Dr Martin Skov

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Contact info

Room: 408 Westbury Mount      Phone: 01248 383846

E-mail: mwskov@bangor.ac.uk

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I did a BSc (1st Class Hons) in marine biology with Bangor University in 1996, which followed by a PhD in mangrove ecology with Liverpool University in 2001. My postdoctoral career took me through a two year research fellowship with Lisbon University in Portugal, studying crustacean recruitment dynamics, a one year postdoc with Bangor University on phytoplankton research, and a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship with Southampton University, in which I used intertidal snails and biofilms to test model predictions related to resource distribution and habitat fragmentation. I returned to Bangor University in 2009 for a Research Lectureship, which in January 2013 led to a permanent lectureship and later a Senior Lectureship with the School of Ocean Sciences.

I am an experimental ecologist with particular interests in the ecological functioning and ecosystem services of coastal salt marshes, mangroves and seagrasses. My research focuses particularly on regulators of landscape-scale functioning, such as examining what determines the delivery of natural coastal protection and carbon sequestration by marshes and mangroves, and explaining and predicting long- and medium-term changes in marsh and mangrove area cover. I have a strong interest in the human interactions with coastal wetlands, including wellbeing associations and how ecosystem management impacts on ecosystem service delivery. My work includes fundamental experimentation with ecosystem simulations in the field and hydrological flumes, use of historical data, records and systematic observations for understanding long-term processes in coastal systems.

 

Research Areas

Marine Ecology

Marine Conservation and Resource Management

Sediment Dynamics and Morphology

 

  1. Cyhoeddwyd

    Impact of climate change on UK estuaries: A review of past trends and potential projections

    Robins, P. E., Skov, M. W., Lewis, M. J., Gimenez, L., Davies, A. G., Malham, S. K., Neill, S. P., McDonald, J. E., Whitton, T. A., Jackson, S. E. & Jago, C. F., 17 Rhag 2015, Yn: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 169, t. 119-135

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    Impact of mangrove forest structure and landscape on macroplastics capture

    Cappa, P., Walton, M., Paler, M. K. O., Taboada, E. B., Hiddink, J. G. & Skov, M., 25 Awst 2023, (E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu) Yn: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 194, Part A, 115434.

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    Influence of species richness and environmental context on early survival of replanted mangroves at Gazi bay, Kenya.

    Kirui, B. Y., Huxham, M., Kairo, J. & Skov, M. W., 1 Mai 2008, Yn: Hydrobiologia. 603, t. 171-181

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    Intra- and inter-specific facilitation in mangroves may increase resilience to climate change threats.

    Huxham, M., Kumara, M. P., Jayatissa, L. P., Krauss, K. W., Kairo, J., Langat, J., Mencuccini, M., Skov, M. W. & Kirui, B., 12 Gorff 2010, Yn: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 365, 1549, t. 2127-2135

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  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    Intraspecific Root Trait Variability Along Environmental Gradients Affects Salt Marsh Resistance to Lateral Erosion

    de Battisti, D., Fowler, M. S., Jenkins, S. R., Skov, M. W., Rossi, M., Bouma, T. J., Neyland, P. J. & Griffin, J. N., 8 Mai 2019, Yn: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7, 150.

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    Is estuary shape important for (compound) flooding in estuaries?

    Barada, M., Robins, P., Skov, M. & Lewis, M., 11 Gorff 2022.

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    Large-scale predictions of salt-marsh carbon stock based on simple observations of plant community and soil type

    Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Duggan-Edwards, M., Pages, J. F., Harvey, R., Ladd, C. & Skov, M. W., 25 Ion 2019, Yn: Biogeosciences. 16, 2, t. 425-436 436 t.

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    Light grazing of saltmarshes increases the availability of nest sites for Common Redshank Tringa totanus, but reduces their quality

    Sharps, E., Garbutt, A., Hiddink, J. G., Smart, J. & Skov, M. W., 1 Ebr 2016, Yn: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 221, t. 71-78

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    Light grazing of saltmarshes is a direct and indirect cause of nest failure in Common Redshank Tringa totanus

    Sharps, E., Smart, J., Skov, M. W., Garbutt, A. & Hiddink, J. G., 2 Maw 2015, Yn: Ibis. 157, 2, t. 239-249

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    Livestock grazing alters multiple ecosystem properties and services in salt marshes: a meta-analysis

    Davidson, K. E., Fowler, M. S., Skov, M., Doerr, S. H., Beaumont, N. & Griffin, J. N., Hyd 2017, Yn: Journal of Applied Ecology. 54, 5, t. 1395-1405

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