Professor of Ecology and Catchment Management

Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (Diversity and Inclusion)

Office: G21 Thoday Building

Telephone: +44 (0)1248 388076

email: m.mcdonald@bangor.ac.uk

Practitioner of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (PIEMA)

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (FRGS)

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Level 5 ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) Certificate in Management and Leadership

I have broad research expertise in soil conservation and fertility; impacts of anthropogenic and natural disturbance on forest ecosystems; restoration forestry; buffer-zone management; forest nutrient and carbon cycling; tropical dry forest regeneration; agroforestry systems, water regulating ecosystem services and forest restoration through fallow management; Forest restoration and remediation of degraded and post-industrial. I am happy to supervise PhD students in these areas

Subject to funding, I would be happy to supervise PhD studies in the following general areas:

Forest ecosystem service provisioning in future drying climates

In-situ conservation of wild forest food for health and livelihoods

Impacts of anthropogenic and natural disturbance on forest ecosystems

Tropical dry forest regeneration

Water regulating ecosystem services and forest restoration

Forest restoration and remediation of degraded and post-industrial lands

2022

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2021

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2019

• CyhoeddwydGreening the Green City: Selection of fruit tree species in Kampala in public and private space.
  Arponen, J., Mollee, E. & McDonald, M., 2019.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Murlen
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• CyhoeddwydLinking urban agroforestry and child nutrition: A case study from Kampala, Uganda. Keynote
  Mollee, E., McDonald, M. & Kehlenbeck, K., 2019.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur

2018

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• CyhoeddwydCharacterizing the Intensity and Dynamics of Land-Use Change in the Mara River Basin, East Africa
  Mwangi, H., Lariu, P., Julich, S., Patil, S., McDonald, M. & Feger, K-H., 2018, Yn: Forests. 9, 1, 17 t., 8.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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2017

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2016

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2015

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2014

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2013

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2012

• CyhoeddwydPerennial Biomass Production in Arid Mangrove Systems on the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia
  Abohassan, R., Okia, C., Agea, J. & McDonald, M., 2012, Yn: Environmental Research. 6, 1, t. 22-31
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2011

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2008

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2007

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2005

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2004

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2003

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2002

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2001

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• CyhoeddwydContour hedgerows of Calliandra calothyrsus Meissn. for soil and water conservation in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica
  McDonald, M., Stevens, P. A. & Healey, J., 2001, Sustaining the Global Farm – Selected Papers from the 10th International Soil Conservation Organization Meeting. Stott, D. E., Mohtar, R. H. & Steinhardt, G. C. (gol.). West Lafayette, Indiana, USA: International Soil Conservation Organization , t. 395-402
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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2000

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1999

• CyhoeddwydMaintenance of soil fertility on steeplands in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica: the role of contour hedgerows
  McDonald, M., Stevens, P. A., Healey, J. & Devi Prasad, P. V., 1999, Global Change in the Mountains. Price, M. F. (gol.). CRC Press, t. 193-196
  Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod

1997

• CyhoeddwydMaintenance of soil fertility on steeplands in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica: the role of contour hedgerows
  McDonald, M., Stevens, P. A., Healey, J. & Devi Prasad, P. V., 1997, Yn: Agroforestry Forum. 8, 4, t. 21-25
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl

1992

• CyhoeddwydThe effects of forest clearance on soil conservation: preliminary findings from the Yallahs Valley, Jamaican Blue Mountains
  McDonald, M., Healey, J. & Devi Prasad, P. V., 1992, Yn: Caribbean Geography. 3, t. 253-260
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2019

• Linking urban agroforestry and child nutrition: A case study from Kampala, Uganda

  2019

  Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)

2016

• Alternative food sources when living in the city: coping with rising food prices in Kampala

  2016

  Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)

• Establishing network of research excellence for mine reclamation in SE Asia - extra funding

  01/04/2018 – 20/07/2018 (Wedi gorffen)

• Ethnobotanical knowledge and economic potentials of indigenous plants (PhD studentship)

  01/12/2016 – 30/08/2020 (Wedi gorffen)

• Establishing network of research excellence for mine reclamation in SE Asia

  01/03/2015 – 17/08/2018 (Wedi gorffen)

• Tree impacts on soil nutrient and carbon cycles

  31/01/2014 – 31/01/2017 (Wedi gorffen)

• Transformation of Degraded Lands to Productive Landscapes

  01/11/2013 – 31/08/2014 (Wedi gorffen)

• Conservation of Mangifera Sylvatica

  30/11/2012 – 08/02/2017 (Wedi gorffen)

• Forest conservation by eminent domain

  01/11/2012 – 22/08/2016 (Wedi gorffen)

• Innovative use of wild forest fruit species

  01/09/2012 – 14/12/2016 (Wedi gorffen)

• The Role of Pioneer Species in Recovering Tropical Forests

  01/04/2012 – 14/02/2017 (Wedi gorffen)

• Payments for ecosystem services in tropical forests

  01/10/2011 – 07/09/2015 (Wedi gorffen)

• GIFT

  01/07/2011 – 03/09/2015 (Wedi gorffen)

• Environmental Change University Partnership

  01/02/2011 – 30/09/2013 (Wedi gorffen)

• Implementation Of The Environment Change

  01/10/2007 – 01/10/2012 (Wedi gorffen)

• Esf Phd 05/06 With Wild Resources Ltd

  01/12/2005 – 01/07/2008 (Wedi gorffen)

Recent grant awards and projects:

EU Erasmus Mundus Masters Course Sustainable Tropical Forestry (SUTROFOR). Co-PI €3,471,000, 2017-2021

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account – National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF). Community Energy Knowledge Exchange Visits: Expanding Knowledge Amongst Civil Society, Local Authorities and Secondary Schools. Co-I £20,711 2018

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account. Who owns energy? A community renewables educative package for secondary schools in Wales. £10k PI 2017

Global Innovation Initiative. Establishing a network of research excellence for mine reclamation in southeast Asia. £149,980 PI 2015 – 2018

Newton Institutional Linkages Programme. Forest fruit and rural nutrition in Indonesia. £89k Co-PI 2015 - 2018

British Council Indonesia. Transformation of degraded lands to productive landscapes in Indonesia. £10k PI 2014-2015

European Union. Tree impacts on soil nutrient and carbon cycles. £102k PI  2014-2017

European Union. Conservation of Mangifera sylvatica: a threatened tree species in Bangladesh. £102k PI 2012-2017

European Union. The use of indigenous fruit trees for health and livelihoods in an urbanising world (Uganda). £98k 2012-2015

Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol PhD studentship £58,000 PI 2012-2016

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Programme “Forests and Nature for Society (FONASO)”. €6,701,910, Co-PI, 2010-2020

I contribute to DNS1003 Ecology and Evolution, DXX2011 Catchment Processes, DXX2002 Water, Air & Soil Pollution, DXX3212/DXX3016 Forest ecosystems & Services and DXX3305 Field trip to Tenerife

Current and recent PhD students (2016-):

Cooper, M. Natural Flood Management in Wales

Ullah, K. Business adaptation strategies to meet the needs of the Circular Economy

Buenavista, D. P.  Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Economic Potentials of Indigenous Plants Utilized by the Local Communities of Mindanao, Philippines

Iveson, K. Perceptions of Justice and Equity in Energy Infrastructure: Willingness to Pay for High Voltage Overhead Transmission Lines and Loss of Natural Capital

Smith, E.  Local knowledge of land use change in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Ismaiel, I. A. Integrated water resources management in Kurdistan

Wodehouse, D. Predicting barriers to sustainable community mangrove management

Mollee, E. M. The innovative use of indigenous fruit trees for health and livelihoods in an urbanising world

Ribbons, R. R. Tree species and Soils: Pure and mixed tree species effects on soil C sequestration and processes

Akhter, S. Conservation of Mangifera sylvatica: a wild forest fruit species for health and livelihoods

Mwangi, H. M. Assessing the effect of forest-related land use change and climate change  on Hydrological Ecosystem Services (HES): Mara River Basin case study

Haf, S. The winds of change? A comparative study of community energy developments in Scotland and Wales

B.Sc. Hons. (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) Newcastle University

Ph.D. (Forestry) Edinburgh University.  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) CASE Studentship.

Research Associate, University of British Columbia, Canada

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Fellowship (NSERC)

Visiting scholar, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE), Costa Rica

Visiting Lecturer and Research Fellow, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Radio Producer, BBC Scotland