Dr. Oliver L. Pescott

My research currently focuses on the design of a new national plant monitoring scheme that will fill the gap between professional wider countryside surveys and the ‘Atlas’-style information on plant distributions collected by volunteer recorders.

I am also interested in the use of novel analytical methods that allow disparate types of information on plant abundances and distributions at different scales to be combined into a predictive framework for predicting plant abundances across unsurveyed sites.

I am currently joint-Recording Secretary of the British Bryological Society (BBS) recording scheme. In this role I promote the use of BBS records for research and conservation. I have recently contributed a chapter on environmental constraints on bryophyte distributions to the forthcoming Atlas of British and Irish Bryophytes.

I am particularly interested in urban plant communities: I am assembling a set of systematic data on urban plant frequencies in Sheffield for my own research. Additionally I collected over 6000 urban and peri-urban plant records whilst PDRA on the Urban BESS project. Publications are currently being prepared on this. I also assist with plant recording on several agri-environmental research grants held within CEH.

Full publications lists are available on Google Scholar and NERC NORA. I am also on ResearchGate and a record of my peer reviewing activities is on Publons.