Associate Director for Research, Principal Investigator
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Biography
Pat Megonigal is an ecosystem ecologist with interests in carbon and greenhouse gas cycling in wetlands and forests, particularly as they relate to global change. He is the lead investigator of the Global Change Research Wetland, a world class facility dedicated to unraveling the complex ecological processes that confer stability on coastal marshes as they respond to global environmental change.
Publications
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(2021). Coastal Forest Seawater Exposure Increases Stem Methane Concentration . Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126 (2) , e2020JG005915. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005915
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(2020). Uptake of organic nitrogen by coastal wetland plants under elevated CO2 . Plant and Soil, 450 , 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04504-5
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(2020). Total ecosystem carbon stocks of mangroves across broad global environmental and physical gradients . Ecological Monographs, , Article e01405. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1405
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(2020). Radon as a natural tracer of gas transport through trees . The New Phytologist, 225 (4) , 1470-1475. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16292
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(2020). Plant species determine tidal wetland methane response to sea level rise. Nature Communications, 11 (1) , 5154-5154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18763-4
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(2020). Localized basal area affects soil respiration temperature sensitivity in a coastal deciduous forest. Biogeosciences, 17 (3) , 771-780. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-771-2020
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(2020). Dissolved organic carbon sorption dynamics in tidal marsh soils . Limnology and Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11598
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(2020). Tree growth, transpiration, and water-use efficiency between shoreline and upland red maple (Acer rubrum) trees in a coastal forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 295 , 108163-108163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108163
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(2020). Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models. Nature Communications, 11 (1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16236-2
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(2020). Hurricane Sandy Effects on Coastal Marsh Elevation Change . Estuaries and Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00758-5
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(2019). Methane emissions from tree stems: a new frontier in the global carbon cycle . New Phytologist, 222 (1) , 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15582
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(2019). Soil Respiration Variability and Correlation Across a Wide Range of Temporal Scales . Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 124 (11) , 3762-3683. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005265
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(2019). Methane production and emissions in trees and forests . New Phytologist, 222 (1) , 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15624
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(2019). Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (36) , 17867-17873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1819027116
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(2019). Nitrogen status regulates morphological adaptation of marsh plants to elevated CO2 . Nature Climate Change, 9 (10) , 764-768. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0582-x
