Dr Lars Markesteijn
Uwch Darlithydd
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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 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).
- Doethur mewn Athroniaeth
The role of plant-fungus and plant-insect interactions in the dynamics of secondary and mature tropical rainforests
Awdur: Weissflog, A., 22 Awst 2022Goruchwylydd: Markesteijn, L. (Goruchwylydd), Healey, J. (Goruchwylydd) & Engelbrecht, B. (Unigolyn allanol) (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Doethur mewn Athroniaeth
- Graddau Meistr trwy Ymchwil
Arthropod herbivory and fungal pathogen damage as determinants of distribution of tropical tree species Lacistema aggregatum across a Panamanian rainfall gradient
Awdur: Martin, L., 24 Gorff 2023Goruchwylydd: Markesteijn, L. (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Graddau Meistr trwy Ymchwil
Breaking down the effect of biotic and abiotic mechanisms of litter decomposition in drylands
Awdur: Fishburn, D., 4 Tach 2019Goruchwylydd: Markesteijn, L. (Goruchwylydd) & Rey, A. (Unigolyn allanol) (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Graddau Meistr trwy Ymchwil
Determining the consequences of forest degradation on mangrove epifauna in South-East Kenya
Awdur: Barbanera, A., 24 Chwef 2021Goruchwylydd: Markesteijn, L. (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Graddau Meistr trwy Ymchwil