Please contact Margaret Metz if you need a digital reprint of any of these papers.

*indicates undergraduate co-author; § indicates graduate student co-Author
  1. §Grover, E., M. R. Metz, R. Valencia, and S. A. Queenborough. 2025. Influence of tree height and age on leaf drip-tip morphology in lowland tropical rain forest trees. Functional Ecology. 39:3766–3777. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70218
  2. *Genth, L., M. R. Metz, R. Valencia, and S. A. Queenborough. 2025. Standing herbivory is not affected by tree sex or conspecific density in a dioecious understory tropical tree species. Biotropica. 57:e70006. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70006
  3. Vleminckx, J., J. A. Hogan, M. R. Metz, L. S. Comita, S. A. Queenborough, S. J. Wright, R. Valencia, M. Zambrano, and N. C. Garwood. 2025. Seed production and 22 years of climatic changes in an everwet Neotropical forest. Ecology Letters.28: e70019.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70019
  4. Kambach, S., H. Bruelheide, L. S. Comita, Liza, R. Condit, S. J. Wright, S. Aguilar, C-H. Chang-Yang, Y-Y Chen, N. C. Garwood, S. Hubbell, M. R. Metz, R. Pérez, S. A. Queenborough, I-F Sun, N. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, T. Yao, J. K. Zimmerman, and N. Rüger. 2025. Putting seedlings on the map: Trade-offs in demographic rates from seedlings to largest trees in five tropical forests. Ecology. 106:e4527. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4527
  5. §Luu, H., J. Hille Ris Lambers, J. Lutz, M. R. Metz, and R. Snell. 2024. The importance of regeneration processes on forest biodiversity in old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 379: 20230016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0016
  6. §Sullivan, M. K., A. Fayolle, E. Bush, B. Ofosu-Bamfo, J. Vleminckx, M. R. Metz, and S. A. Queenborough. 2023. Cascading effects of climate change: new advances in drivers and shifts of tropical reproductive phenology. Plant Ecology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-023-01377-3 
  7. Vleminckx, J., J. A. Hogan, M. R. Metz, L. S. Comita, S. A. Queenborough, S. J. Wright, R. Valencia, M. Zambrano, and N. C. Garwood. (in press). Decreasing flower production coincides with warmer and more humid atmospheric conditions in a Western Amazonian forest. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19388
  8. Metz, M. R., S. J. Wright, J. K. Zimmerman, A. Hernandéz, S. M. Smith*, N. G. Swenson, M. N. Umaña, L. R. Valencia, I. Waring-Enriquez*, M. Wordell*, M. Zambrano, and N. C. Garwood. 2023. Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade-offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14195 (open access)
  9. Garwood, N. C., M. R. Metz, S. A. Queenborough, V. Persson, S. J. Wright, D. F. R. P. Burslem, M. Zambrano, and R. Valencia. 2023. Seasonality of reproduction in an ever-wet lowland tropical forest in Amazonian Ecuador. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4133 (open access)
  10. Pak, D., V. Swamy, P. Alvarez-Loayza, F. Cornejo-Valverde, S. A. Queenborough, M. R. Metz, J. Terborgh, R. Valencia, S. J. Wright, N. C. Garwood, and J. R. Lasky. 2023. Multi-scale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse Amazonian plant communities. Ecology. 104(5):4022. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4022
  11. Kozanitas, M., M. R. Metz, T. W. Osmundson, M. Socorro Serrano, and M. Garbelotto. 2022. The epidemiology of Sudden Oak Death disease caused by Phytophthora ramorum in a mixed bay laurel-oak woodland provides important clues for disease management. Pathogens. 11(250). abstract
  12. Fine, P. V. A., D. Salazar, R. E. Martin, M. R. Metz, T. Misiewicz, and G. P. Asner. 2021. Exploring the links between secondary metabolites and leaf spectral reflectance in a diverse genus of Amazonian trees. Ecosphere. 12(2):e03362. pdf
  13. Simler-Williamson, A. B., M. R. Metz, K. M. Frangioso, and D. M. Rizzo. 2020. Wildfire alters the dynamics and disturbance impacts of an emerging infectious disease via changes to host composition and structure. Journal of Ecology. 109:676-691. abstract
  14. Lysgaard, C.*, J. A. Lutz, M. R. Metz, and J. HilleRisLambers. 2020. The challenges of early life for coniferous trees of the Pacific Northwest. Douglasia. 44(2): 9-12. pdf
  15. Simler-Williamson, A. B., M. R. Metz, K. M. Frangioso, R. K. Meentemeyer, and D. M. Rizzo. 2019. Compound disease and wildfire disturbances alter opportunities for seedling regeneration in a resprouter-dominated forest system. Ecosphere. 10(12):e02991. pdf
  16. Brockway, N. L, Z. T. Cook*, M. J. O’Gallagher*, Z. J. C. Tobias, M. Gedi*, K. M. Carey, V. K. Unni, Y. A. Pan, M. R. Metz, and T. A. Weissman. 2019. Multicolor lineage tracing using in vivo time-lapse imaging reveals coordinated death of clonally related cells in the developing vertebrate brain. Developmental Biology. 453:130-140. ​abstract
  17. Simler, A.B., M. R. Metz, K. M. Frangioso, R. K. Meentemeyer, and D. M. Rizzo. 2018. Novel disturbance interactions between fire and an emerging disease impact survival and growth of resprouting trees. Ecology. 99:2217-2229. abstract
  18. Usinowicz, J., Y. Chen, J. S. Clark, C. Fletcher, N. C. Garwood, J. Johnstone, Y. Lin, M. R. Metz, T. Masaki, T. Nakashizuka, I. Sun, R. Valencia, J. K. Zimmerman, A. R. Ives, S. J. Wright. 2017. Latitudinal differences in coexistence contribute to geographic variation in forest diversity. Nature. 550:105-108. pdf
  19. Metz, M. R., J. M. Varner, A. B. Simler, K. M. Frangioso, and D. M. Rizzo. 2017. Implications of sudden oak death for wildland fire management. Forest Phytophthoras. 7:30-44. pdf
  20. Kane, J. M., J. M. Varner, M. R. Metz, and P. J. Van Mantgem. 2017. Characterizing interactions between fire and other disturbances and their impacts on tree mortality in western U.S. forests. Forest Ecology & Management. 405:188-199. abstract
  21. Cobb, R. C. and M. R. Metz. 2017. Tree diseases as a cause and consequence of interacting forest disturbances. Forests. 8:art147. pdf
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. Metz, M. R. and F. Keesing, 2001.  Dietary choices by the pouched mouse (Saccostamus mearnsi) in Central Kenya.  Biotropica. 33(1): 182-187. abstract