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).
- 2013
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Diverging drought-tolerance strategies explain tree species distribution along a fog-dependent moisture gradient in a temperate rain forest
Salgado Negret, B., Perez, F., Markesteijn, L., Jimenez Castillo, M. & Armesto, J. J., Tach 2013, Yn: Oecologia. 173, 3, t. 625-635Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Are lianas more drought-tolerant than trees? A test for the role of hydraulic architecture and other stem and leaf traits
van der Sande, M. T., Poorter, L., Schnitzer, S. A. & Markesteijn, L., Awst 2013, Yn: Oecologia. 172, 4, t. 961-972Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2011
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Functional traits determine trade-offs and niches in a tropical forest community
Sterck, F., Markesteijn, L., Schieving, F. & Poorter, L., 20 Rhag 2011, Yn: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 108, 51, t. 20627-20632Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties
Onoda, Y., Westoby, M., Adler, P. B., Choong, A. M. F., Clissold, F. J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Diaz, S., Dominy, N. J., Elgart, A., Enrico, L., Fine, P. V. A., Howard, J. J., Jalili, A., Kitajima, K., Kurokawa, H., McArthur, C., Lucas, P. W., Markesteijn, L., Perez-Harguindeguy, N., Poorter, L., Richards, L., Santiago, L. S., Sosinski, E. E. . J., Van Bael, S. A., Warton, D. I., Wright, I. J., Wright, S. J. & Yamashita, N., Maw 2011, Yn: Ecology Letters. 14, 3, t. 301-312Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits
Markesteijn, L., Poorter, L., Paz, H., Sack, L. & Bongers, F., Ion 2011, Yn: Plant Cell and Environment. 34, 1, t. 137-148Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species' drought and shade tolerance
Markesteijn, L., Poorter, L., Bongers, F., Paz, H. & Sack, L., 2011, Yn: New Phytologist. 191, 2, t. 480-495Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2010
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Seasonal variation in soil and plant water potentials in a Bolivian tropical moist and dry forest
Markesteijn, L., Iraipi, J., Bongers, F. & Poorter, L., Medi 2010, Yn: Journal of Tropical Ecology. 26, t. 497-508Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Drought-tolerance of tropical tree species: Functional traits, trade-offs and species distribution
Markesteijn, L., 3 Chwef 2010, Wageningen, the Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. 189 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2009
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Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance
Markesteijn, L. & Poorter, L., Maw 2009, Yn: Journal of Ecology. 97, 2, t. 311-325Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2008
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La disponibilidad hídrica estacional y topográfica en un bosque seco y húmedo tropical y la variación en la morfología de las plántulas arbóreas
Markesteijn, L., Poorter, L. & Yanguas Fernandez, E., 2008, Yn: Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental. 24, t. 27-42Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2007
- Cyhoeddwyd
Light-dependent leaf trait variation in 43 tropical dry forest tree species
Markesteijn, L., Poorter, L. & Bongers, F., Ebr 2007, Yn: American Journal of Botany. 94, 4, t. 515-525Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid