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)
Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate
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 Environmental & Natural Sciences, I am an Associate Professor in Ecology at the Area of Biodiversity and Conservation, Global Change Research Institute (IICG-URJC) at the University Rey Juan Carlos 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).
- Gweithgarwch golygyddol
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (Cyfnodolyn)
Lars Markesteijn (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)
Ebr 2020 → …Gweithgaredd: Cyhoeddiad adolygiad cymheiriaid a gwaith golygyddol › Gweithgarwch golygyddol
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (Cyfnodolyn)
Lars Markesteijn (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)
Medi 2022Gweithgaredd: Cyhoeddiad adolygiad cymheiriaid a gwaith golygyddol › Gweithgarwch golygyddol
- Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd
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Newton Fund International Workshop on Dry Forests
Lars Markesteijn (Cyfranogwr)
18 Gorff 2018 → 20 Gorff 2018Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn digwyddiad neu drefnu digwyddiad › Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd
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Drought tolerance of tropical tree species
Lars Markesteijn (Siaradwr)
25 Chwef 2013Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs neu gyflwyniad › Sgwrs wadd
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Explaining tropical tree diversity
Lars Markesteijn (Siaradwr)
1 Rhag 2017Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs neu gyflwyniad › Sgwrs wadd
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Fungal pathogens and insect herbivores mediate seedling dynamics and diversity patterns along a tropical forest humidity gradient
Lars Markesteijn (Siaradwr gwadd)
4 Maw 2020Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs neu gyflwyniad › Sgwrs wadd
- Cyflwyniad llafar
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Drought and soil phosphorus explain variation in functional trait-vital rate relationships in tropical tree seedlings
Luke Browne (Siaradwr), Lars Markesteijn (Siaradwr), Eric Manzané-Pinzón (Siaradwr), S. Joseph Wright (Siaradwr), Robert Bagchi (Siaradwr), Bettina Engelbrecht (Siaradwr), Frank Andrew Jones (Siaradwr) & Liza S. Comita (Siaradwr)
16 Awst 2022Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs neu gyflwyniad › Cyflwyniad llafar
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Microbial plant-soil feedbacks affect secondary succession of tropical rainforests
Anita Weissflog (Siaradwr), Bettina Engelbrecht (Siaradwr), John Healey (Siaradwr) & Lars Markesteijn (Siaradwr)
12 Gorff 2022Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs neu gyflwyniad › Cyflwyniad llafar
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Overview of forestry distance learning at Bangor University
James Walmsley (Siaradwr), James Brockington (Siaradwr), Lars Markesteijn (Siaradwr), Eefke Mollee (Siaradwr) & Mark Rayment (Siaradwr)
18 Gorff 2019Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs neu gyflwyniad › Cyflwyniad llafar
- Arholiad
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Delineating protected honey-bee reserves at a regional scale. PhD.
Lars Markesteijn (Arholwr)
1 Chwef 2018 → …Gweithgaredd: Arholiad
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Effect of freeze-thaw events on microbial activities in polar soils
Lars Markesteijn (Arholwr)
1 Maw 2018 → …Gweithgaredd: Arholiad
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Extreme drought effects on Mediterranean tree species and its modulation by microclimate and fragmentation
Lars Markesteijn (Arholwr)
10 Tach 2016Gweithgaredd: Arholiad
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Influence of canopy richness on regeneration and coexistence of woody species in European forests
Lars Markesteijn (Arholwr)
15 Medi 2017Gweithgaredd: Arholiad
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Innovation in commercial soil health analysis and practical on farm guidance.
Lars Markesteijn (Arholwr)
1 Mai 2018 → …Gweithgaredd: Arholiad
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Special variation of floodplain vegetation in Nong thung tong non-hunting area, peninsular Thailand
Lars Markesteijn (Arholwr)
12 Meh 2019Gweithgaredd: Arholiad
- Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus
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Drought tolerance of tropical tree species; functional traits, tradeoffs and species distribution
Lars Markesteijn (Cyfrannwr)
30 Ebr 2013Gweithgaredd: Arall › Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus
- Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau
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The Secret Life of the Rainforest
Lars Markesteijn (Cyfrannwr)
16 Gorff 2012Gweithgaredd: Arall › Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau