Staff Profile Dr Heather Pardoe
Senior Curator: Vascular Plant Taxonomy
Contact Details
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3294
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Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
B.Sc. (Joint Honours: Biology/Geography), PhD. on the relationship between modern pollen deposition and vegetation on Norwegian glacier forelands. Fellow of the Linnean Society. Founder member of the Pollen Monitoring Programme. Founder member of the BES Palaeoecology Special Interest Group and member of the steering committee. Member of the British Ecological Society, the Quaternary Research Association and the Society for the History of Natural History.
Research Interests
Vascular plant taxonomy, surface pollen-vegetation relationship; modern and Holocene palynology and palaeoecology in Wales, in Scandinavia and across Europe; climate change and change in plant distribution and diversity; pollen collection techniques; plant succession; arctic-alpine plants; palaeoecological techniques and statistical analysis; botany and vegetation history of Wales; botanical illustration; history of natural history, economic botany and decolonisation.
Keywords
Collections and curation, plant taxonomy, pollen-vegetation relationship, alpine species, history of botany, botanical illustrationLinks
Selected Publications
Pardoe, H. S., Nicol, P., Kitto, N., Roberts, F. A., and Dunrod, J., 2024. Working with local communities to enhance the understanding and interpretation of natural history collections: lessons learnt from the Rights and Rites project. Journal of Natural Science Collections. 12. pp. 37–56.
Statham, M., Pardoe, H. S., & Cunningham, V. 2023. The Legacy of Welsh Botanist Jessie Gwendoline O’Callaghan (née Insole; 1882–1932). Collections, 19(1), 3–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231160456
Abraham, V., Hicks, S., Svobodová-Svitavská, H., Bozilova, E., Panajiotidis, S., Filipova-Marinova, M., Jensen, C. E., Tonkov, S., Pidek, I. A., Święta-Musznicka, J., Zimny, M., Kvavadze, E., Filbrandt-Czaja, A., Hättestrand, M., Karlıoğlu Kılıç, N., Kosenko, J., Nosova, M., Severova, E., Volkova, O., Hallsdóttir, M., Kalniņa, L., Noryśkiewicz, A. M., Noryśkiewicz, B., Pardoe, H. S., Christodoulou, A., Koff, T., Fontana, S. L., Alenius, T., Isaksson, E., Seppä, H., Veski, S., Pędziszewska, A., Weiser, M., and Giesecke, T. Patterns in recent and Holocene pollen accumulation rates across Europe – the Pollen Monitoring Programme Database as a tool for vegetation reconstruction, Biogeosciences, 18, 4511–4534, DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-4511-2021
Pardoe, H. S., Cleal, C. J., Berry, C. M., Cascales-Miñana, B., Davis, B. A. S., Diez, J. B., Filipova-Marinova, M. V., Giesecke, T., Hilton, J., Ivanov, D., Kustatscher, E., Leroy, S. A. G., McElwain, J. C., Opluštil, S., Popa, M. E., Seyfullah, L. J., Stolle, E., Thomas, B. A., & Uhl, D., 2021. Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 2: How to measure and analyse past plant biodiversity. In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Vol. 580, p. 110618). Elsevier BV., DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110618
Pardoe, H.S., 2021. Identifying floristic diversity from the pollen record in open environments; considerations and limitations Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 578(1):110560., DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110560
Cleal, C., Pardoe, H. S., Slade, K., Whyman, S., Tangney, R., & Jüttner, I., 2021. The Welsh National Herbarium, Botany Letters, DOI: 10.1080/23818107.2021.1977178
Cleal, C., Pardoe, H. S., Berry, C. M., Cascales-Miñana, B., Davis, B. A. S., Diez, J. B., Filipova-Marinova, M. V., Giesecke, T., Hilton, J., Ivanov, D., Kustatscher, E., Leroy, S. A. G., McElwain, J. C., Opluštil, S., Popa, M. E., Seyfullah, L. J., Stolle, E., Thomas, B. A., & Uhl, D., 2021. Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record? In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Vol. 576, p. 110481). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110481
Davis, B. A. S., Chevalier, M., Sommer, P., Carter, V. A., Finsinger, W., Mauri, A., Phelps, L. N., Zanon, M., Abegglen, R., Åkesson, C. M., Alba-Sánchez, F., Anderson, R. S., Antipina, T. G., Atanassova, J. R., Beer, R., Belyanina, N. I., Blyakharchuk, T. A., Borisova, O. K., Bozilova, E., Bukreeva, G., Bunting, M. J., Clò, E., Colombaroli, D., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Desprat, S., Di Rita, F., Djamali, M., Edwards, K. J., Fall, P. L., Feurdean, A., Fletcher, W., Florenzano, A., Furlanetto, G., Gaceur, E., Galimov, A. T., Gałka, M., García-Moreiras, I., Giesecke, T., Grindean, R., Guido, M. A., Gvozdeva, I. G., Herzschuh, U., Hjelle, K. L., Ivanov, S., Jahns, S., Jankovska, V., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kitaba, I., Kołaczek, P., Lapteva, E. G., Latałowa, M., Lebreton, V., Leroy, S., Leydet, M., Lopatina, D. A., López-Sáez, J. A., Lotter, A. F., Magri, D., Marinova, E., Matthias, I., Mavridou, A., Mercuri, A. M., Mesa-Fernández, J. M., Mikishin, Y. A., Milecka, K., Montanari, C., Morales-Molino, C., Mrotzek, A., Muñoz Sobrino, C., Naidina, O. D., Nakagawa, T., Nielsen, A. B., Novenko, E. Y., Panajiotidis, S., Panova, N. K., Papadopoulou, M., Pardoe, H. S., Pędziszewska, A., Petrenko, T. I., Ramos-Román, M. J., Ravazzi, C., Rösch, M., Ryabogina, N., Sabariego Ruiz, S., Salonen, J. S., Sapelko, T. V., Schofield, J. E., Seppä, H., Shumilovskikh, L., Stivrins, N., Stojakowits, P., Svobodova Svitavska, H., Święta-Musznicka, J., Tantau, I., Tinner, W., Tobolski, K., Tonkov, S., Tsakiridou, M., Valsecchi, V., Zanina, O. G., and Zimny, M., 2020. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2423–2445, DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2423-2020
Cornish, C., Allan, P., Gardiner, L., Nicol, P., Pardoe, H. S., Sherwood, C., Webster, R., Young, D., & Nesbitt, M., 2020. Between Metropole and Province: circulating botany in British museums, 1870–1940. In Archives of Natural History (Vol. 47, Issue 1, pp. 124–146). Edinburgh University Press. DOI: 10.3366/anh.2020.0627
Pardoe, H.S., Cleal, C.J. & Fraser, H.E. (2019) Bibliography of European Palaeobotany and Palynology 2016–2017. National Museum Wales, Cardiff. ISBN: 978-0-7200-0635-3.
Pardoe, H.S. & Lazarus, M.H. (2018) Images of Botany: Celebrating the Contribution of Women to the History of Botanical Illustration. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. Focus Issue: Women & Collections. 14 (4), 549–570.
Pardoe, H.S., Cleal, C.J. & Fraser, H.E. (2017) Bibliography of European Palaeobotany and Palynology 2014–2015. National Museum Wales, Cardiff. ISBN: 978-0-7200-0640-7
Edwards, K.J. & Pardoe, H.S. (2017) How palynology could have been paepalology: the naming of a discipline. Palynology, 42, 1–16.
Pardoe, H.S. 2014. Surface pollen deposition on glacier forelands in southern Norway II: Spatial patterns across the Jotunheimen-Jostedalsbreen region. The Holocene, 24, 1675–1685.
Davis, B.A.S., Zanon, M., Collins, P., Mauri, A., Bakker, J., Barboni, D., Barthelmes, A., Beaudouin, C., Bjune, A.E., Bozilova, E., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Brayshay, B.A., Brewer, S., Brugiapaglia, E., Bunting, J., Connor, S.E., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Edwards, K., Ejarque, A., Fall, P., Florenzano, A., Fyfe, R., Galop, D., Giardini, M., Giesecke, T., Grant, M.J., Guiot, J., Jahns, S., Jankovská, V., Juggins, S., Kahrmann, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kühl, N., Kuneš, P., Lapteva, E.G., Leroy, S.A.G., Leydet, M., López Sáez, J.A., Masi, A., Matthias, I., Mazier, F., Meltsov, V., Mercuri, A.M., Miras, Y., Mitchell, F.J.G., Morris, J.L., Naughton, F., Nielsen, A.B., Novenko, E., Odgaard, B., Ortu, E., Overballe-Petersen, M.V., Pardoe, H.S., Peglar, S.M., Pidek, I.A., Sadori, L., Seppä, H., Severova, E., Shaw, H., Święta-Musznicka, J., Theuerkauf, M., Tonkov, S., Veski, S., van der Knaap, P., van Leeuwen, J.F.N., Woodbridge, J., Zimny, M. & Kaplan, J.O. 2013. The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 22, 521-530.
Giesecke, T., Fontana, S.L., van der Knaap, W.O., Pardoe, H.S. & Pidek, I.A. 2010. From early pollen trapping experiments to the pollen monitoring programme. Vegetation history and Archaeobotany, 19, 247–258.
Knaap, W.O. van der, van Leeuwen, J.F.N., Svitavská-Svobodová, H., Pidek, I.A., Kvavadze, E., Chichinadze, M., Giesecke, T., Kaszewsk, B.M., Oberli, F., Kalniņa, L., Pardoe, H.S., Tinner, W. & Ammann, B. 2010. Annual pollen traps reveal the complexity of climatic control on pollen productivity in Europe and the Caucasus. Vegetation history and Archaeobotany, 19, 285-307.
Pardoe, H.S., Giesecke, T., van der Knaap, W.O., Svitavská-Svobodová, H., Kvavadze, E.V., Panajiotidis, S., Gerasimidis, A., Pidek, I.A., Zimny, M., Świeta-Musznicka, J., Latalowa, M., Noryskiewicz, A.M., Bozilova, E., Tonkov, S., Filipova-Marinova, M.V., van Leeuwen, J.F.N. & Kalniņa, L. 2010. Comparing pollen spectra from modified Tauber traps and moss samples: examples from a selection of woodlands across Europe. Vegetation history and Archaeobotany, 19, 271–283.
Lazarus, M.H. & Pardoe, H.S. 2009. Bute’s Botanical tables: dictated by Nature. Archives of natural history, 36, 277–298.
Pardoe, H.S. 2006. Surface pollen deposition on glacier forelands in southern Norway I: local patterns of representation and source area at Storbreen, Jotunheimen. The Holocene, 16, 1149–1161.
Pardoe, H. & Lazarus, M. 2004. Three generations of women botanical artists at the National Museum of Wales [PDF]. Botanical Society of the British Isles, Welsh Bulletin, 74, 8-10.
Lazarus, M.H. & Pardoe, H.S. (eds) 2003.
Pardoe, H. & Lazarus, M. 2003. The botanical paintings of Dr Harold Drinkwater [PDF]. Botanical Society of the British Isles, Welsh Bulletin, 71, 21 -25.
Pardoe, H.S. 2001. The representation of taxa in surface pollen spectra on alpine and sub-alpine glacier forelands in southern Norway. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 117, 63-78.
Hicks, S., Tinsley, H., Pardoe, H. & Cundill, P. (eds) 1999. European Pollen Monitoring Programme. Supplement to the EPMP Guidelines. Oulu University Press, Oulu.
Pardoe, H.S., Cleal, C.J., Fraser, H.E. & Thomas, B.A. 1999. Bibliography of European Palaeobotany and Palynology 1996–1997. National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Cardiff, 168 pp.
Lazarus, M., Pardoe, H. & Spillards, D. 1997.
Hicks, S., Latalowa, M., Ammann, B., Pardoe, H. & Tinsley, H. (eds) 1996. European Pollen Monitoring Programme; Project description and guidelines. Oulu University Press, Oulu.
Pardoe, H.S. 1996. Micro-scale patterns of modern pollen deposition within three alpine plant communities. New Phytologist, 132, 327-341.
Pardoe, H.S. 1996. The influence of terrain age on the species composition of alpine and sub-alpine 'climax' plant communities in southern Norway [PDF]. Oecologia montana, 5, 61-70.
Pardoe, H.S. 1995. Mountain plants of the British Isles, An introduction to our native arctic-alpine flora. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 55 pp.
Caseldine, C.J. & Pardoe, H.S. 1994. Surface pollen studies from alpine/sub-alpine southern Norway: applications to Holocene data. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 82, 1-15.
Pardoe, H.S. & Thomas, B.A. 1992. Snowdon's plants since the glaciers. A vegetational history. The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 32 pp. [available also in Welsh].
Thomas, B.A., Pardoe, H.S. & Fraser, H.E. (eds) 1992. Bibliography of European Palaeobotany and Palynology 1990–1991. The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 227 pp.
Pardoe, H.S. & Matthews, J.A. 1989. Chernobyl 137Cs fallout in pollen traps from the Jotunheimen - Jostedalsbreen area, southern Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, 43, 221-229