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). Scalability and performance tradeoffs in quantifying relationships between elevation and tidal wetland plant communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 666 , 57-72. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13683
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(2021). Coastal Forest Seawater Exposure Increases Stem Methane Concentration . Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126 (2) , Article e2020JG005915. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005915
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(2021). Biogeochemical and plant trait mechanisms drive enhanced methane emissions in response to whole-ecosystem warming. Biogeosciences, 18 (8) , 2449-2463. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2449-2021
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(2021). Considering coasts: Adapting terrestrial models to characterize coastal wetland ecosystems. Ecological Modelling, 450 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109561
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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
