R. Scott Anderson
Professor — Environmental & Quaternary Sciences
M.S. 1979 University of Maine, Paleoecology
B.A. 1974 University of Colorado, Environmental Biology
Research interests
- Disturbance ecology, primarily the effect of fire and insect infestation on former plant communities
- Paleoecology and climate history of plant communities
- Global change issues, especially as they relate to human activities in forested ecosystems
Research projects
- Biogeography and disturbance history of mixed conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, California
- Vegetation, climate and disturbance histories of the Southern Rockies and Colorado Plateau, southern and coastal California, southeast Alaska, the Southwestern Deserts, Argentina, and Spain
- Inter-annual variation in climate and vegetation as recorded in annually laminated sediments in California and Colorado
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