Professional summary
Zeke is an ecological data scientist and plant ecologist whose primary interest is in the creation of decision support tools and models which aid in the improvement of ecological restoration and habitat management outcomes. More specifically, this involves the development of ecological niche models and community assembly models, which aim to predict plant community composition trajectories.
He is also passionate about conservation horticulture, working with Kew Wakehurst to develop a propagation protocol for the controlled pollination of Populus nigra subsp. betulifolia, is a trained seed collector for the Millennium Seed Bank, and works to conserve rare, scarce, and threatened vascular plant species in VC66 at Durham University Botanic Gardens.
Web tools and apps
Marshall, Z., Smart, S.M., Harrower, C., Marrs, R., 2024. RMAVIS v1.0: a Shiny application for the analysis of vegetation survey data and assignment to GB NVC communities. Journal of Open Source Software 9, 6682. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06682
Brockway, P.E., Heun, M.K., Marshall, Z., Aramendia, E., Steenwyk, P., Relph, T., Widjanarko, M., Kim, J. (James), Sainju, A., Irtube, J., 2024. A country-level primary-final-useful (CL-PFU) energy and exergy database: overview of its construction and 1971–2020 world-level efficiency results. Environ. Res.: Energy 1, 025005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ad4e39
Aramendia, E., Brockway, P.E., Taylor, P.G., Norman, J.B., Heun, M.K., Marshall, Z., 2024. Estimation of useful-stage energy returns on investment for fossil fuels and implications for renewable energy systems. Nat Energy 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01518-6
Heun, M.K., Marshall, Z., Aramendia, E., 2024. CLPFUDatabase: A suite of R packages for energy conversion chain analysis. Journal of Open Source Software 9, 6057. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06057
Heun, M.K., Marshall, Z., Aramendia, E., Brockway, P.E., 2020. The Energy and Exergy of Light with Application to Societal Exergy Analysis. Energies 13, 5489. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13205489
Marshall, Z., Brockway, P.E., 2020. A Net Energy Analysis of the Global Agriculture, Aquaculture, Fishing and Forestry System. Biophys Econ Sust 5, 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41247-020-00074-3