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 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).
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Functional responses of mangrove fauna to forest degradation
Barbanera, A., Markesteijn, L., Kairo, J., Juma, G. A., Karythis, S. & Skov, M., 17 Mar 2022, In: Marine and Freshwater Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of the 2015-2016 El Niño on seedling dynamics across a rainfall gradient on Central Panama
Comita, L. S., Engelbrecht, B. M. J., Markesteijn, L., Manzane, E., Wright, S. J. & Jones, F. A., Dec 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Effects of pathogens and insect herbivores on plant dynamics and diversity across a natural rainfall gradient
Lewis, O. T. & Markesteijn, L., 23 Feb 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits
Markesteijn, L., Poorter, L., Paz, H., Sack, L. & Bongers, F., Jan 2011, In: Plant Cell and Environment. 34, 1, p. 137-148Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Drought-tolerance of tropical tree species: Functional traits, trade-offs and species distribution
Markesteijn, L., 3 Feb 2010, Wageningen, the Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. 189 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Do prey shape, time of day, and plant trichomes affect the predation rate on plasticine prey in tropical rainforests?
Weissflog, A., Markesteijn, L., Aiello, A., Healey, J. & Geipel, I., 22 Sept 2022, In: Biotropica. 54, 5, p. 1259-1269Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Diverging drought-tolerance strategies explain tree species distribution along a fog-dependent moisture gradient in a temperate rain forest
Salgado Negret, B., Perez, F., Markesteijn, L., Jimenez Castillo, M. & Armesto, J. J., Nov 2013, In: Oecologia. 173, 3, p. 625-635Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Contrasting patterns of insect herbivory and predation pressure across a tropical rainfall gradient
Weissflog, A., Markesteijn, L., Lewis, O. T., Comita, L. S. & Engelbrecht, B. M. J., Mar 2018, In: Biotropica. 50, 2, p. 302-311Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Contrasting patterns of insect herbivory and predation acroiss a tropical rainfall and tree species richness gradient
Weissflog, A., Markesteijn, L., Lewis, O. T. & Engelbrecht, B. M. J., 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants
Falster, D. S., Duursma, R. A., Ishihara, M. I., Barneche, D. R., Fitzjohn, R. G., Varhammar, A., Aiba, M., Ando, M., Anten, N., Aspinwall, M. J., Baltzer, J. L., Baraloto, C., Battles, J. J., Bond-Lamberty, B., van Breugel, M. (ed.), Camac, J., Claveau, Y., Coll, L., Dannoura, M., Delagrange, S., Domec, J-C., Fatemi, F., Feng, W., Gargaglione, V., Goto, Y., Hagihara, A., Hall, J. S., Hamilton, S., Harja, D., Hiura, T., Holdaway, R., Hutley, L. S., Ichie, T., Jokela, E. J., Kantola, A., Kelly, J. W. G., Kenzo, T., King, D., Kloeppel, B. D., Kohyama, T., Komiyama, A., Laclau, J-P., Lusk, C. H., Maguire, D. A., Le Maire, G., Makela, A., Markesteijn, L., Marshall, J., McCulloh, K., Miyata, I., Mokany, K., Mori, S., Myster, R. W., Nagano, M., Naidu, S. L., Nouvellon, Y., O'Grady, A. P., O'Hara, K. L., Ohtsuka, T., Osada, N., Osunkoya, O. O., Peri, P. L., Petrotan, A. M., Poorter, L., Portsmuth, A., Potvin, C., Ransijn, J., Reid, D., Ribeiro, S. C., Roberts, S. D., Rodriguez, R., Saldama-Acosta, A., Santa-Regino, I., Sasa, K., Selaya, N. G., Sillett, S. C., Sterck, F., Takagi, K., Tange, T., Tanouchi, H., Tissue, D., Umehara, T., Utsugi, H., Vadeboncoeur, M. A., Valladares, F., Vanninen, P., Wang, J. R., Wenk, E., Williams, R., De Aquino Ximenes, F., Yamaba, A., Yamada, T., Yamakura, T., Yanai, R. D. & York, R. A., May 2015, In: Ecology. 96, 5, p. 1445Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are lianas more drought-tolerant than trees? A test for the role of hydraulic architecture and other stem and leaf traits
van der Sande, M. T., Poorter, L., Schnitzer, S. A. & Markesteijn, L., Aug 2013, In: Oecologia. 172, 4, p. 961-972Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review