Dr Martin Skov

Reader in Marine Biology

Contact info

Room: 408 Westbury Mount      Phone: 01248 383846

E-mail: mwskov@bangor.ac.uk

Web: Google Scholar

 

I did a BSc (1st Class Hons) in marine biology with Bangor University in 1996, which followed by a PhD in mangrove ecology with Liverpool University in 2001. My postdoctoral career took me through a two year research fellowship with Lisbon University in Portugal, studying crustacean recruitment dynamics, a one year postdoc with Bangor University on phytoplankton research, and a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship with Southampton University, in which I used intertidal snails and biofilms to test model predictions related to resource distribution and habitat fragmentation. I returned to Bangor University in 2009 for a Research Lectureship, which in January 2013 led to a permanent lectureship and later a Senior Lectureship with the School of Ocean Sciences.

I am an experimental ecologist with particular interests in the ecological functioning and ecosystem services of coastal salt marshes, mangroves and seagrasses. My research focuses particularly on regulators of landscape-scale functioning, such as examining what determines the delivery of natural coastal protection and carbon sequestration by marshes and mangroves, and explaining and predicting long- and medium-term changes in marsh and mangrove area cover. I have a strong interest in the human interactions with coastal wetlands, including wellbeing associations and how ecosystem management impacts on ecosystem service delivery. My work includes fundamental experimentation with ecosystem simulations in the field and hydrological flumes, use of historical data, records and systematic observations for understanding long-term processes in coastal systems.

 

Research Areas

Marine Ecology

Marine Conservation and Resource Management

Sediment Dynamics and Morphology

 

  1. Published

    Mangrove carbon stocks and biomass partitioning in an extreme environment

    Chatting, M., Le Vay, L., Walton, M., Skov, M., Kennedy, H., Wilson, S. & Al Maslamani, I., 5 Oct 2020, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 244, 106940.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Microplastics alter multiple biological processes of marine benthic fauna

    Mason, V., Skov, M., Hiddink, J. G. & Walton, M., 1 Nov 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 845, 157362.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Modelling Different Flood Management Scenarios in Estuaries

    Barada, M., Robins, P., Skov, M. & Lewis, M., Nov 2021.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  4. Published

    Multiple trait dimensions mediate stress gradient effects on plant biomass allocation, with implications for coastal ecosystem services.

    de Battisti, D., Fowler, M. S., Jenkins, S., Skov, M., Bouma, T. J., Neyland, P. J. & Griffin, J., Jul 2020, In: Journal of Ecology. 108, 4, p. 1227-1240

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Nest trampling and ground nesting birds: quantifying temporal and spatial overlap between cattle activity and breeding redshank

    Sharps, E., Smart, J., Mason, L. R., Jones, K., Skov, M., Garbutt, A. & Hiddink, J., Aug 2017, In: Ecology and Evolution. 7, 16, p. 6622-6633

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    No detectable broad-scale effect of livestock grazing on soil blue-carbon stock in salt marshes.

    Harvey, R. J., Garbutt, A., Hawkins, S. J. & Skov, M. W., 10 May 2019, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7, 151.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Opposing indirect effects of domestic herbivores on saltmarsh erosion

    Pages Fauria, J., Jenkins, S., Bouma, T., Sharps, E. & Skov, M., 15 Aug 2019, In: Ecosystems. p. 1055-1068

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Organic Carbon Stocks of Great British Saltmarshes

    Smeaton, C., Miller, L. C., McMahon, L., Garrett, E., Barlow, N. L. M., Gehrels, W. R., Skov, M. & Austin, W. E. N., 4 Dec 2023, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 10, 1229486.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Organic carbon accumulation in British saltmarshes

    Smeaton, C., Garrett, E., Koot, M. B., Ladd, C. J. T., Miller, L. C., McMahon, L., Foster, B., Barlow, N. L. M., Blake, W., Gehrels, W. R., Skov, M. W. & Austin, W. E. N., 20 May 2024, In: Science of the Total Environment. 926, p. 172104

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Outwelling from arid mangrove systems is sustained by inwelling of seagrass productivity

    Walton, M. E., Al-Maslamani, I., Skov, M. W., Al-Shaikh, I., Al-Ansari, I. S., Kennedy, H. A. & Le Vay, L., 17 Jul 2014, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 507, p. 125-137

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review