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Ina C. Meier is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and conducts research within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on plant science, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, soil science, and ecology.

The scientist's main topics of research include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, forest ecology and management, and plant and animal studies.

They have published multiple articles in prominent venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Plant and Soil
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Recent notable publications include:

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants (2020, Science Advances)
  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs (2020, New Phytologist)
  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements (2021, New Phytologist)
  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective (2021, New Phytologist)
  • Surplus Carbon Drives Allocation and Plant-Soil Interactions (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)

Ina C. Meier collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Alexandra Weigelt, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, Grégoire T. Freschet, Colleen M. Iversen, and Michael McCormack.

Best Publications

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants.

    Joana Bergmann;Alexandra Weigelt;Fons van der Plas;Daniel C. Laughlin

  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

    Grégoire T Freschet;Grégoire T Freschet;Catherine Roumet;Louise H Comas;Monique Weemstra

  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

    Grégoire T Freschet;Loïc Pagès;Colleen M Iversen;Louise H Comas

  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective

    Alexandra Weigelt;Liesje Mommer;Karl Andraczek;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Roots and fungi accelerate carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests exposed to elevated CO2.

    Richard P. Phillips;Ina C. Meier;Emily S. Bernhardt;A. Stuart Grandy

  • Root exudates increase N availability by stimulating microbial turnover of fast-cycling N pools

    Ina C. Meier;Adrien C. Finzi;Richard P. Phillips

  • Surplus Carbon Drives Allocation and Plant–Soil Interactions

    Cindy E. Prescott;Sue J. Grayston;Heljä Sisko Helmisaari;Eva Kaštovská

  • Belowground drought response of European beech: fine root biomass and carbon partitioning in 14 mature stands across a precipitation gradient

    Ina C. Meier;Christoph Leuschner

  • Root exudates induce soil macroaggregation facilitated by fungi in subsoil

    Vera Luise Baumert;Nadezda Vasilyeva;Artem Vladimirov;Ina Christin Meier

  • Leaf Size and Leaf Area Index in Fagus sylvatica Forests: Competing Effects of Precipitation, Temperature, and Nitrogen Availability

    Ina C. Meier;Christoph Leuschner

  • Global root traits (GRooT) database

    Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez;Liesje Mommer;Grégoire T. Freschet;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Genotypic variation and phenotypic plasticity in the drought response of fine roots of European beech

    Ina C. Meier;Christoph Leuschner

  • Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs

    Daniel C. Laughlin;Liesje Mommer;Francesco Maria Sabatini;Helge Bruelheide

  • On the niche breadth of Fagus sylvatica: soil nutrient status in 50 Central European beech stands on a broad range of bedrock types

    Christoph Leuschner;Ina C. Meier;Dietrich Hertel

  • Variation of soil and biomass carbon pools in beech forests across a precipitation gradient

    Ina C. Meier;Ina C. Meier;Christoph Leuschner

  • Root exudation of mature beech forests across a nutrient availability gradient: the role of root morphology and fungal activity

    Ina C. Meier;Timo Tückmantel;Julian Heitkötter;Karolin Müller

  • The mycorrhizal type governs root exudation and nitrogen uptake of temperate tree species.

    Rebecca Liese;Torben Lübbe;Nora W Albers;Ina C Meier

  • Root Branching Is a Leading Root Trait of the Plant Economics Spectrum in Temperate Trees.

    Rebecca Liese;Katrin Alings;Ina C. Meier

  • The rhizosphere and hyphosphere differ in their impacts on carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests exposed to elevated CO2

    Ina C. Meier;Seth G. Pritchard;Edward R. Brzostek;M. Luke McCormack

  • The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

    Aud Helen Halbritter Rechsteiner;Hans J. De Boeck;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Sabine Reinsch

  • Root exudation patterns in a beech forest: Dependence on soil depth, root morphology, and environment

    Timo Tückmantel;Christoph Leuschner;Sebastian Preusser;Ellen Kandeler

  • Fungal communities influence root exudation rates in pine seedlings

    Ina C. Meier;Peter G. Avis;Richard P. Phillips

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity increases phosphorus uptake efficiency of European beech

    Julia Köhler;Nan Yang;Rodica Pena;Venket Raghavan

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Leuschner
Christoph Leuschner University of Göttingen
Grégoire T. Freschet
Grégoire T. Freschet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hendrik Poorter
Hendrik Poorter Forschungszentrum Jülich
M. Luke McCormack
M. Luke McCormack Morton Arboretum
Catherine Roumet
Catherine Roumet University of Montpellier
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Fons van der Plas
Fons van der Plas Wageningen University & Research
Liesje Mommer
Liesje Mommer Wageningen University & Research
Colleen M. Iversen
Colleen M. Iversen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thomas W. Kuyper
Thomas W. Kuyper Wageningen University & Research

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