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Acrónimo: Comunnity
Correo: gr_inv.comunnity@urjc.es
Web: AccederNúmero de investigadores: 25Número de quinquenios: 18Número de Docentia: 13Número de sexenios investigación: 20Número de sexenios transferencia: 1
Coordinador/es:
Investigadores miembros:
- Adrián Escudero Alcántara
- Lars Markesteijn
- Miren Arantzazu López de Luzuriaga Gamboa
- Ana María Sánchez Álvarez
- Fernando Javier Valladares Ros
- Luis Cayuela Delgado
- Silvia Matesanz García
Investigadores colaboradores:
Investigadores/Técnicos de apoyo contratados:
Otros colaboradores:
- Marcelino de la Cruz Rot
- Enrique Valencia Gómez
- Julia María Chacón Labella
- Carlos Iván Espinosa Íñiguez
- Jose Miguel Olano Mendoza
- Ana María López Peralta
- Mario Blanco Sánchez
- Roberto López Rubio
- Marina Ramos Muñoz
- Carlos Díaz Palomo
- Yolanda Valiñani Montero
- María Laura Ortiz Díaz
- Beatriz Pías Couso
- Lohengrin A Cavieres Gonzalez
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Lars Markesteijn is Associate Professor in Ecology in the Area of Biodiversity and Conservation, and Global Change Research Institute (IICG), at the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC), a Senior Lecturer of Forest Sciences at the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University (United Kingdom) and an affiliated researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama.
Lars holds a Ph.D. in Tropical Forest Ecology and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Tropical Land Use from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He 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), and he was a Distinguished Research Professor (Beatriz Galindo Fellow) at the URJC.
His research interests are broad, but mainly cover tropical forest ecology, functional ecology, restoration ecology, and interactions between plants and their natural enemies. Lars is fascinated by biological diversity and consequently, most of his work is carried out in biologically complex tropical ecosystems, where he addresses the processes underlying the function and coexistence of tropical plants and mechanisms of the generation and maintenance of biodiversity.
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BiographyI obtained my Ph.D. in 2010 at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). In my dissertation, I addressed the functional ecology of tropical tree species, aiming to understand how species¿ drought and shade tolerance strategies explain species coexistence and distribution along resource gradients. In early 2010, I was awarded a 2-year Rubicon grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), that I used to collaborate with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) to study the role of plant hydraulics in explaining differences in drought performance between liana and tree species. Late in 2011, I moved to Spain where I visited the Ecology and Global Change group at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (MNCN-CSIC) in Madrid for a year. Early in 2013, I started working on the NERC-funded project, entitled `Natural enemies, climate and the maintenance of tropical tree diversity¿, at Community Ecology Research Oxford (CERO), University of Oxford, in collaboration with STRI. In this project we set out to test the hypothesis that humidity drives variation in tropical plant diversity through its influence on the interactions between plants and their natural enemies. The 2015-2016 El Niño event, and subsequent funding through a RAPID grant by the United States National Science Foundation (US NSF), provided a unique opportunity for a third postdoc to study the immediate effects of an extreme drought event on the physiological performance and regeneration dynamics of tropical plants along a rainfall gradient. This project resulted from a collaboration between Oregon State, Yale School of Forestry, Bayreuth University and STRI. In 2016, I joined the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences at Bangor University in 2016 as a Lecturer in Forest Sciences, and a SÊR Cymru MSCA CoFund Research Fellow, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019. Finally, in 2020 I joined the Area of Biodiversity and Conservation at the Department of Biology and Geography, Physics and Inorganic Chemistry, URJC, as a Distinguished Research Lecturer (Beatriz Galindo Fellow), and became a tenured professor in 2023.Qualifications2010 - Ph.D. Tropical forest ecology Wageningen University2005 - M.Sc. Tropical land use Wageningen University2002 - B.Sc. Tropical land use Wageningen UniversityAffiliationsBangor University, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Grado
PLAN ASIGNATURA (2026) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) I DEONTOLOGIA Y LEGISLACION AMBIENTAL (2026) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) I ECOLOGIA (2317) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) II DEONTOLOGIA Y LEGISLACION AMBIENTAL (2317) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) II ECOLOGIA (2365) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) III DEONTOLOGIA Y LEGISLACION AMBIENTAL (2365) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) III ECOLOGIA II (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) BIOLOGIA I (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) ECOLOGIA (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) ECOLOGIA (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL (2336) GRADO EN CIENCIAS EXPERIMENTALES (MOSTOLES) ECOLOGIA
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CURSO PLAN ASIGNATURA 2023-24 (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL 2023-24 (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL CURSO PLAN ASIGNATURA 2022-23 (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL 2022-23 (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL CURSO PLAN ASIGNATURA 2021-22 (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL 2021-22 (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL CURSO PLAN ASIGNATURA 2020-21 (2026) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) I IMPACTO DE LA ACTIVIDAD HUMANA EN LA BIOSFERA: PROCESOS DE CAMBIO GLOBAL 2020-21 (2317) GRADO EN BIOLOGIA (MOSTOLES) II IMPACTO DE LA ACTIVIDAD HUMANA EN LA BIOESFERA: PROCESOS DE CAMBIO GLOBAL 2020-21 (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL 2020-21 (2336) GRADO EN CIENCIAS EXPERIMENTALES (MOSTOLES) ECOLOGIA 2020-21 (2119) GRADO EN CIENCIAS EXPERIMENTALES (MOSTOLES) ECOLOGIA
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Fecha inicio: 01/01/19
Fecha fin: 30/04/23
Entidad financiadora: COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
Referencia externa: S2018/EMT-4338
Referencia interna: M1944
Cuantía financiación: 473800 €Investigador/es principal/es:
Investigadores:
- Adrián Escudero Alcántara
- Alfredo García Fernández
- María Prieto Álvaro
- Rubén Torices Blanco
- María Isabel Martínez Moreno
- Marcos Méndez Iglesias
- Ana Isabel García-Cervigón Morales
- José María Iriondo Alegría
- Luis Cayuela Delgado
- Silvia Matesanz García
- Lars Markesteijn
- Ana María Sánchez Álvarez
- Miren Arantzazu López de Luzuriaga Gamboa
- Rubén Milla Gutiérrez
- Gregorio Aragón Rubio
Investigadores o Técnicos:
- Ezequiel Antorán Pilar
- Fernando Cortés Fossati
- María Luisa Rubio Teso
- Sergio Muriel Marín
- Christian Schöb
- Raúl García Camacho
- Jesús López Angulo
- Joaquín Manuel Calatayud Ortega
- Pilar Hurtado Aragüés
- Angela Illuminati
Otros colaboradores:
- Michael John Obrien
- David Sánchez Pescador
- Guillermo Bañares de Dios
- Patricia González Díaz
- Lidia Plaza Agúndez
- Fernando Pomeda Gutiérrez
- Marina Ramos Muñoz
- Mario Blanco Sánchez
- Verónica Cruz Alonso
- Roberto López Rubio
- Sandra Sacristán Bajo
- Rosina Magaña Ugarte
- Guillermo Asens Casado
- Clara Rodríguez Arribas
- Javier Morente López
- Marcelino de la Cruz Rot
- María Laura Ortiz Díaz
Fecha inicio: 15/06/22
Fecha fin: 14/06/24
Entidad financiadora: COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
Referencia externa:
Referencia interna: M2734
Cuantía financiación: 23540 €Investigador/es principal/es:
Investigadores:
Otros colaboradores:
- Itziar Arnelas Seco
Fecha inicio: 01/09/23
Fecha fin: 31/08/25
Entidad financiadora: AGENCIA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACION
Referencia externa: CNS2022-135838
Referencia interna: M3174
Cuantía financiación: 154396 €Investigador/es principal/es:
Investigadores:
- Luis Merino Martín
- Adrián Escudero Alcántara
- Natalia González Benítez
- Lars Markesteijn
- Luis Cayuela Delgado
Investigadores o Técnicos:
Otros colaboradores:
- Andrea Katherine Jara Guerrero
- Jose Maria Grünzweig
- ENRIQUE DE LA MONTAÑA ANDRES
- Carlos Iván Espinosa Íñiguez
- ANA MARIA REY SIMO
Fecha inicio: 01/01/21
Fecha fin: 31/12/24
Entidad financiadora: COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
Referencia externa:
Referencia interna: M2411
Cuantía financiación: 158450 €Investigador/es principal/es:
Investigadores:
Otros colaboradores:
- Carlos Iván Espinosa Iñiguez
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- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LeSDyGoAAAAJ&hl=en
- ORCID: 0000-0003-3046-3121
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Publicaciones
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A selection of relevant publications:Browne, L., Markesteijn, L., Manzané-Pinzón, E., Wright, S. J., Bagchi, R., Engelbrecht, B. M. J., Jones, F. A., & Comita, L. S. (2022). Widespread variation in functional trait¿vital rate relationships in tropical tree seedlings across a precipitation and soil phosphorus gradient. Functional Ecology, 00, 1¿ 13.Barbanera A., Markesteijn L., Kairo J., Juma G. A., Karythis S., Skov M. W. (2022) Functional responses of mangrove fauna to forest degradation. Marine and Freshwater Research 73, 762-773.Weissflog, A., Markesteijn, L., Aiello, A., Healey, J., & Geipel, I. (2022). Do prey shape, time of day, and plant trichomes affect the predation rate on plasticine prey in tropical rainforests? Biotropica, 54, 1259¿ 1269.Browne L, Markesteijn L, Engelbrecht BMJ, Jones FA, Lewis OT, Manzane E, Wright SJ, Comita L. 2021. Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015-2016 El Niño. Global Change Biology, 27, 5043-5053Kattge, J, Bönisch, G, Díaz, S, et al. (2020) TRY plant trait database ¿ enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology; 26: 119¿ 188Van der Sande, M. T., Poorter, L., Schnitzer, S. A., Engelbrecht, B. M. J., & Markesteijn, L. (2019). The hydraulic efficiency¿safety trade-off differs between lianas and trees. Ecology, 100(5), e02666.Weissflog, A., Markesteijn, L., Lewis, O. T., Comita, L. S., & Engelbrecht, B. M. J. (2018). Contrasting patterns of insect herbivory and predation pressure across a tropical rainfall gradient. Biotropica, 50(2), 302-311.Cusack, D. F., Markesteijn, L., Condit, R., Lewis, O. T., & Turner, B. L. (2018). Soil carbon stocks in tropical forests regulated by base cation effects on fine roots. Biogeochemistry, 137(1-2), 253-266.Sterck, F., Markesteijn, L., Toledo, M., & Poorter, L. (2014). Sapling performance along resource gradients drives tree species distributions within and across tropical forests. Ecology, 95(9), 2514-2525.Van der Sande, M. T., Poorter, L., Schnitzer, S. A., & Markesteijn, L. (2013). Are lianas more drought-tolerant than trees? A test for the role of hydraulic architecture and other stem and leaf traits. Oecologia, 172(4), 961-972.