Forestry@Bangor

Professors

• Prof John Healey, Professor of Forest Sciences.
• Prof Morag McDonald, Professor of Ecology & Catchment Management.
• Prof Andy Smith, Professor of Forest Ecology.

Senior Lecturers & Senior Research Fellows

• Dr Norman Dandy, Senior Research Fellow in Sustainable Land Use.
• Dr Farnon Ellwood, Senior Lecturer in Ecology & Conservation.
• Dr Lars Markesteijn, Senior Lecturer in Forest Sciences.
• Dr Tim Pagella, Senior Lecturer in Forestry.
• Dr Mark Rayment, Senior Lecturer in Forestry.
• Dr Fergus Sinclair, Senior Lecturer in Agroforestry.
• Dr James Walmsley, Senior Lecturer in Forestry.

Lecturers & Research Fellows

• Dr Alec Dauncey, Lecturer in Forestry.
• Dr Heli Gittins, Lecturer.
• Dr Ashley Hardaker, Lecturer in Land Management Planning and Economics.
• Dr Eefke Mollee, Lecturer in Agroforestry.
• Dr Tim Peter, Lecturer in Woodland Management.
• Dr Marielle Smith, Lecturer in Forest Sciences.
• Dr Eleanor Warren-Thomas, Lecturer in Conservation & Forestry.
• Dr Bid Webb, Lecturer.

Post-doctoral Researchers

• Dr Amin Soltangheisi
• Dr Martin Lampert
• Dr Seumas Bates

Research Technicians

• Dr Adam Pinder
• Mr Keegan Blazey
• Miss Anna Ray

• Gloria Adeyiga
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Jack Aitkin-Willoughby 
  • Project: Restoring for a resilient future: Woodland community assembly trajectories in the face of multiple stressors.
  • Supervisors: Prof Andy Smith, Prof John Healey, Dr Mike Perring (UKCEH) & Prof Laurence Jones (UKCEH).
• Matt Cooper 
  • Project: Investigating the potential of forested lands for natural flood management in Wales.
  • Supervisors: Dr Sopan Patil, Prof Andy Smith & Prof Morag McDonald.
• Matilda Edwards
  • Project: Establishing the relative importance of a rainforest microcosm in oil palm plantations.
  • Supervisors: Dr Farnon Ellwood, Prof Andy Smith, Dr Kara Marsden & Dr Sabine Reich (UKCEH).
• Dan Fishburn
  • Project: Modulating role of lithology in the response of Mediterranean forest to climate change.
  • Supervisors: Dr Lars Markesteijn, Dr Ana Rey  & Prof Andy Smith.
• Eilidh Forster
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Prof John Healey.
• Sam Hollick 
  • Project: Optimising landscape shelterbelts to sustainably increase farm livestock productivity and build resilience to extreme events.
  • Supervisors: Prof Andy Smith & Dr Mark Rayment.
• Daniel Iddon
  • Project: Living Soil.
  • Supervisors: Prof Andy Smith, Prof Dave Chadwick & Dr Tim Peters.
• Yawo Jonky Tenou
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Endri Martini
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Tonthoza Uganja
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Swati Renduchintala
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Harry Skinner
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Aulia Soebandhi
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Yiting Su
  • Project: Tree species identification using optical remote sensing and LiDAR.
  • Supervisor: Prof Andy Smith.
• Nisabhat Tonwoot
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Unknown.
• Catherine Walker
  • Project: Unknown.
  • Supervisor: Prof John Healey.
• Xingguang Yan
  • Project: Estimation of forest ecosystem carbon stocks using remotely sensed data, machine learning and the Google Earth Engine.
  • Supervisor: Prof Andy Smith.

• Plaga, B, Bauhus, J, Smith, A, Gonzalez Pereira, M & Forrester, D 2023, 'Drought-related mortality modifies mixing effects on light absorption and growth in mono-specific and mixed stands of Fagus sylvatica, Alnus glutinosa and Betula pendula.', Forestry.

• Ning, Y, Liu, S, Smith, A, Qiu, Y, Gao, H, Yuan, W, Lu, Y, Yuan, W & Feng, S 2023, 'Dynamic multi-dimensional scaling of 30+ year evolution of Chinese urban systems: patterns and performance', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 863, 160705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160705

• Yan, X, Li, J, Smith, A, Yang, D, Ma, T, Su, Y & Shao, J 2023, 'Evaluation of machine learning methods and multi-source remote sensing data combinations to construct forest above-ground biomass models', International Journal of Digital Earth, vol. 16, no. 2, 4471-4491. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2023.2270459

• Gao, L, Smith, A, Jones, DL, Guo, Y, Lui, B, Guo, Z, Chunnan, F, Zheng, J, Cui, X & Hill, P 2023, 'How do tree species with different successional stages affect soil organic nitrogen transformations?', Geoderma, vol. 430, no. 116319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116319

• Peng, X, Jiang, S, Liu, S, Valbuena, R, Smith, A, Zhan, Y, Shi, Y, Ning, Y, Feng, S, Gao, H & Wang, Z 2023, 'Long-term satellite observations show continuous increase of vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 898, 165515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165515

• Forster, E, Healey, J, Newman, G & Styles, D 2023, 'Circular wood use can accelerate global decarbonisation but requires cross-sectoral coordination', Nature Communications

• Cracknell, D, Peterken, G, Pommerening, A, Lawrence, P & Healey, J 2023, 'Neighbours matter and the weak succumb: Ash dieback infection is more severe in ash trees with fewer conspecific neighbours and lower prior growth rate', Journal of Ecology, vol. 111, no. 10, pp. 2118-2133. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14191

• Ford, H, Gove, JM, Healey, J, Davies, A, Graham, N & Williams, GJ 2023, 'Recurring bleaching events disrupt the spatial properties of coral reef benthic communities across scales', Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.355

• Smith, C, Barlow, J, Schwartz, N, Healey, J, Young, P & Miranda, L 2023, 'Amazonian secondary forests are greatly reducing fragmentation and edge exposure in old-growth forests', Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad039e

• Vinod, N, Slot, M, McGregor, I, Ordway, E, Smith, M, Taylor, TC, Sack, L, Buckley, T & Anderson-Teixeira, K 2023, 'Thermal sensitivity across forest vertical profiles: patterns, mechanisms, and ecological implications', New Phytologist, vol. 237, no. 1, pp. 22-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18539

• Costa, FRC, Schietti, J, Stark, SC & Smith, M 2023, 'The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large-scale hydrological refugia from drought?', New Phytologist, vol. 237, no. 3, pp. 714-733. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17914

• Smith, M, Stark, SC, Taylor, TC, Schietti, J, Almeida, DRA, Aragon, S, Torralvo, K, Lima, A, de Oliveira, G, de Assis, RL, Leitold, V, Pontes-Lopes, A, Scoles, R, de Sousa Vieira, LC, Resende, AF, Coppola, AI, Brandao, DO, Junior, JDAS, Lobato, LF, Freitas, W, Almeida, D, Souza, MS, Minor, DM, Villegas, JC, Law, DJ, Goncalves, N, da Rocha, DG, Guedes, MC, Tonini, H, da Silva, KE, van Haren, J, Rosa, DM, do Valle, DF, Cordeiro, CL, de Lima, NZ, Shao, G, Menor, IO, Conti, G, Florentino, AP, Montti, L, Aragao, LEOC, McMahon, SMM, Parker, GG, Breshears, DD, Da Costa, ACL, Magnusson, WE, Mesquita, R, Camargo, JLC, de Oliveira, RC, de Camargo, PB, Saleska, SR & Nelson, BW 2023, 'Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2590

• Donghao Wu, D, Seibold, S, Pietsch, K, Ellwood, MDF & Yu, M 2023, 'Tree species richness increases spatial variation but not overall wood decomposition', Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

• Martini, E, Pagella, T, Mollee, E & van Noordwijk, M 2023, 'Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?', Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 65, 101363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101363

• Critchley, W, Harari, N, Mollee, E, Bern, U & Bern, U 2023, 'Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation for Small-Scale Land Users in Sub-Saharan Africa', Land, vol. 12, no. 6, 1206. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061206

• Browne, L, Markesteijn, L, Manzané-Pinzón, E, Wright, SJ, Bagchi, R, Engelbrecht, B, Jones, FA & Comita, LS 2023, 'Widespread variation in functional trait-vital rate relationships in tropical tree seedlings across a precipitation and soil phosphorus gradient', Functional Ecology, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 248-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14213

• Gittins, H, Dandy, N, Wynne-Jones, S & Morrison, V 2023, '“You don't have to perform for the trees”: The longer-term effects of nature-based interventions on wellbeing', Wellbeing, Space & Society, vol. 5, 100160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2023.100160

• Gittins, H, Dandy, N, Wynne-Jones, S & Morrison, V 2023, '“It's opened my eyes to what's out there”: How do nature-based interventions influence access to and perceptions of the natural environment?', Wellbeing, Space & Society, vol. 4, 100125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2022.100125

• Hartfiel, N, Gittins, H, Morrison, V, Wynne-Jones, S, Edwards, RT & Dandy, N 2023, 'Social Return on Investment of Nature-Based Activities for Adults with Mental Wellbeing Challenges', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 20, no. 15, 6500. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20156500