1. Metz, M. R., J. M. Varner, A. B. Simler, K. M. Frangioso, and D. M. Rizzo. (in press). Implications of sudden oak death for wildland fire management. Forest Phytophthoras.
2. Cobb, R. C. and M. R. Metz. 2017. Tree diseases as a cause and consequence of interacting forest disturbances. Forests. 8:art147. pdf
3. Johnstone, J. F., C. D. Allen, J. F. Franklin, L. E. Frelich, B. J. Harvey, P. E. Higuera, M. C. Mack, R. K. Meentemeyer, M. R. Metz, G. L. W. Perry, T. Schoennagel, and M. G. Turner. 2016. Changing disturbance regimes, climate warming, and forest resilience. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 14:369-378. abstract
4. Lokvam, J., M. R. Metz, G. R. Takeoka, L. Nguyen, and P. V. A. Fine. 2015. Habitat-specific divergence of procyanidins in Protium subserratum (Burseraceae). Chemoecology. 25(6):293-302. abstract
5. Chen, G., M. R. Metz, D. M. Rizzo and R. K. Meentemeyer. 2015. Mapping burn severity in a disease-impacted forest landscape using Landsat and MASTER imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 40:91-99. abstract
6. Chen, G., M. R. Metz, D. M. Rizzo, W. W. Dillon, and R. K. Meentemeyer. 2015. Object-based assessment of burn severity in diseased forests using high-spatial and high-spectral resolution MASTER airborne imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 102:38-47. abstract
   
7. Beh, M. M., M. R. Metz, S. J. Seybold, and D. M. Rizzo. 2014. The novel interaction between Phytophthora ramorum and wildfire elicits elevated ambrosia beetle landing rates on tanoak, Notholithocarpus densiflorus. Forest Ecology and Management. 318:21-33. pdf
8. Metz, M. R., J. M. Varner, K. M. Frangioso, R. K. Meentemeyer, and D. M. Rizzo. 2013. Unexpected redwood mortality from synergies between wildfire and an emerging infectious disease. Ecology. 94(10):2152-2159. pdf
9. Queenborough, S. A., M. R. Metz, L. R. Valencia, and S. J. Wright. 2013. Demographic consequences of chromatic leaf defence in tropical tree communities - do red young leaves increase growth and survival. Annals of Botany. 112(4):677-684. abstract
10. Fine, P. V. A., M. R. Metz, J. Lokvam, I. Mesones, J. M. Ayarza Zuñiga, G. P. A. Lamarre, M. Vasquez Pilco, and C. Baraloto.  2013. Insect herbivores, chemical innovation and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees. Ecology. 94(8):1764-1775. abstract
11. Álvarez Alonso, J., M. R. Metz, and P. V. A. Fine. 2013. Habitat specialization by birds in western Amazonian white-sand forests.  Biotropica. 45(3): 365-372. abstract
12. Dillon, W. W., R. K. Meentemeyer, J. B. Vogler, R. C. Cobb, M. R. Metz, and D. M. Rizzo.  2013. Range-wide risks to a foundation tree species from disturbance interactions. Madroño. 60(2):139:150. pdf
13. Beh, M. M., M. R. Metz, K. M. Frangioso and D. M. Rizzo. 2012. The key host for an invasive forest pathogen also facilitates the pathogen’s survival of wildfire in California forests. New Phytologist. 196(4): 1145-1154. abstract
14. Metz, M. R., K. M. Frangioso, A. C. Wickland, R. K. Meentemeyer, and D. M. Rizzo.  2012. An emergent disease causes directional changes in forest species composition in coastal California. Ecosphere. 10(3):article86. pdf
15. Metz, M. R. 2012. Does habitat specialization by seedlings contribute to the high diversity of a lowland rainforest? Journal of Ecology. 100(4):969-979. abstract
16. Queenborough, S. A., M. R. Metz, T. Wiegand, and R. Valencia. 2012. Palms, peccaries and perturbations: widespread effects of small-scale disturbances in tropical forests. BMC Ecology. 12:article3. pdf
17. Metz, M. R., K. M. Frangioso, R. K. Meentemeyer and D. M. Rizzo. 2011. Interacting disturbances: Wildfire severity affected by stage of forest disease invasion. Ecological Applications. 21(2):313-320. pdf
18. Metz, M. R., W. P. Sousa, and L. R. Valencia. 2010. Community-wide, density-dependent seedling mortality promotes species coexistence in a highly diverse Amazonian rainforest. Ecology. 91(12):375-3685. abstract
19. Kraft, N. J. B*, M. R. Metz*, R. S. Condit, and J. Chave. 2010. The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest dataset. New Phytologist. 188(4):1124-1136. *equal contribution to authorship abstract
20. Metz, M. R., L. S. Comita, Y. Chen, N. Norden, R. Condit, S. P. Hubbell, I. Sun, N. Supardi B. M. N., and S. J. Wright. 2008. Temporal and spatial variability in seedling dynamics: a cross-site comparison in four lowland tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 24(1): 9-18. abstract
21. Metz, M. R. and F. Keesing, 2001.  Dietary choices by the pouched mouse (Saccostamus mearnsi) in Central Kenya.  Biotropica. 33(1): 182-187. abstract