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Dr Mark Rayment

Senior Lecturer in Forestry

m.rayment@bangor.ac.uk

+44 1248 383634

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Dr Mark Rayment

View Dr Mark Rayment’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Additional Contact Information

Room: F8A, Thoday Building

Email: m.rayment@bangor.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383634

Silviculture, Agroforestry, Food Security

I am the director of a suite of Forestry@Bangor MSc programmes: MSc Agroforestry & Food Security, MSc Environmental Forestry, and MSc SUTROFOR (SUstainable TROpical FORestry).

I teach across a range of subjects from the fundamentals of forestry – silviculture and inventory – to environmental biophysics, and believe that a university lecturer is in the service of the students, no the other way around.

Research Areas:

  • Forestry
  • Environmental and Soil Science
  • Crops and Livestock

Teaching and Supervision

Course Director: 

  • MSc Agroforestry & Food Security
  • MSc Agroforestry & Food Security (by Distance Learning)
  • MSc Environmental Forestry
  • MSc SUTROFOR (Sustainable Tropical Forestry)

Module Organiser:

  • DXX-2016 Forestry Field Course
  • DDL-4202 Silviculture
  • DXX-4532 Forestry Study Tour
  • DXX-4538 AFFS Study Tour

Module Contributor:

  • DXX-1003 Forestry in the 21st Century
  • DXX-1006 Making Snowdonia
  • DXX-2004 Silviculture and Inventory
  • DXX-3701 Honours Project
  • DDL-4004 Agroforestry Systems and Practice
  • DDL-4207 Global Food Security
  • DDL-4545 Tropical Forestry Study Tour
  • DXX-4519 Location Specific Knowledge
  • DXX-4501 Erasmus Mundus Summer School
  • DXX-4101 MEnvSci / MFor Dissertation
  • DXX-4999 MSc Dissertation
  • DDL-4999 Distance Learning Dissertation

PhD Student Supervision

Sam Hollick, Optimising landscape shelterbelts to sustainably increase farm livestock productivity and build resilience to extreme events. KESS-PhD.

Ashley Hardaker, Beyond single purpose land use – rebalancing ecosystem service delivery in the Welsh uplands. KESS-PhD.

Genevieve Agaba, Designing context appropriate agroforestry options for low capacity households in Eastern Uganda and Central Kenya. ICRAF.

Alex Vierod, Ecological Tipping Points in Mangrove Ecosystems. NERC ENVISION

Rijan Tamraker, The influence of forest structure on carbon and water fluxes during climate anomalies. [Completed]

Ibrahim Abdullahi, The impact of climate change on the management and regeneration of parkland trees in the Savannah zones of Northern Nigeria. TET Fund. [Completed]

Dominic Wodehouse, Towards successful community mangrove management and rehabilitation. [Completed]

Yufeng He, Real-world solutions for improving estimates of land-atmosphere exchanges in heterogeneous landscapes. CSC China [Completed]

Michael Nworji, Physical and bioeconomic analysis of ecosystem services from a silvopasture system. TET Fund [Completed]

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

I am always happy to discuss PhD opportunities related to any of the topics mentioned above or that follow on from previous PhD student projects.

Publications

2021

  • PublishedEcosystem service and dis-service impacts of increasing tree cover on agricultural land by land-sparing and land-sharing in the Welsh uplands
    Hardaker, A., Pagella, T. & Rayment, M., 1 Apr 2021, In: Ecosystem Services. 48, 101253.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedOverriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions
    Evans, C. D., Peacock, M., Baird, A. J., Artz, R. R. E., Burden, A., Callaghan, N., Chapman, P. J., Cooper, H. M., Coyle, M., Craig, E., Cumming, A., Dixon, S., Gauci, V., Grayson, R. P., Helfter, C., Heppell, C. M., Holden, J., Jones, D. L., Kaduk, J., Levy, P., Matthews, R., McNamara, N. P., Misselbrook, T., Oakley, S., Page, S. E., Rayment, M., Ridley, L., Stanley, K. M., Williamson, J. L., Worrall, F. & Morrison, R., 27 May 2021, In: Nature. 593, p. 548-552
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

  • PublishedIntegrated assessment, valuation and mapping of ecosystem services and dis-services from upland land use in Wales
    Hardaker, A., Pagella, T. & Rayment, M., Jun 2020, In: Ecosystem Services. 43, 101098.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

  • PublishedMangrove area and propagule number planting targets produce sub-optimal rehabilitation and afforestation outcomes
    Wodehouse, D. C. J. & Rayment, M. B., 30 Jun 2019, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 222, p. 91-102
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

  • PublishedImplications of structural diversity for seasonal and annual carbon dioxide fluxes in two temperate deciduous forests
    Tamrakar, R., Rayment, M. B., Moyano, F., Mund, M. & Knohl, A., 15 Dec 2018, In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 263, p. 465-476
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2017

  • PublishedA simple parameterisation of windbreak effects on wind speed reduction and thermal benefits of sheep
    Rayment, M., He, Y. & Jones, P. J., 28 May 2017, In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 239, p. 96-107
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedReduced Impact Logging and Silvicultural Interventions in Ghana: the Case of Bobiri Forest Reserve
    Sanfilippo, M., Akampulira, E., Mohase, A., Okonkwo, H., Ouyoumb, P., Tumber, R., Walmsley, J. & Rayment, M., 2017, In: International Forestry Review. 19, 3, p. 369-380 12 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

  • PublishedA two-stage sampling strategy improves chamber-based estimates of greenhouse gas fluxes
    He, Y., Gibbons, J. & Rayment, M., 15 Nov 2016, In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 228-229, p. 52-59
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedFinal report on project SP1210: Lowland peatland systems in England and Wales – evaluating greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon balances
    Evans, C., Morrison, R., Burden, A., Williamson, J., Baird, A., Brown, E., Callahan, N., Chapman, P., Cumming, A., Dean, H., Dixon, S., Dooling, G., Evans, J., Gauci, V., Grayson, R., Haddaway, N., He, Y., Heppell, K., Holden, J., Hughes, S., Kaduk, J., Jones, D. L., Matthews, R., Menichino, N., Misselbrook, T., Page, S., Pan, G., Peacock, M., Rayment, M., Ridley, L., Robinson, I., Rylett, D., Scowen, M., Stanley, K. & Worrall, F., 2016, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology .
    Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
  • PublishedTurning literature into reality - tales from a Bangor University MSc Tropical Forestry summer school in Ghana
    Walmsley, J., Brockington, J., Agaba, G. & Rayment, M., 1 Apr 2016, In: Agriculture for Development. 2016, 27, p. 20-22 2 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

  • PublishedBiophysical modelling of intra-ring variations in tracheid features and wood density of Pinus pinaster trees exposed to seasonal droughts
    Wilkinson, S., Ogee, J., Domec, J. C., Rayment, M. & Wingate, L., 12 Mar 2015, In: Tree Physiology. 35, 3, p. 305-318
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2011

  • PublishedProvisioning Services.
    Edwards-Jones, G., Cross, P. A., Harris, I., Le Vay, L., Rayment, M., Scowen, M. & Waller, P., 1 Jan 2011, 2011 ed. UK National Ecosystem Assessment.
    Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Activities

2019

  • Overview of forestry distance learning at Bangor University

    Oral presentation made at a Research Colloquium event at the headquarters of the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

    18 Jul 2019

    Links:

    • https://www.csir-forig.org.gh/
    Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

Projects

  • Forest Fruit and Rural Nutrition (FFARN)

    01/03/2015 – 01/08/2019 (Finished)

    Description

    The Forest Fruits and Rural Nutrition program is a joint initiative between Mulawarman University and Bangor University, and aims to determine the role that under-utilised tropical forest fruits could play in alleviating rural childhood malnutrition.

    Links:

    • http://ffarn.bangor.ac.uk/index.html
  • Quantifying gas-phase losses of carbon from mangrove ecosystems

    09/01/2012 – 18/09/2015 (Finished)

  • GHG emissions from lowland peats

    01/09/2011 – 16/08/2016 (Finished)

Personal

Biography

I obtained my PhD in 1998 at Edinburgh University. My thesis addressed the carbon fluxes in a Boreal forest ecosystem, aiming to understand how the environmental controls of individual fluxes, such as photosynthesis and soil decomposition, function to control the carbon balance of the ecosystem as a whole. Fieldwork took place along a transect from the southern edge of the Boreal forest in Saskatchewan, Canada, to the northern edge in Manitoba. 

Following this, I moved to warmer climates to study the same sort of thing, this time in a montado/dehesa ecosystem the Portuguese Alentejo. Here, we identified the controlling effect of rainfall and water availability in decoupling carbon fluxes from the typical drivers of light and temperature. After that, another postdoc saw me looking at the net carbon balance of conifer forest managed on a rotational cycle in northern England, which demonstrated clearly that some clear-fell production systems result in huge losses of carbon from soils; losses which take decades to recover.

After that, I took a few years out of academia, raising a family and doing some school teaching and consultancy work, before joining Bangor University in 2008.

Qualifications 

1998                PhD Forestry, Edinburgh University, UK

1992                MSc Crop Production, Essex University, UK

1991                BSc Horticulture, Bath University, UK

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