Martin Bader

I am a forest ecologist interested in the interactions between trees, pathogens and insects and how these are affected by drought. Other core research areas include tree physiology, pest control and ecosystem responses to climate change.

I earned my PhD from the University of Basel, Switzerland, investigating the effects of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on forest trees. After a postdoctoral stint in Western Australia, I joined the New Zealand Forest Research Institute (Scion) in a dual role as forest ecologist and biostatistician before taking up a lectureship in Ecology at the Auckland University of Technology in 2017.

In 2021, I joined Linnaeus University where my research focuses on forest ecosystem services, especially the use of beneficial soil microbes and nanoparticles to boost the drought tolerance of forest trees.

Research

Forest Ecology, Tree Physiology, Tree-pathogen interactions, Tree-insect interactions

Lecture about my research

See Martin Bader's inauguration lecture as professor 31 January 2024 about his research at UR Play: Plants under pressure – global change effects on water and carbon relations of woody plants

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Doeweler, F., Fransson, J., Bader, M.K. (2024). Linking High-Resolution UAV-Based Remote Sensing Data to Long-Term Vegetation Sampling : A Novel Workflow to Study Slow Ecotone Dynamics. Remote Sensing. 16 (5).
Status: Published
Van sundert, K., Leuzinger, S., Bader, M.K., Chang, S.X., De kauwe, M.G., et al. (2023). When things get MESI : The Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative—A coordinated effort to synthesize terrestrial global change experiments. Global Change Biology. 29 (7). 1922-1938.
Status: Published
Gardner, A., Jiang, M., Ellsworth, D.S., Mackenzie, A.R., Pritchard, J., et al. (2023). Optimal stomatal theory predicts CO₂ responses of stomatal conductance in both gymnosperm and angiosperm trees. New Phytologist. 237 (4). 1229-1241.
Status: Published
Pugh, A.R., Romo, C.M., Clare, G.K., Meurisse, N., Bader, M.K., et al. (2023). Temperature Effects on the Survival and Development of Two Pest Bark Beetles Hylurgus ligniperda F. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and Hylastes ater Paykull (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Environmental Entomology. 52 (1). 56-66.
Status: Published
Svensson, C., Bader, M.K., Löf, M., Johansson, U., Bergh, J. (2023). Fertilisation and irrigation have no effects on growth of oak (Quercus robur, Q. petraea) stands on abandoned farmland in southwest Sweden. Forest Ecology and Management. 529.
Status: Published
Zarafshar, M., Rousta, M.J., Matinizadeh, M., Talebi, K.S., Bordbar, S.K., et al. (2023). Scattered wild pistachio trees profoundly modify soil quality in semi-arid woodlands. Catena (Cremlingen. Print). 224.
Status: Published
Fagerberg, N., Seifert, S., Seifert, T., Lohmander, P., Alissandrakis, A., et al. (2023). Prediction of knot size in uneven-sized Norway spruce stands in Sweden. Forest Ecology and Management. 544.
Status: Published
Svensson, C., Bader, M.K., Forsmark, B., Nilsson, U., Lundmark, T., et al. (2023). Early and repeated nutrient additions support far greater stemwood production in Norway spruce than traditional late-rotation fertilisation. Forest Ecology and Management. 549.
Status: Published
Ravi, S., Bader, M.K., Young, T., Duxbury, M., Clearwater, M., et al. (2022). Are the well-fed less thirsty? : Effects of drought and salinity on New Zealand mangroves. Journal of Plant Ecology. 15 (1). 85-99.
Status: Published
Azizi, S., Tabari, M., Abad, A.R.F.N., Ammer, C., Guidi, L., et al. (2022). Soil Inoculation With Beneficial Microbes Buffers Negative Drought Effects on Biomass, Nutrients, and Water Relations of Common Myrtle. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13.
Status: Published
Karimi, A., Tabari, M., Javanmard, Z., Bader, M.K. (2022). Drought Effects on Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical Traits in Persian Oak and Black Poplar Seedlings. Forests. 13 (3).
Status: Published
Sendek, A., Baity-Jesi, M., Altermatt, F., Bader, M.K., Liebhold, A.M., et al. (2022). Fewer non-native insects in freshwater than in terrestrial habitats across continents. Diversity & distributions : A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity. 28 (11). 2303-2315.
Status: Published
Bader, M.K., Scherrer, D., Zweifel, R., Körner, C. (2022). Less pronounced drought responses in ring-porous than in diffuse-porous temperate tree species. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 327.
Status: Published
Adusei-Fosu, K., Rolando, C.A., Richardson, B., Van Leeuwen, R., Gaskin, R., et al. (2021). Evaluating the efficacy of potential fungicide-adjuvant combinations for control of myrtle rust in New Zealand. Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection. 128. 1501-1515.
Status: Published
Doweler, F., Case, B.S., Buckley, H.L., Bader, M.K. (2021). High light-induced photoinhibition is not limiting seedling establishment at abrupt treeline ecotones in New Zealand. Tree Physiology. 41 (11). 2034-2045.
Status: Published
Azizi, S., Kouchaksaraei, M.T., Hadian, J., Abad, A.R.F.N., Sanavi, S.A.M.M., et al. (2021). Dual inoculations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria boost drought resistance and essential oil yield of common myrtle. Forest Ecology and Management. 497.
Status: Published