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.
Present: Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Edinburgh
Linking biotic attack with tree mortality & canopy condition in droughted tropical rainforest
Meir, P.
1/10/15 – 31/10/15
NERC
The Amazon Fertilisation Experiment (AFEX)
Meir, P.
1/08/14 – 31/01/19
NERC
TROPICALCARBON Tropical forest soil carbon storage and microbial diversity under climatic warming
Meir, P.
1/04/14 – 31/03/17
EU government bodies
ACES: Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican Woodlands
Patenaude, G., Meir, P., Ryan, C., Fisher, J. & Metzger, M. J.
30/11/13 – 29/03/17
NERC
ACES: Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican Woodlands
Patenaude, G., Ryan, C., Fisher, J., Metzger, M. J. & Meir, P.
30/11/13 – 31/12/17
NERC
BIODIVERSITY AND LAND-USE IMPACTS ON TROPICAL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION (BALI)
Williams, M. & Meir, P.
1/10/13 – 30/09/17
NERC
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic forests
Meir, P.
1/10/13 – 30/09/17
Soil carbon and nutrient cycling across an Andean tree-line
Meir, P.
1/12/12 – 28/02/13
UK-based charities
Understanding how drought affects the risk of increased mortality in tropical rain forests
Meir, P.
1/11/12 – 31/10/16
NERC
Tree communities, airborne remote sensing and ecosystem function: new connections through a traits framework applied to a tropical elevation gradient
Meir, P.
1/10/12 – 30/09/15
NERC
Turnbull, M., Griffin, K., Fyllas, N., Lloyd, J., Meir, P. and Atkin, O., 2016. Separating species and environmental determinants of leaf functional traits in temperate rainforest plants along a soil-development chronosequence. Functional Plant Biology.
Heskel, M.A., O’Sullivan, O.S., Reich, P.B., Tjoelker, M.G., Weerasinghe, L.K., Penillard, A., Egerton, J.J., Creek, D., Bloomfield, K.J., Xiang, J. and Sinca, F., 2016. Convergence in the temperature response of leaf respiration across biomes and plant functional types. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(14), pp.3832-3837.
Girardin, C.A., Malhi, Y., Doughty, C.E., Metcalfe, D.B., Meir, P., Aguila‐Pasquel, J., Araujo‐Murakami, A., Costa, A.C., Silva‐Espejo, J.E., Farfán Amézquita, F. and Rowland, L., 2016. Seasonal trends of Amazonian rainforest phenology, net primary productivity, and carbon allocation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Johnson, M.O., Galbraith, D., Gloor, E., De Deurwaerder, H., Guimberteau, M., Rammig, A., Thonicke, K., Verbeeck, H., von Randow, C., Monteagudo, A. and Phillips, O.L., 2016. Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. Global Change Biology.
Binks, O., Meir, P., Rowland, L., Costa, A.C.L., Vasconcelos, S.S., Oliveira, A.A.R., Ferreira, L., Christoffersen, B., Nardini, A. and Mencuccini, M., 2016. Plasticity in leaf‐level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought. New Phytologist.
