Richard Lansdown

I worked as an ornithologist from 1979 to 1990 in the UK, Ireland, France, Malaysia and Thailand. In 1991 I obtained an MSc in EIA at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Since 1994, I have been self-employed, I am joint county bryophyte recorder for Gloucestershire for the British Bryological Society; general aquatics referee and taxon-specific referee for Callitriche, Sparganium, Zannichellia and Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium for the Botanical Society of the British Isles and irecord reviewer for the same taxa. I serve on the IUCN Freshwater Conservation Committee and chair both the IUCN SSC Freshwater Plant Specialist Group and the Natural England Taxon Advisory Group for Aquatic Plants.

I mainly undertake four types of work:

• Taxon-specific work - including studies of Alisma gramineum, Damasonium alisma, Luronium natans, Pilularia globulifera, Ranunculus tripartitus, Ranunculus tripartitus and Tolypella intricata.
• Taxonomic and conservation work on the genus Callitriche.
• Use of standardised survey techniques such as RHS, RCS, LEAFPACS, Macrophyte Survey, MTR, Phase I and Phase II habitat survey and NVC, as well as Site Condition Monitoring of standing and flowing waters and non-standardised surveys of fungi and bryophytes.
• Ecological surveys for Environmental Impact Assessment. I have published more than 80 scientific articles and contributions to books and have worked in more than fifty countries. 

• MSc EIA in Asia, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 1990

• Chair of the IUCN SSC Freshwater Plant Specialist Group
• Chair of the Natural England Aquatic Plant Taxon Group
• IUCN Freshwater Conservation Committee
• Conseil Scientifique, Parc Naturel Regional de la Brenne
• Conseil Scientfique, Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest
• British Ecological Society BSBI Referee for Callitriche, Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium, Sparganium, Zannichellia palustris and general aquatic plants