Dr Martin Skov
Uwch Ddarlithydd
Aelodaeth
Dolenni cyswllt
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 Conservation and Resource Management
Sediment Dynamics and Morphology
- 2013
The broad-scale impacts of livestock grazing on saltmarsh carbon stocks
Awdur: Kingham, R., 19 Rhag 2013Goruchwylydd: Skov, M. (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Doethur mewn Athroniaeth
- 2015
The effects of saltmarsh conservation grazing on breeding Common Redshank Tringa totanus
Awdur: Sharps, E., Ion 2015Goruchwylydd: Hiddink, J. (Goruchwylydd) & Skov, M. (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Doethur mewn Athroniaeth
- 2018
Patterns and processes of saltmarsh area change at three spatial scales
Awdur: Ladd, C. J. T., 2018Goruchwylydd: Skov, M. (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Doethur mewn Athroniaeth
- 2019
Erosional resilience of salt marshes: : Bio-physical processes from patch to national scales
Awdur: Duggan Edwards, M., 23 Medi 2019Goruchwylydd: Skov, M. (Goruchwylydd), Jenkins, S. (Goruchwylydd) & Garbutt, A. (Unigolyn allanol) (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Doethur mewn Athroniaeth
- 2022
Carbon stocks and productivity in mangroves under climate change: regional and global perspectives
Awdur: Chatting, M., 19 Rhag 2022Goruchwylydd: Le Vay, L. (Goruchwylydd), Skov, M. (Goruchwylydd) & Walton, M. (Goruchwylydd)
Traethawd ymchwil myfyriwr: Doethur mewn Athroniaeth