Dr Lars Markesteijn
Uwch Darlithydd
Contact info
Thoday Building, room S10Email: l.markesteijn@bangor.ac.uk
Tel: 01248 382337 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 382337 (International)
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Tropical forest ecology, Functional ecology, Restoration ecology, Plant-enemy interactions
As a researcher I am foremost fascinated by biodiversity and as such most of my work is carried out in biologically complex tropical forest ecosystems. My research addresses processes underlying function and co-existence of tropical plants and mechanisms of biodiversity generation and maintenance. I take a special interest in density-dependent mortality or negative density dependence (NDD), as mediated by plant natural enemies, and how it affects regeneration dynamics of tropical plants. I further work on physiological plant responses to limiting resources, resource competition, and tolerance to environmental and global change - principally with respect to water and light. I explore the effects of variation in plant functional traits on individual plant performance and species distribution from local to cross-ecosystem scales.
In addition to being a Senior Lecturer in Forest Scsience at the School of Natural Sciences, I am a Distinguished Research Lecturer (Beatriz Galindo Fellow) in the Area of Biodiversity and Conservation at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid (Spain), and an affiliated researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama.
I hold a Ph.D. in Tropical Forest Ecology and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Tropical Land Use from Wageningen University (the Netherlands). I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on different projects with STRI and the Universities of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA), Oxford (UK), Yale (USA), Oregon State (USA) and Bayreuth (Germany).
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SÊR Cymru II - COFUND
Markesteijn, Lars (Derbynydd), 2016
Gwobr: Cymrodoriaeth a roddwyd ar sail cystadleuaeth
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Independent Research Grant by the Community of Madrid
Markesteijn, Lars (Derbynydd), 1 Ion 2021
Gwobr: Cymrodoriaeth a roddwyd ar sail cystadleuaeth
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Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Researcher Fellowship
Markesteijn, Lars (Derbynydd), 16 Mai 2020
Gwobr: Cymrodoriaeth a roddwyd ar sail cystadleuaeth
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Grant NWO Rubicon
Markesteijn, Lars (Derbynydd), 2010
Gwobr: Cymrodoriaeth a roddwyd ar sail cystadleuaeth
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Grant Postdoctoral contract CeiA3 ‘Attracting Talent to the Agri-food Sector’
Markesteijn, Lars (Derbynydd), 2013
Gwobr: Cymrodoriaeth a roddwyd ar sail cystadleuaeth
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Fellowship Juan de la Cierva sub-programme
Markesteijn, Lars (Derbynydd), 2013
Gwobr: Cymrodoriaeth a roddwyd ar sail cystadleuaeth