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Daniel B. Metcalfe

Daniel B. Metcalfe

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
9905
World Ranking
4598
National Ranking
117

Overview

Daniel B. Metcalfe is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, and Soil Science.

Their work covers a range of key topics such as Fire effects on ecosystems, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Forest Management and Policy, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Climate change and permafrost.

Recent publications by Daniel B. Metcalfe include:

  • The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Widespread Unquantified Conversion of Old Boreal Forests to Plantations (2022, Earth's Future)
  • The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests: A review (2024, Global Change Biology)
  • Reindeer control over subarctic treeline alters soil fungal communities with potential consequences for soil carbon storage (2021, Global Change Biology)

Daniel B. Metcalfe has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including J. A. Kristensen, Bernice C. Hwang, Johan A. Eckdahl, Aradhana Roberts, and Aline B. Horwath.

Their publications are most often found in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Biogeosciences
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Forests

Best Publications

  • Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

    Lucy Rowland;A.C.L. da Costa;David R. Galbraith;R.S. Oliveira

  • Specific root length as an indicator of environmental change

    I. Ostonen;U. Puttsepp;C. Biel;O. Alberton

  • Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

    Christopher E. Doughty;D. B. Metcalfe;C. A. J. Girardin;F. Farfán Amézquita

  • Quantification of effects of season and nitrogen supply on tree below-ground carbon transfer to ectomycorrhizal fungi and other soil organisms in a boreal pine forest.

    Mona N. Högberg;Maria J. I. Briones;Maria J. I. Briones;Sonja G. Keel;Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in three Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz Eduardo O. C. Aragão;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Romilda Paiva

  • High temporal resolution tracing of photosynthate carbon from the tree canopy to forest soil microorganisms

    Peter Högberg;M N Högberg;S G Göttlicher;N R Betson

  • Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

    Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa;David Galbraith;Samuel Almeida;Bruno Takeshi Tanaka Portela

  • Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils

    L. E. O. C. Aragão;L. E. O. C. Aragão;Y. Malhi;D. B. Metcalfe;D. B. Metcalfe;J. E. Silva-Espejo

  • Are ectomycorrhizal fungi alleviating or aggravating nitrogen limitation of tree growth in boreal forests

    Torgny Näsholm;Torgny Näsholm;Peter Högberg;Oskar Franklin;Daniel Metcalfe

  • Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long-term natural experiment

    David A. Wardle;Micael Jonsson;Sheel Bansal;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3,000-m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Joshua B. Fisher;Yadvinder Malhi;Israel Cuba Torres;Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • Herbivory makes major contributions to ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical forests.

    Daniel B. Metcalfe;Gregory P. Asner;Roberta E. Martin;Javier E. Silva Espejo

  • Plant communities as drivers of soil respiration: pathways, mechanisms, and significance for global change

    D. B. Metcalfe;R. A. Fisher;D. A. Wardle

  • The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest

    Daniel B. Metcalfe;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Patrick Meir;Luiz Eduardo O. C. Aragão;Antonio C. L. da Costa

  • The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher E. Doughty;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective

    Yadvinder Malhi;Cécile A. J. Girardin;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Christopher E. Doughty

  • The fate of assimilated carbon during drought: impacts on respiration in Amazon rainforests

    Patrick Meir;Daniel B Metcalfe;Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa;Rosie A Fisher

  • Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon

    D. B. Metcalfe;D. B. Metcalfe;P. Meir;L. E. O. C. Aragão;R. Lobo‐do‐Vale

  • Contrasting effects of low and high nitrogen additions on soil CO2 flux components and ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarp production in a boreal forest

    Niles J. Hasselquist;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Peter Högberg

  • Factors controlling spatio‐temporal variation in carbon dioxide efflux from surface litter, roots, and soil organic matter at four rain forest sites in the eastern Amazon

    D. B. Metcalfe;D. B. Metcalfe;P. Meir;L. E. O. C. Aragão;Y. Malhi

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Christopher E. Doughty
Christopher E. Doughty Northern Arizona University
Cécile A. J. Girardin
Cécile A. J. Girardin University of Oxford
David W. Galbraith
David W. Galbraith University of Arizona
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Peter Högberg
Peter Högberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Toby R. Marthews
Toby R. Marthews University of Oxford
Rosie A. Fisher
Rosie A. Fisher National Center for Atmospheric Research

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