Dr Martin Skov

Uwch Ddarlithydd

Contact info

Room: 408 Westbury Mount      Phone: 01248 383846

E-mail: mwskov@bangor.ac.uk

Web: Google Scholar

 

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. 2022
  2. Cyhoeddwyd

    Tidal water exchange drives fish and crustacean abundances in salt marshes

    de la Barra, P., Skov, M., Lawrence, P., Schiaffi, J. I. & Hiddink, J. G., 11 Awst 2022, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 694, t. 61-72

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  3. Cyhoeddwyd

    Using citizen science to estimate surficial soil blue carbon stocks in Great British saltmarshes

    Smeaton, C., Burden, A., Ruranska, P., Ladd, C. J. T., Garbutt, A., Jones, L., McMahon, L., Miller, L. C., Skov, M. & Austin, W. E. N., 11 Awst 2022, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 16 t., 959459.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  4. Cyhoeddwyd

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

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

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddMurlenadolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    The importance of estuary shape in evaluating the flood risk in estuaries

    Barada, M., Robins, P., Skov, M. & Lewis, M., 24 Mai 2022.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddCrynodebadolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Saltmarsh Blue Carbon in UK and NW Europe - evidence synthesis for a UK Saltmarsh

    Mason, V., Wood, K. A., Jupe, L. L., Burden, A. & Skov, M., 6 Mai 2022, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bangor.

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  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    Coastal Agricultural Landscapes:: Mapping and understanding grazing intensity on Welsh Saltmarshes

    McKinley, E., Harvey, R., Ballinger, R., Davidson, K., Griffin, J. & Skov, M., 1 Mai 2022, Yn: Ocean and Coastal Management. 222, 106128.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  8. Cyhoeddwyd

    When One Health Meets the United Nations Ocean Decade: Global Agendas as a Pathway to Promote Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Nature Relationships

    Masterson Algar, P., Jenkins, S., Windle, G., Morris-Webb, E., Takahashi, C. K., Burke, T., Rosa, I., Martinez, A. S., Torres-Mattos, E. B., Taddei, R., Morrison, V., Kasten, P., Bryning, L., Cruz de Oliveira, N. R., Gonçalves, L. R., Skov, M., Beynon-Davies, C., Bumbeer, J., Saldiva, P. H. N., Leão, E. & Christofoletti, R., 6 Ebr 2022, Yn: Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 809009.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  9. Cyhoeddwyd

    Functional responses of mangrove fauna to forest degradation

    Barbanera, A., Markesteijn, L., Kairo, J., Juma, G. A., Karythis, S. & Skov, M., 17 Maw 2022, Yn: Marine and Freshwater Research.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    Flood scenario modelling in estuaries based on different management strategies

    Barada, M., Robins, P., Skov, M. & Lewis, M., Maw 2022, t. 29.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddCrynodebadolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  11. Cyhoeddwyd

    Future mangrove carbon storage under climate change and deforestation

    Chatting, M., Al-Maslamani, I., Walton, M., Skov, M., Kennedy, H., Husrevoglu, S. & Le Vay, L., 10 Chwef 2022, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 14 t., 781876.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid