R. Scott Anderson

Dr. R. Scott Anderson
Professor
School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability
Northern Arizona University
Building 19, Room 100
Box 5694
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
United States of America


Phone: +1 928 523 9333
Fax: +1 928 523 7423
E-mail: scott.anderson(at)nau.edu
URL Institution: www.nau.edu/envsci/
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of R. Scott Anderson (up to ten) :
1. Anderson, RS, Stillick, RD. 2013. 800 years of vegetation change, fire and human settlement in the Sierra Nevada, California. The Holocene DOI: 10.1177/0959683612471985.

2. Street, JH, Anderson, RS, Rosenbauer, RJ, Paytan, A. 2013. n-Alkane evidence for the onset of wetter conditions in the Sierra Nevada at the mid-late Holocene transition, ~3,000 YR BP. Quaternary Research 79,14-23.

3. Anderson, RS, Jiménez-Moreno, G, Carrión, JS, Pérez-Martinez, C. 2011. Postglacial history of alpine vegetation, fire and climate from Laguna de Río Seco, Sierra Nevada, southern Spain. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 1615-1629.

4. Fawcett, PJ, Werne, JP, Anderson, RS, Heikoop, JM, Brown, ET, Berke, MA, Smith, S, Goff, F, Hurley, L, Cisneros-Dozal, LM, Schouten, S, Sinninghe Damsté, JS, Huang, Y, Toney, J, Fessenden, J, WoldeGabriel, G, Atudorei, V, Geissman, JW, Allen, CD. 2011. Extended Megadroughts in the Southwestern United States during Pleistocene Interglacials. Nature 470, 518-521. doi:10.1038/nature09839.

5. Jiménez-Moreno, G, Anderson, RS, Atudorei, V, Toney, JL. 2011. A high-resolution record of climate, vegetation and fire in the mixed conifer forest of northern Colorado (USA). Geological Society of America Bulletin 123, 240-254.


Expertise of R. Scott Anderson:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic AtmosphereGlobal Warming
Topic HydrosphereFresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes
Topic BiosphereBiosphere
Plants
Biodiversity
Topic EcosystemsTerrestrial Ecosystems
Time FramePast
Past: Historical / Archeological
Recent / Today
Time ScaleMillenial
MethodsData Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis

Specialties of R. Scott Anderson:
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

Last update: 3/9/16
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