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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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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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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Soil carbon stock do not reflect aboveground forest biomass across geological and rainfall gradients: Carbon stocks correspond to soil characteristics
Cusack, D. F., Markesteijn, L. & Turner, B., Dec 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › 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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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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Fungal pathogens and insect herbivores mediate seedling dynamics and diversity patterns along a tropical forest humidity gradient
Markesteijn, L. & Lewis, O. T., 4 Jul 2018.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Insect herbivory and predation pressure across a tropical rainfall and tree species richness gradient
Weissflog, A., Markesteijn, L., Lewis, O. T. & Engelbrecht, B. M. J., 23 Feb 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Natural enemies affect plant diversity and density dependence along a tropical precipitation gradient
Bagchi, R., Markesteijn, L. & Lewis, O., 16 Aug 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Natural enemies shape changes in plant diversity across a humidity gradient in central Panama
Markesteijn, L. & Lewis, O. T., 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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The relationship of leaf venation architecture to life history in tropical dry forest trees
Sack, L., Markesteijn, L., Rawls, M., Scoffoni, C., Barlett, M. & Poorter, L., 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review