Reviews and Overviews

Meason, D., Matson, A., Baillie, B., Moller, D., Dudley, B., Srinivasan, M. S., ... & White, D. (2020, September). Forest Flows-Real Time Monitoring of Water Quantity and Quality Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Planted Forests. In IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 4626-4629, doi:10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324637.

Meason, D. F., Baillie, B. R., Höck, B., Lad, P., & Payn, T. (2019). Planted forests and water yield in New Zealand’s hydrological landscape–current and future challenges. New Zealand Journal of Forestry, 63(4), 29-35.

Application of Forest Flows science

Höck, B., Meason, D.F., Payn, T., Andreadis, K.M., & McWilliams, V. (2024). Application of satellite sensing of under canopy soil moisture – a new approach for forest managers. New Zealand Journal of Forestry, 69(2).

Extreme rainfall events

McWilliams, V., Meason, D., Villamor, D. (2024). Extreme rainfall – forest flows: The need for water resilient landscapes. NZ Tree Grower, Feb 2024.

Machine learning/Artificial intelligence

Cassales, G., Salekin, S., Lim, N., Meason, D., Bifet, A., Pfahringer, B., & Frank, E. (2025). A comparative study of four deep learning algorithms for predicting tree stem radius measured by dendrometer: A case study. Ecological Informatics, 86, 103014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103014

Community engagement and perceptions

Villamor, G., Sharma-Wallace, L., van Noordwijk, M., Barnard, T. D., & Meason, D. F. (2022). A systematic review of participatory integrated assessment at the catchment scale: Lessons learned from practice. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 4, Article 100167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100167

Remote sensing of forest soil moisture and drought

Andreadis, K. M., Meason, D. F., Hock, B., Lad, P., & Das, N. (2022). Evaluation of multiscale SMAP soil moisture products in forested environments. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 19, Article 2505805. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2022.3184177

Andreadis, K. M., Meason, D., Corbett-Lad, P., Höck, B., & Das, N. (2024). Hydrologic consistency of multi-sensor drought observations in forested environments. Remote Sensing, 16(5), Article 852. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16050852

Zhao, Y. -H., Moller, D., Meason, D., & Moghaddam, M. (2025). Multifrequency Subsurface Soil Moisture Retrieval for Forest Flows: A Case Study in Te Hiku, New Zealand. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18, 435-445. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3493118.

Spatial variation/prediction

Salekin, S., Lad, P., Morgenroth, J., Dickinson, Y., & Meason, D. F. (2023). Uncertainty in primary and secondary topographic attributes caused by digital elevation model spatial resolution. Catena, 231, Article 107320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107320

Zhu, H., Meason, D. F., Salekin, S., Hu, W., Lad, P., Jing, Y., & Xue, J. (2024). Time stability of soil volumetric water content and its optimal sampling design in contrasting forest catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 636, Article 131344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131344

Stable isotopes

Dudley, B. D., Hill, A. F., & McKenzie, A. (2024). A seasonal precipitation isoscape for New Zealand. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 52, 101711

Tree water use

White, D. A., Silberstein, R. P., Balocchi-Contreras, F., Quiroga, J. J., Meason, D. F., Palma, J. H. N., & Ramírez de Arellano, P. (2021). Growth, water use, and water use efficiency of Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus radiata plantations compared with natural stands of Roble-Hualo forest in the coastal mountains of central Chile. Forest Ecology and Management, 501, Article 119676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119676

White, D. A., Ren, S., Mendham, D. S., Balocchi-Contreras, F., Silberstein, R. P., Meason, D., Iroumé, A., & De Arellano, P. R. (2022). Is the reputation of Eucalyptus plantations for using more water than Pinus plantations justified? Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(20), 5357-5371. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5357-2022