Philip Martin

Email: phil.martin.research@gmail.com

Research interests
o Impact of human disturbance on ecosystem service provision & biodiversity in
forests.
o Effectiveness of conservation management for protecting and restoring
biodiversity and ecosystem services.
o Spatial prioritisation of conservation and restoration.

Employment & Education

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology/Bournemouth University
Short-term post-doctoral research position

Wallingford
February 2016 April 2016

o Short project aiming to predict the impact of invasive species on ecosystem services
using species traits.
Bournemouth University

Bournemouth

Post-doctoral researcher

June 2014 October 2015

o Research of forest resilience & tipping points using time-series, meta-analysis,

individual & process-based models.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology/Bournemouth University
PhD in Ecology

Wallingford
October 2010 May 2014

o Research of impacts of different types of forest degradation on ecosystem services

and biodiversity, leading to 3 peer-reviewed publications.
o Research used systematic review, meta-analysis and other forms of synthesis to
generalise about impacts of forest degradation.
Birdlife International
Species mapping assistant

Cambridge
February 2010 August 2010

o Produced global range maps of bird species using ArcGIS for IUCN Red List from
literature and database records.
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Research assistant

Cambridge
November 2009 April 2010

o Aided production of indicators of rural dependence upon ecosystem services.

British Antarctic Survey

Cambridge

Research assistant

January 2008 October 2009

o Produced databases based on historical cruise data & used GIS tools to produce
historical species distribution maps.
University of East Anglia

Norwich

MSc Applied Ecology and Conservation (Distinction)

Manchester Metropolitan University

Sept 2006 Sept 2007

Manchester

BSc Biology (First class Honours)

September 2001 May 2005

Technical and personal skills

o Communication skills: Excellent presentation skills. Experienced at remote working for
collaboration: Skype, Google hangouts, Google Docs, Dropbox, Github. I am also
experienced in using html to design websites and have run my own blog on conservation
and ecology for 5 years.
o Analytical skills: 5 years experience using R for advanced statistics, use of GitHub for
version control and online collaboration, use of NetLogo for individual based models, 4
years experience using ArcGIS, database production using Access & Oracle.
o Specific tools expertise: R packages for statistical analysis (lme4, nlme, MuMIn),
spatial analysis and organisation (raster, ape, rgdal), data organisation (reshape, dplyr,
taxsize, Taxonstand).

Publications
o Martin, P. A., Evans, P., Cantarello, E., & Newton, A. C. (2016) Die-back in a
temperate forest causes loss of tree cover but not regime shift. In preparation
o Evans, P., Cantarello, E., Martin, P.A, & Newton, A.C. (2016) Thresholds of
ecosystem service provision in a temperate forest undergoing collapse. In
preparation
o Cantarello, E. Martin, P.A, Evans, P., & Newton, A.C. (2016) Landscape scale
resilience of temperate forest ecosystem services to novel disturbances. In
preparation
o Sayer, C., Bullock, J. M. & Martin, P. A. (2016) Secondary tropical forests retain
avian functional diversity, but not species richness. In review Biodiversity and
Conservation
o Martin, P. A., Jung, M., Brearley, F. Q., Ribbons, R. R., Lines, E. R., & Jacob, A. L.,
(2016) Climate and stand age interact to determine biomass carbon density in
mature forests. PeerJ 4:e1595 doi: 10.7717/peerj.1595
o Martin, P. A., Evans, P., Cantarello, E., & Newton, A. C. (2015) Stand dieback and
collapse in a temperate forest and its impact on forest structure and biodiversity.
Forest Ecology and Management, 358, 130-138 doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.08.033
o Martin, P. A., Newton, A. C., Pfeifer, M., Khoo, M.S. & Bullock, J. M. (2015) Impacts
of tropical selective logging on carbon storage and tree species richness: a metaanalysis. Forest Ecology & Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.07.010
o Spake, R., Martin, P.A., Ezard, T., Newton, A.C., & Doncaster, C.P. (2015) A metaanalysis of functional group responses to forest recovery outside of the tropics.
Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12548
o Martin, P. A., Newton, A. C., & Bullock, J. M. (2013). Carbon pools recover more
quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests. Proceedings of the Royal
Society
B:
Biological
Sciences, 280(1773),
DOI:10.1098/rspb.2013.2236

Recommended by F1000

Prizes & Grants

NERC Grant with Adrian Newton - 5000
Bournemouth
Funding for workshop Understanding resilience, thresholds and tipping points 2015
Winner of best talk
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology annual conference
Winner of best poster
Student Conference on Conservation Science

Wallingford
2013
Cambridge
2013

NERC doctoral studentship - 49000

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Wallingford
2010

Research Dissemination
I am a skilled scientific communicator and have presented my work at numerous
international conferences: INTECOL 2013, British Ecological Society annual meetings 20112016, Society for Conservation Biology European congress 2012, Student Conference on
Conservation Science (Cambridge, 2013).
I also write an ecology and conservation blog (Ecology for a crowded planet) with a weekly
readership of >500 people, and have written articles for non-specialist audiences for a
number of websites.

Teaching experience
o
o

Designed and taught classes on ecosystem services and restoration at the University of
Bournemouth and the University of East Anglia
Experience teaching advanced statistics to MSc students at the University of East Anglia

Professional courses
o

May 2014 - Introduction to individual based models Barcelona

September 2013 Ecological traits Coimbra University

March 2013 - Mixed modelling in R Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

March 2013 ggplot2 course - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

November 2012 vegan R package training

October 2012 Bayesian modelling in R - Glasgow

March 2011 Generalised Linear Modelling in R Imperial College

June 2009 - Modelling patterns of species occupancy St Andrews University

Nov 2008 - Communicating science to the public NERC, Swindon

Administrative experience
o

I was student representative at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for 18 months.
During this time I organised seminars and sat on student committees.

I have chaired and organised sessions at INTECOL 2013 and internal conferences.

Aided organisation of British Ecological Society Forest Special Interest group.

Member of the British Ecological Society grant review college.

Other skills
o Fluent Spanish speaker, good written Spanish (Level B2)

References
Up to 3 references available on request