Nadia Barsoum, BSc, PhD

Programme Leader, Environmental and Human Sciences Division

Email: nadia.barsoum@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1420 22255
Tel direct: +44 (0)1420 526219
Fax: +44 (0)1420 23563

Address:
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU10 4LH
UK

Nadia joined Forest Research in June 2004. She studied for an Ecology BSc. degree at King’s College London (1990-93). This was followed by a period of work as an Environmental Consultant for King’s Environmental Services in London. Between 1994-1998 Nadia worked towards her PhD degree in Floodplain Woodland Ecology at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Nadia continued to pursue her research interests in Riparian Ecology through Post-Doctoral Research (1999-2004) at the Centre d’Ecologie de Systèmes Aquatiques Continentaux (CESAC-CNRS), Toulouse, France and the Universities of Umeå and Mid-Sweden, Sweden. She also worked over this period on an independent project for the French Ministry of Environment, producing for them a critical appraisal of 10+ years of French Ministry of Environment-funded Biodiversity research.

Nadia now works as an ecologist in the Environmental and Human Sciences Division of Forest Research. She has responsibilities as a Forest Environmental Scientist within her Division to develop research in the general area of her expertise and as Leader of the UK Intensive Long-term Forest Monitoring Programme (part of the EU-funded European Level II Network).

Current role

Programme Leader, Environmental and Human Sciences Division

Leader of EU-funded Intensive Long-term Forest Monitoring Programme within the UK
Responsibilities include:

Co-ordinating plot maintenance activities and the collection and reporting of data collected from plots according to EU and nationally set standard protocols
Project budget management and promotion
Evaluating Level II plot data sets and the potential for novel analysis and reporting of results
Developing innovative national and/or international research programmes linked to the long-term monitoring programme
Providing UK representation at relevant EU Task force and Expert Panel meetings.

Forest Environmental Scientist
Responsibilities include developing and contributing to joint research projects in general area of expertise (floodplain woodland ecology, population genetics, ecology of Salix, Populus and other woody clonal plants) within and beyond Forest Research.

Current programmes

Forest Focus review
Contributor

Integrated forest monitoring
Project leader

Intensive long term monitoring of forest ecosystems
Programme Leader

Links between tree health and ectomycorrhizal fungal communities
PhD supervisor

Affiliations and achievements

Member of British Ecological Society
Member of American Institute of Biological Sciences
Member of Society for Wetland Scientists
Member of COST E43 (Biodiversity Working Group) - WG3 - Harmonisation of National Forest inventories

Research areas

Biodiversity and biodiversity indicators
Floodplain woodland /wetland ecology
Ecology of the Salicaceae (environmental factors influencing regeneration, sex ratios, clonal growth, genotypic diversity)
Air pollution /climate change and forest health
Genotypic and genetic structure of plant populations
Ectomycorrhizal communities in British forests

Main recent publications

Dufour, S., Barsoum, N., Muller, E. and Piégay, H. (2007). Effects of channel confinement on pioneer woody vegetation structure, composition and diversity along the River Drôme (SE France). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32, 1244-56.

Vangelova, E., Barsoum, N., Benham, S., Broadmeadow, N., Moffat, M., Nisbet, T. and Pitman, R. (2007). Ten Years of Intensive Forest Monitoring. Forestry Commission Information Note 88. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.

Barsoum, N., Anderson, R., Broadmeadow, S., Bishop, H and Nisbet, T. (2005). Eco-Hydrological Guidelines for Wet Woodlands - Phase 1 ^(PDF-2374K). English Nature Research Report 619 . English Nature, Peterborough.

Barsoum, N., Muller, E. and Skot, L. (2004). Variations in levels of clonality among Populus nigra L. stands of different ages. Evolutionary Ecology. 18: 601-624.

Multiple authors and editors. (2004). The Flooded Forest: Guidance on Restoring Floodplain Woodlands for Policy Makers and River Managers in Europe. ^(PDF-4.6Mb). pp.96.

Barsoum, N. (2002). Relative contributions of sexual and asexual regeneration strategies in Populus nigra and Salix alba during the first years of establishment on a braided gravel bed river. Evolutionary Ecology 15, 255-279.

Guilloy-Froget, H., Muller, E., Barsoum, N., Hughes, F.M.R. (2002). Dispersal, Germination and Survival of Populus nigra L. (Saliacaceae) in Changing Hydrologic Conditions. WETLANDS 22 (3), 478-488.

Muller, E., Guilloy, H., Barsoum, N., Brocheton, L. (2002). Populus nigra L. en vallée de Garonne: legs du passé et constraintes du présent. C.R. Acad. Sciences 325, 1129-1141.

Barsoum, N. (2001). Regeneration: requirements and promotion measures. ^(PDF-787k). In EUFORGEN Technical Bulletin: In Situ Conservation of Populus nigra. (editors Lefèvre, F., Barsoum, N., Heinze, B., Kajba, D., Rotach, P., de Vries, S.M.G and Turok, J.) International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy. Pp. 16-24.

Hughes, F.M.R., Adams, W.M., Barsoum, N., Décamps, H., Foussadier, R., Girel, J., Guilloy, H., Hayes, A., Johansson, M., Lambs, L., Muller, E., Nilsson, C., Pautou, G., Peiry, J-L., Perrow, M., Richards, K.S.R., Vautier, F., Winfield, M. (2001). Managing flows for the restoration of floodplain woodland: Local and reach scale factors in different European river types. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management 17, 325-345.

Hughes, F.M.R., Barsoum, N., Richards, K., Hayes, A., Winfield, M. (2000). The response of male and female black poplar (Populus nigra var betulifolia) to different water table depths and sediment types: Implications for flow management and river corridor biodiversity. Hydrological Processes 14, 3075-3098.

Barsoum, N. (2000). The balance of black poplar (Populus nigra) regeneration strategies as a function of hydrology on floodplains. In 'Populus nigra' Network: Report of the Sixth Meeting, 6-8 February, 2000, Isle sur La Sorgue, France (compilers: Borelli, S., de Vries, S., Lefèvre, F., and Turok, J.) pp. 46-50, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy.

Barsoum, N. and Hughes, F.M.R. (1998). Regeneration response of Black poplar to changing river levels. In Hydrology in a Changing Environment. Vol. 1. (eds H. Wheater & C. Kirby), pp.397-412, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Hughes, F.M.R., Harris, T., Richards, K., Pautou, G., Barsoum, N., El-Hames, A., Girel, J., Peiry, J.-L., Foussadier, R. (1997). Woody riparian species response to different moisture conditions: Laboratory experiments on Alnus incana. J. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 6, 247-256.

Pautou, G., Girel, J., Peiry, J.-L., Hughes, F.M.R., Richards, K., Foussadier, R., Barsoum, N., Garguet-Duport, B., Harris, T. (1996). Changes in vegetation in fluvial hydrosystems using as examples the upper Rhône and the Isère in Grésivaudan. Rev. Ecol. Alp. Grenoble, tome III, 41-66.

Bark. A., Barsoum, N., Moore, P., Radcliffe, S., Turner, B. (1994). Software Review : Tablefit version 0.0 for Identification of Vegetation Types. Journal of Ecology, 82(4) pp. 987-8.

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