Dr Lars Markesteijn

Senior Lecturer in Forest Science

Contact info

Thoday Building, room S10

Email: 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).

  1. Fellowship Juan de la Cierva sub-programme

    Markesteijn, Lars (Recipient), 2013

    Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

  2. Grant NWO Rubicon 

    Markesteijn, Lars (Recipient), 2010

    Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

  3. Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Researcher Fellowship

    Markesteijn, Lars (Recipient), 16 May 2020

    Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

  4. Independent Research Grant by the Community of Madrid

    Markesteijn, Lars (Recipient), 1 Jan 2021

    Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

  5. STRI Fellowship

    Markesteijn, Lars (Recipient), 2013

    Prize: Appointment

  6. SÊR Cymru II - COFUND

    Markesteijn, Lars (Recipient), 2016

    Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively