Project Officer

Location: Cambridge (DAV 210)
Tel No: +44 (0)1223 363271 (ext. 2079)
Email: Peter.stroh@anglia.ac.uk

Profile:
I have worked for the Scottish Wildlife Trust, English Nature/Natural England and at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Monks Wood). The main bulk of work involved field surveying, site management and interpretation of field data. I have run many botanical field trips in a variety of habitats, and have designed and tested a variety of monitoring protocols for use by professionals and skilled volunteers. Currently studying (part-time) for a PhD in "Passive wetland creation at a landscape scale" at Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge.

Research Interests:
I am a botanist with an interest in phytosociological studies, eco-hydrology and seed dispersal. My current work is based at Anglia Ruskin University and involves designing and implementing long-term monitoring protocols within two landscape-scale wetland restoration sites in Cambridgeshire, UK. In parallel with this work, I am studying for a PhD (part time), investigating the contribution of the soil seed bank, extensive grazing, seed dispersal mechanisms and soil porosity to landscape-scale wetland restoration.

Consultancy and other Professional Activity:

• Botanical Secretary for Wicken Fen Local Management Committee.
• Member of the Great Fen Technical Advisory Committee.
• Member of the Botanical Society of the British Isles.

Publications:
Stroh, P.A. & Hughes, F.M.R (2010). Practical approaches to wetland monitoring; Guidelines for landscape-scale, long-term projects. Unpublished report.

Stroh, Peter A., Hughes, Francine M.R., Sparks, Tim H. and Mountford, J.O (2010). The influence of time on the soil seed bank and vegetation across a landscape-scale wetland restoration project. Restoration Ecology, in press.

Smith, G., Stroh, P.A., Hughes, F. and McWilliams, N., (2010), Scene components aggregation as a means of characterising landscape objects with very high spatial resolution data. In: The proceedings of the GEOBIA2010 Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 29 June - 2 July 2010.

Hughes, F.M.R, Stroh, P.A., Mountford, J.O., Warrington, S., Gerrard, C., Jose, P., & W.M. Adams. Monitoring large-scale wetland restoration projects: Is there an end in sight? Pages 170-179 in P. Carey, editor. Landscape Ecology and Conservation. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (UK Chapter), Cambridge, UK, September 8-11th 2008.

Smith, G., Hughes, F., Stroh, P.A., and McWilliams, N. (2009) The aggregation of scene components within landscape features as a way of automating the analysis of very high spatial resolution data. In: Object based landscape analysis (OBLA), A Two-day meeting of the RSPSoc Land Cover/Land Use SIG, Abstracts Booklet, Nottingham, 7th - 8th April, 2009.

Stroh, P.A. (2007). The current distribution of Green-winged Orchid Orchis morio L. in Huntingdonshire (vc31), the Soke of Peterborough (vc32) and old Cambridgeshire (vc29). Nature in Cambridgeshire 49: pp 3-10.