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)
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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).
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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
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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
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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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Extreme drought effects on Mediterranean tree species and its modulation by microclimate and fragmentation
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
10 Nov 2016Activity: Examination
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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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Innovation in commercial soil health analysis and practical on farm guidance.
Lars Markesteijn (Examiner)
1 May 2018 → …Activity: Examination
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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
- 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