Patrick Meir

36.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
214 papers, 17.3k citations indexed

About

Patrick Meir is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Meir has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 17.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 97 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 61 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Meir's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (127 papers), Forest ecology and management (57 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers). Patrick Meir is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (127 papers), Forest ecology and management (57 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers). Patrick Meir collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil. Patrick Meir's co-authors include Yadvinder Malhi, Norma Salinas, Rosie A. Fisher, John Grace, Antônio C. L. da Costa, Mathew Williams, Heloísa S. Miranda, Andrew T. Nottingham, David Galbraith and Maurizio Mencuccini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Meir

209 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

2009 618 citations Yadvinder Malhi, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

2014 538 citations Patrick Meir, Andrew T. Nottingham et al. profile →
Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

2015 493 citations Lucy Rowland, Antônio C. L. da Costa et al. profile →
Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

2015 462 citations Christopher E. Doughty, Cécile Girardin et al. profile →
Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

2018 229 citations Andrew T. Nottingham, Benjamin L. Turner et al. profile →
Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest

2020 206 citations Andrew T. Nottingham, Patrick Meir et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Meir United Kingdom	75	10.9k	5.6k	4.7k	3.7k	3.5k	214	17.3k
Paul J. Hanson United States	69	10.3k 0.9×	3.6k 0.6×	5.5k 1.2×	4.7k 1.3×	4.5k 1.3×	226	17.4k
Travis E. Huxman United States	67	10.6k 1.0×	4.4k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	3.7k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	174	16.2k
William T. Pockman United States	50	12.7k 1.2×	6.2k 1.1×	3.7k 0.8×	5.0k 1.3×	2.4k 0.7×	100	17.1k
Jon Lloyd Germany	62	12.0k 1.1×	3.9k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	4.6k 1.2×	2.8k 0.8×	196	16.9k
Christoph Leuschner Germany	72	8.1k 0.7×	8.8k 1.6×	3.2k 0.7×	4.6k 1.2×	3.1k 0.9×	396	16.9k
Jens Kattge Germany	64	7.4k 0.7×	5.4k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	4.1k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	151	14.3k
David G. Williams United States	51	9.3k 0.9×	3.8k 0.7×	2.9k 0.6×	3.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	180	13.6k
Riccardo Valentini Italy	58	9.7k 0.9×	3.0k 0.5×	4.4k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	261	15.1k
Michael L. Goulden United States	70	15.0k 1.4×	3.7k 0.7×	6.3k 1.4×	3.6k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	183	20.2k
Mark E. Harmon United States	63	9.2k 0.8×	7.2k 1.3×	4.6k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	3.2k 0.9×	163	16.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Meir

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick Meir. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick Meir based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Patrick Meir. Patrick Meir is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Binks, Oliver, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael J. Liddell, et al.. (2023). Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1405–1420. 12 indexed citations

Neeman, Teresa, et al.. (2023). Ghosts of dry seasons past: Legacy of severe drought enhances mangrove salinity tolerance through coordinated cellular osmotic and elastic adjustments. Plant Cell & Environment. 46(7). 2031–2045. 11 indexed citations

Kauwe, Martin G. De, Manon Sabot, Belinda E. Medlyn, et al.. (2022). Towards species‐level forecasts of drought‐induced tree mortality risk. New Phytologist. 235(1). 94–110. 19 indexed citations

Matos, Ilaíne Silveira, Oliver Binks, Cleiton B. Eller, et al.. (2022). Revisiting plant hydrological niches: The importance of atmospheric resources for ground‐rooted plants. Journal of Ecology. 110(8). 1746–1756. 13 indexed citations

Yao, Yitong, Émilie Joetzjer, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2022). Forest fluxes and mortality response to drought: model description (ORCHIDEE-CAN-NHA r7236) and evaluation at the Caxiuanã drought experiment. Geoscientific model development. 15(20). 7809–7833. 17 indexed citations

Griffiths, Andy, Miles R. Silman, William Farfán-Ríos, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient. Biotropica. 53(1). 38–50. 15 indexed citations

Rowland, Lucy, Peter M. Cox, Debbie Hemming, et al.. (2020). The role of non-structural carbohydrates in simulations of ecosystem carbon fluxes..

Rowland, Lucy, Antônio C. L. da Costa, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2020). The response of carbon assimilation and storage to long‐term drought in tropical trees is dependent on light availability. Functional Ecology. 35(1). 43–53. 21 indexed citations

Hicks, Lettice C., Patrick Meir, Andrew T. Nottingham, et al.. (2018). Carbon and nitrogen inputs differentially affect priming of soil organic matter in tropical lowland and montane soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 129. 212–222. 98 indexed citations

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Taylor, Tyeen, Sean M. McMahon, Marielle N. Smith, et al.. (2018). Isoprene emission structures tropical tree biogeography and community assembly responses to climate. New Phytologist. 220(2). 435–446. 34 indexed citations

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Medlyn, Belinda E., Martin G. De Kauwe, Yan‐Shih Lin, et al.. (2017). How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water‐use efficiency compare?. New Phytologist. 216(3). 758–770. 168 indexed citations

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Diem, Torsten, Nicholas Morley, Elizabeth M. Baggs, et al.. (2017). Complex controls on nitrous oxide flux across a large-elevation gradient in the tropical Peruvian Andes. Biogeosciences. 14(22). 5077–5097. 5 indexed citations

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Malhi, Yadvinder, Cécile Girardin, Gregory R. Goldsmith, et al.. (2016). The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective. New Phytologist. 214(3). 1019–1032. 116 indexed citations

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Christoffersen, Bradley, Manuel Gloor, Sophie Fauset, 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. 9(11). 4227–4255. 190 indexed citations

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Doughty, Christopher E., Daniel B. Metcalfe, Cécile Girardin, et al.. (2015). Source and sink carbon dynamics and carbon allocation in the Amazon basin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(5). 645–655. 37 indexed citations

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Nottingham, Andrew T., Benjamin L. Turner, Jeanette Whitaker, et al.. (2015). Soil microbial nutrient constraints along a tropical forest elevation gradient: a belowground test of a biogeochemical paradigm. Biogeosciences. 12(20). 6071–6083. 77 indexed citations

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Metcalfe, Daniel B., Patrick Meir, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, et al.. (2010). Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large‐scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon. New Phytologist. 187(3). 608–621. 112 indexed citations

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Rahman, Md. Tanvir, Andrew T. Crombie, Yin Chen, et al.. (2010). Environmental distribution and abundance of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella. The ISME Journal. 5(6). 1061–1066. 56 indexed citations

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Malhi, Yadvinder, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, David Galbraith, et al.. (2009). Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(49). 20610–20615. 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zamora, Nelson, Diego Delgado, Patrick Meir, & Bryan Finegan. (1996). Efectos del aprovechamiento forestal y del tratamiento silvicultural en un bosque tropical húmedo del noreste de Costa Rica; cambios en la riqueza y composición de la vegetación. 4 indexed citations

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