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Acrónimo: GID-MAsBio
Correo: gr_doc.gid-masbio@urjc.es
Web: AccederNúmero de investigadores: 20Número de quinquenios: 42Número de Docentia: 34Número de sexenios investigación: 49Número de sexenios transferencia: 3
Coordinador/es:
Investigadores miembros:
- Ana Isabel García Cervigón
- Ana Sánchez Álvarez
- Isabel López-Rull
- Javier Sánchez Hernández
- José Gómez Sánchez
- José María Iriondo Alegría
- Luis Cayuela Delgado
- Luis García Quintanilla
- Luis Giménez Benavides
- Luis Merino Martín
- Marcos Méndez Iglesias
- María del Carmen Molina Cobos
- María Isabel Martínez Moreno
- María Prieto Álvaro
- Natalia González Benítez
- Rubén Torices Blanco
- Sergio Álvarez Ortega
- Tamara Mª Villaverde Hidalgo
Investigadores/Técnicos de apoyo contratados:
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Lars Markesteijn is a Distinguished Research Lecturer (Beatriz Galindo Fellow) in the Area of Biodiversity and Conservation, Rey Juan Carlos University, a Senior Lecturer of Forest Sciences at the School of 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).
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 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).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 (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL
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CURSO PLAN ASIGNATURA 2022-23 (2337) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL 2022-23 (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL CURSO PLAN ASIGNATURA 2021-22 (2106) GRADO EN CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (MOSTOLES) RESTAURACION DEL MEDIO NATURAL 2021-22 (2337) 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 (2119) GRADO EN CIENCIAS EXPERIMENTALES (MOSTOLES) ECOLOGIA 2020-21 (2336) 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: M1944Investigador/es principal/es:
Investigadores:
- Adrián Escudero Alcántara
- Ana María Sánchez Álvarez
- Silvia Matesanz García
- 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
- Miren Arantzazu López de Luzuriaga Gamboa
- Rubén Milla Gutiérrez
- Gregorio Aragón Rubio
Investigadores o Técnicos:
- Guillermo Asens Casado
- Christian Schöb
- Sergio Muriel Marín
- María Luisa Rubio Teso
- Marina Ramos Muñoz
- Angela Illuminati .
- Fernando Cortés Fossati
- Lars Markesteijn
- Ezequiel Antorán Pilar
- Joaquín Manuel Calatayud Ortega
- Clara Rodríguez Arribas
- Mario Blanco Sánchez
- Pilar Hurtado Aragüés
Otros colaboradores:
- Rosina Magaña Ugarte
- Sandra Sacristán Bajo
- María Laura Ortiz Díaz
- Michael John Obrien
- Raúl García Camacho
- David Sánchez Pescador
- Guillermo Bañares de Dios
- Patricia González Díaz
- Lidia Plaza Agúndez
- Fernando Pomeda Gutiérrez
- Verónica Cruz Alonso
- Roberto López Rubio
- Jesús López Angulo
- Javier Morente López
- Marcelino de la Cruz Rot
Fecha inicio: 15/06/22
Fecha fin: 14/06/24
Entidad financiadora: COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
Referencia externa:
Referencia interna: M2734Investigador/es principal/es:
Investigadores:
Investigadores o Técnicos:
Otros colaboradores:
- Itziar Arnelas Seco
Fecha inicio: 01/01/21
Fecha fin: 31/12/24
Entidad financiadora: COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
Referencia externa:
Referencia interna: M2411Investigador/es principal/es:
Investigadores:
Investigadores o Técnicos:
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.
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