014, 'Seasonality of above-ground net primary productivity along an Andean altitudinal transect in Peru', Journal of Tropical Ecology, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 503-519.
• Huasco, W, Girardin, C, Doughty, C et al. 2014, 'Seasonal production, allocation and cycling of carbon in two mid-elevation tropical montane forest plots in the Peruvian Andes', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 125-142.
• Girardin, C, Silva Espejobb, J, Doughty, C et al. 2014, 'Productivity and carbon allocation in a tropical montane cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 107-123.
• Joetzjer, E, Delire, C, Douville, H et al 2014, 'Predicting the response of the Amazon rainforest to persistent drought conditions under current and future climates: A major challenge for global land surface models', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 2933-2950.
• Rowland, L, Malhi, Y, Silva-Espejo, J et al 2014, 'The sensitivity of wood production to seasonal and interannual variations in climate in a lowland Amazonian rainforest', Oecologia, vol. 174, no. 1, pp. 295-306.
• Atkin, O, Meir, P & Turnbull, M 2014, 'Improving representation of leaf respiration in large-scale predictive climate-vegetation models', New Phytologist, vol. 202, no. 3, pp. 743-748.
• Rowland, L, Hill, T, Stahl, C et al 2014, 'Evidence for strong seasonality in the carbon storage and carbon use efficiency of an Amazonian forest', Global Change Biology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 979-991.
• Ometto, J, Aguiar, A, Assis, T et al 2014, 'Amazon forest biomass density maps: Tackling the uncertainty in carbon emission estimates', Climatic Change, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 545-560.
• Malhi, Y, Farfán‑Amézquita, F, Doughty, C et al. 2014, 'The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of two lowland tropical forest plots in south-western Amazonia, Peru', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 85-105.
• Teh, Y, Diem, T, Jones, S et al 2014, 'Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes across an elevation gradient in the tropical Peruvian Andes', Biogeosciences, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 2325-2339.
• Dahlsjö, C, Parr, C, Malhi, Y et al 2014, 'First comparison of quantitative estimates of termite biomass and abundance reveals strong intercontinental differences', Journal of Tropical Ecology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 143-152.
• Whitaker, J, Ostle, N, Nottingham, A et al. 2014, 'Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient', Journal of Ecology, vol. 102, no. 4, pp. 1058-1071.
• Mitchard, E, Feldpausch, T, Brienen, R et al. 2014, 'Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 935-946.
• van de Weg, M, Meir, P, Williams, M et al. 2014, 'Gross Primary Productivity of a High Elevation Tropical Montane Cloud Forest', Ecosystems, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 751-764.
• Dahlsjo, C, Parr, C, Malhi, Y et al 2014, 'Termites promote soil carbon and nitrogen depletion: Results from an in situ macrofauna exclusion experiment, Peru', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 77, pp. 109-111.
• Karhu, K, Auffret, M, Dungait, J et al 2014, 'Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response', Nature, vol. 513, no. 7516, pp. 81-84.
• Huntingford, C, Zelazowski, P, Galbraith, D et al 2013, 'Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO₂-induced climate change', Nature Geoscience, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 268-273.
• Atkin, O, Turnbull, M, Zaragoza-Castells, J et al 2013, 'Light inhibition of leaf respiration as soil fertility declines along a post-glacial chronosequence in New Zealand: An analysis using the Kok method', Plant and Soil, vol. 367, no. 1-2, pp. 163-182.
• Mitchard, E, Meir, P, Ryan, C et al 2013, 'A novel application of satellite radar data: Measuring carbon sequestration and detecting degradation in a community forestry project in Mozambique', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 159-170.
• Meir, P, Mencuccini, M, Williams, M et al 2013, '"Forests, instruments and ideas" - a tribute to John Grace's career', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 3-6.
• Powell, T, Galbraith, D, Christoffersen, B et al 2013, 'Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought', New Phytologist, vol. 200, no. 2, pp. 350-364.
• Meir, P, Rowland, L, Stahl, C et al 2013, 'The Response of Tropical Rainforest Dead Wood Respiration to Seasonal Drought', Ecosystems, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1294-1309.
• Fisher, J, Malhi, Y, Torres, I et al 2013, 'Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3,000-m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes', Oecologia, vol. 172, no. 3, pp. 889-902.
• Silva Junior, J, da Costa, A, De Azevedo, P et al 2013, 'Soil CO2 Efflux in Caxiuan National Forest, Par, during the ESECAFLOR/LBA experiment [Fluxos de CO2 do solo na Floresta Nacional de Caxiuana, Para, durante o experimento ESECAFLOR/LBA]', Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 85-94.
• Fisher, J, Patenaude, G, Meir, P et al 2013, 'Strengthening conceptual foundations: Analysing frameworks for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation research', Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 1098-1111.
• Fedrigo, M, Meir, P, Sheil, D et al 2013, 'Fusing radar and optical remote sensing for biomass prediction in mountainous tropical forests', 2013 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2013, IEEE, Melbourne, VIC, pp. 975-978.
• Meir, P, Maracahipes, L, Marimon, B et al 2013, 'Absorbing roots areas and transpiring leaf areas at the tropical forest and savanna boundary in Brazil', in Perrault, Celeste; Bellamy, Leone (ed.), Savannas: Climate, Biodiversity and Ecological Significance, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Unknown, pp. 107-126.
• Nottingham, A, CCAHUANA, A & Meir, P 2012, 'Soil properties in tropical montane cloud forests influence estimates of soil CO2 efflux', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 166, pp. 215-220.
• Zimmermann, M, Leifeld, J, Conen, F et al 2012, 'Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?', Biogeochemistry, vol. 107, no. 1-3, pp. 423-436.
• Butler, A, Meir, P, Saiz, G et al 2012, 'Annual variation in soil respiration and its component parts in two structurally contrasting woody savannas in Central Brazil', Plant and Soil, vol. 352, no. 1-2, pp. 129-142.
• van de Weg, M, Meir, P, Grace, J et al 2012, 'Photosynthetic parameters, dark respiration and leaf traits in the canopy of a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest', Oecologia, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 23-34.
• Mitchard, E, Saatchi, S, White, L et al 2012, 'Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR in Lope National Park, Gabon: Overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud', Biogeosciences, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 179-191.
• Mitchard, E, Saatchi, S, Lewis, S et al 2011, 'Comment on 'A first map of tropical Africa's above-ground biomass derived from satellite imagery'', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1-6.
• Mitchard, E, Saatchi, S, Lewis, S et al 2011, 'Measuring biomass changes due to woody encroachment and deforestation/degradation in a forest-savanna boundary region of central Africa using multi-temporal L-band radar backscatter', Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 115, no. 11, pp. 2861-2873.
• Salinas, N, Malhi, Y, Meir, P et al 2011, 'The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature: Results from a large-scale leaf translocation experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests', New Phytologist, vol. 189, no. 4, pp. 967-977.
• Feeley, K, Silman, M, Bush, M et al 2011, 'Upslope migration of Andean trees', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 783-791.
• Rahman, M, Crombie, A, Chen, Y et al 2011, 'Environmental distribution and abundance of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella', The International Society of Microbial Ecology, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1061-1066.
• Fierer, N, McCain, C, Meir, P et al. 2011, 'Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals', Ecology, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 797-804.
• van der Molen, M, Dolman, A, Ciais, P et al 2011, 'Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 151, no. 7, pp. 765-773.
• Meir, P & Pennington, R 2011, 'Climatic Change and Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests', in Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Harold A. Mooney, Gerardo Ceballos (ed.), Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Ecology and Conservation, Island Press, United States, pp. 279-300.
• Malhi, Y, Silman, M, Salinas, N et al 2010, 'Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research', Global Change Biology, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 3171-3175.
• Meir, P & Woodward, F 2010, 'Amazonian rain forests and drought: response and vulnerability', New Phytologist, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 553-557.
• Butler, A, BARBIER, N, ÄŒERMÃ?K, J et al 2010, 'Estimates and relationships between aboveground and belowground resource exchange surface areas in a Sitka spruce managed forest', Tree Physiology, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 705-714.
• Metcalfe, D, Meir, P, Arageo, L et al 2010, 'Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon', New Phytologist, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 608-621.
• Metcalfe, D, Lobo-do-Vale, R, Chaves, M et al 2010, 'Impacts of experimentally imposed drought on leaf respiration and morphology in an Amazon rain forest', Functional Ecology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 524-533.
• ZIMMERMANN, M, Meir, P, Silman, M et al 2010, 'No differences in soil carbon stocks across the tree line in the Peruvian Andes', Ecosystems, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 62-74.
• Gibbon, A, Silman, M, Malhi, Y et al 2010, 'Ecosystem Carbon Storage Across the Grassland-Forest Transition in the High Andes of Manu National Park, Peru', Ecosystems, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 1097-1111.
• Domingues, T, Meir, P, Feldpausch, T et al 2010, 'Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 959-980.
• ZIMMERMANN, M, Meir, P, Bird, M et al 2010, 'Temporal variation and climate dependence of soil respiration and its components along a 3000 m altitudinal tropical forest gradient', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 24, no. 4.
• Galbraith, D, Levy, P, Huntingford, C et al 2010, 'Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change', New Phytologist, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 647-665.
• Fisher, R, McDowell, N, Purves, D et al 2010, 'Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations', New Phytologist, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 666-681.
• da Costa, A, Galbraith, D, Almeida, S et al 2010, 'Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest', New Phytologist, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 579-591.
• Phillips, O, van der Heijden, G, Lewis, S et al 2010, 'Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests', New Phytologist, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 631-646.
• Ostle, N, Smith, P, Fisher, R et al 2009, 'Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models', Journal of Ecology, vol. 97, no. 5, pp. 851-863.
• Huntingford, C, Lowe, J, Booth, B et al 2009, 'Contributions of carbon cycle uncertainty to future climate projection spread', Tellus Series B- Chemical and Physical Meteorology, vol. 61 B, no. 2, pp. 355-360.
• Aragao, L, Malhi, Y, Metcalfe, D et al 2009, 'Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils', Biogeosciences, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 2759-2778.
• Patino, S, Lloyds, J, Paiva, R et al 2009, 'Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin', Biogeosciences, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 545-568.
• Malhi, Y, Aragao, L, Galbraith, D et al 2009, 'Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 106, no. 49, pp. 20610-20615.
• ZIMMERMANN, M, Meir, P, Bird, M et al 2009, 'Climate dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration from a soil-translocation experiment along a 3000 m tropical forest altitudinal gradient', European Journal of Soil Science, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 895-906.
• Phillips, O, Aragao, L, Lewis, S et al 2009, 'Drought sensitivity of the amazon rainforest', Science, vol. 323, no. 5919, pp. 1344-1347.
• Mitchard, E, Saatchi, S, Woodhouse, I et al 2009, 'Using satellite radar backscatter to predict above-ground woody biomass: A consistent relationship across four different African landscapes', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 36, no. 23, pp. 1-6.
• Mitchard, E, Saatchi, S, Gerard, F et al 2009, 'Measuring woody encroachment along a forest-savanna boundary in Central Africa', Earth Interactions, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1-29.
• ZIMMERMANN, M, Meir, P, Bird, M et al 2009, 'Litter contribution to diurnal and annual soil respiration in a tropical montane cloud forest', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1338-1340.
• van de Weg, M, Meir, P, Grace, J et al 2009, 'Altitudinal variation in leaf mass per unit area, leaf tissue density and foliar nitrogen and phosphorus content along an Amazon-Andes gradient in Peru', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 243-254.
• Meir, P, Brando, P, Nepstad, D et al 2009, 'The Effects of Drought on Amazonian Rain Forests', in Michael Keller, Mercedes Bustamante, John Gash, Pedro Silva Dias (ed.), Amazonia and Global Change, American Geophysical Union, United States, pp. 429-450.
• Grace, J & Meir, P 2009, 'Tropical Rain Forests as Old-Growth Forests', in Wirth, Christian, Gleixner, Gerd, Heimann, Martin (Eds.) (ed.), Old-Growth Forests: Function, fate and value, Springer, Germany, pp. 391-403.
• Meir, P, Metcalfe, D, da Costa, A et al 2008, 'The fate of assimilated carbon during drought: Impacts on respiration in Amazon rainforests', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 363, no. 1498, pp. 1849-1855.
• Metcalfe, D, Meir, P, Aragão, L et al 2008, 'Sample sizes for estimating key ecosystem characteristics in a tropical terra firme rainforest', Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 255, no. 3-4, pp. 558-566.
• Metcalfe, D, Meir, P, Aragão, L et al 2008, 'The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest', Plant and Soil, vol. 311, no. 1-2, pp. 189-199.
• Fisher, R, Williams, M, Ruivo, M et al 2008, 'Evaluating climatic and soil water controls on evapotranspiration at two Amazonian rainforest sites', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 148, no. 6-7, pp. 850-861.

Projects and Grants

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• Hydraulic control on water use, growth and survival in tropical rainforest (Primary Investigator)
• Disentangling climate and evolutionary controls over the temperature-dependence of leaf respiration (Secondary Investigator)
• The causes and effects of mortality in tropical Australian trees (Primary Investigator)