Dr Lars Markesteijn
Senior Lecturer in Forest Science
Affiliations
Contact info
Thoday Building, room S10Email: l.markesteijn@bangor.ac.uk
Tel: 01248 382337 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 382337 (International)
Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate
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).
- 2012
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The Secret Life of the Rainforest
Lars Markesteijn (Contributor)
16 Jul 2012Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
- 2013
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Drought tolerance of tropical tree species
Lars Markesteijn (Speaker)
25 Feb 2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Drought tolerance of tropical tree species; functional traits, tradeoffs and species distribution
Lars Markesteijn (Contributor)
30 Apr 2013Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
- 2016
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Extreme drought effects on Mediterranean tree species and its modulation by microclimate and fragmentation
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
10 Nov 2016Activity: Examination
- 2017
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Influence of canopy richness on regeneration and coexistence of woody species in European forests
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
15 Sept 2017Activity: Examination
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Explaining tropical tree diversity
Lars Markesteijn (Speaker)
1 Dec 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
- 2018
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Delineating protected honey-bee reserves at a regional scale. PhD.
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
1 Feb 2018 → …Activity: Examination
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Effect of freeze-thaw events on microbial activities in polar soils
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
1 Mar 2018 → …Activity: Examination
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Innovation in commercial soil health analysis and practical on farm guidance.
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
1 May 2018 → …Activity: Examination
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Newton Fund International Workshop on Dry Forests
Lars Markesteijn (Participant)
18 Jul 2018 → 20 Jul 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
- 2019
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Special variation of floodplain vegetation in Nong thung tong non-hunting area, peninsular Thailand
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
12 Jun 2019Activity: Examination
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Overview of forestry distance learning at Bangor University
James Walmsley (Speaker), James Brockington (Speaker), Lars Markesteijn (Speaker), Eefke Mollee (Speaker) & Mark Rayment (Speaker)
18 Jul 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
- 2020
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Fungal pathogens and insect herbivores mediate seedling dynamics and diversity patterns along a tropical forest humidity gradient
Lars Markesteijn (Invited speaker)
4 Mar 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (Journal)
Lars Markesteijn (Editorial board member)
Apr 2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
- 2022
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Microbial plant-soil feedbacks affect secondary succession of tropical rainforests
Anita Weissflog (Speaker), Bettina Engelbrecht (Speaker), John Healey (Speaker) & Lars Markesteijn (Speaker)
12 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Drought and soil phosphorus explain variation in functional trait-vital rate relationships in tropical tree seedlings
Luke Browne (Speaker), Lars Markesteijn (Speaker), Eric Manzané-Pinzón (Speaker), S. Joseph Wright (Speaker), Robert Bagchi (Speaker), Bettina Engelbrecht (Speaker), Frank Andrew Jones (Speaker) & Liza S. Comita (Speaker)
16 Aug 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (Journal)
Lars Markesteijn (Editorial board member)
Sept 2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity