Russell Anderson

 

Programme Leader, Ecology Division

Email: russell.anderson@ forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)131 445 2176
Tel direct: +44 (0)131 445 6971
Fax: +44 (0)131 445 7335

Address:
Forest Research
Northern Research Station
Roslin
Midlothian EH25 9SY
UK

Russell joined Forest Research in 1978, where he has specialised in soils, hydrology, peatlands and ecology. He studied Forest Science at Edinburgh in 2000-03.

Current role

Project Leader, Ecology Division

Current programmes

• Management and restoration of priority open habitats
  Programme Leader for Open ground habitats project and Peatlands project.

Affiliations and achievements

• Member of British Ecological Society
• Member of the Botanical Society of the British Isles
• Forestry Commission contact for corporate membership of the International Peat Society

Research areas

• Bog woodland habitats
• Controlling tree colonisation on restored open habitats
• Grazing as a means of maintaining open habitats
• Heathland restoration methods
• Improving the habitat value of plantation restocks
• Restoration of bogs

Main recent publications

Barsoum, N., Anderson, R., Broadmeadow, S., Bishop, H. and Nisbet, T. (2005). Eco-hydrological guidelines for wet woodland - Phase 1. English Nature Research Report No. 619. English Nature, Peterborough.

Anderson, A.R. (2003). Provision and management of open ground in upland forests for biodiversity. A review with special reference to heathlands. MSc thesis. Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh.

Anderson, A.R. and Harding, K.I.M. (2002). The age structure of Scots pine bog woodlands. Scottish Forestry 56(3): 135-143.

Anderson A.R. (2001). Deforesting and Restoring Peat Bogs: a Review. Forestry Commission Technical Paper No 32. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.

Anderson, A.R., Ray, D. and Pyatt, D.G. (2000). Physical and hydrological impacts of blanket bog afforestation at Bad a’ Cheo, Caithness: the first five years. Forestry 73(5): 467-478.

Patterson, G.S., and Anderson, A.R. (2000). Forests and peatland habitats. Guideline Note No.1. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.

Shotbolt, L., Anderson, A.R. and Townend, J. (1998). Changes to blanket bog adjoining forest plots at Bad a’ Cheo, Rumster Forest, Caithness. Forestry 71: 311-324.