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. 2019
  2. Published

    Sediment supply explains long-term and large-scale patterns in saltmarsh lateral expansion and erosion

    Ladd, C. J. T., Duggan Edwards, M. F., Bouma, T. J., Pages, J. F. & Skov, M. W., 28 Oct 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 20, p. 11178-11187

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    The Intertidal Zone of the North-East Atlantic Region: Pattern and Process

    Hawkins, S. J., Pack, K. E., Firth, L. B., Mieszkowska, N., Evans, A. J., Martins, G. M., Åberg, P., Adams, L. C., Arenas, F., Boaventura, D. M., Bohn, K., Borges, C. D. G., Castro, J. J., Coleman, R. A., Crowe, T. P., Cruz, T., Davies, M. S., Epstein, G., Faria, J., Ferreira, J. G., Frost, N. J., Griffin, J. N., Hanley, ME., Herbert, R. J. H., Hyder, K., Johnson, M. P., Lima, F. P., Masterson-Algar, P., Moore, P. J., Moschella, P. S., Notman, G. M., Pannacciulli, F. G., Ribeiro, P. A., Santos, A. M., Silva, A. C. F., Skov, M. W., Sugden, H., Vale, M., Wangkulangkul, K., Wort, E. J. G., Thompson, R. C., Hartnoll, R. G., Burrows, M. T. & Jenkins, S. R., Sept 2019, Interactions in the Marine Benthos: Global Patterns and Processes. Hawkins, S. J., Bohn, K., Firth, L. B. & Williams, G. A. (eds.). 1 ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 87. p. 7-46 40 p. (Systematics Assocations; vol. Special Volume 87).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Published

    Intraspecific Root Trait Variability Along Environmental Gradients Affects Salt Marsh Resistance to Lateral Erosion

    de Battisti, D., Fowler, M. S., Jenkins, S. R., Skov, M. W., Rossi, M., Bouma, T. J., Neyland, P. J. & Griffin, J. N., 8 May 2019, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7, 150.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Science to Policy: Salt Marsh Resilience and Coastal Management

    Wiik, E., Toberman, H., Skov, M., Jenkins, S., Pages Fauria, J., Ballinger, R., McKinley, E., Hall, C., Griffin, J., Fowler, M. S., de Battisti, D. & Garbutt, A., Mar 2019, Ser Cymru National Research Network for Low Carbon, Energy and Environment. (Science to Policy)

    Research output: Book/ReportCommissioned report

  8. Published

    Large-scale predictions of salt-marsh carbon stock based on simple observations of plant community and soil type

    Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Duggan-Edwards, M., Pages, J. F., Harvey, R., Ladd, C. & Skov, M. W., 25 Jan 2019, In: Biogeosciences. 16, 2, p. 425-436 436 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. 2018
  10. Published

    Climate change and marine conservation: Saltmarsh

    Ladd, C., Skov, M., Lewis, H. & Leegwater, E., 1 Oct 2018, MCCIP. 8 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportCommissioned reportpeer-review

  11. 2017
  12. Published

    Livestock grazing alters multiple ecosystem properties and services in salt marshes: a meta-analysis

    Davidson, K. E., Fowler, M. S., Skov, M., Doerr, S. H., Beaumont, N. & Griffin, J. N., Oct 2017, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 54, 5, p. 1395-1405

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. 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