BSc, PhD
Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- jon.mccalmont@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
After a career in forestry I studied Conservation and Land Management for a BSc as a mature student at Aberystwyth University. Following this, I completed a PhD in 2014 studying the greenhouse gas impacts of land-use change from grassland agriculture to 2nd generation perennial biomass cropping (Miscanthus). I remained at Aberystwyth as a PDRA for a further 4 years, working across several EU wide collaborative projects based around the commercial roll-out of sustainable energy crops. My research interests primarily focus on the environmental impacts of land-use change and in 2018 I expanded my research experience into South-East Asia, with a PDRF position at Exeter University measuring the carbon impacts of tropical peat forest conversion to oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo. I am currently working within the Environmental Modelling Group at Aberdeen University as part of the Netzero+ project, administered by Exeter University, which considers the potential for expansion of UK woodland to remove atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change.
Qualifications
- PhD Biology2014 - Aberystwyth University
Understanding greenhouse gas exchange and carbon dynamics following land-use change from grassland to perennial energy crops
- BSc Countryside Management2011 - Aberystwyth University
BSc (1st Class Hons) in conservation and land management
- Research
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Research Specialisms
- Atmospheric Physics
- Environmental Biology
- Environmental Sciences
- Land Management
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Publications
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Upscaling Miscanthus production in the United Kingdom: The benefits, challenges, and trade-offs
GCB Bioenergy, vol. 16, no. 8, e13177Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEarly impacts of marginal land-use transition to Miscanthus on soil quality and soil carbon storage across Europe
GCB Bioenergy, vol. 16, no. 6, e13145Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReducing bias on soil surface CO2 flux emission measurements: Case study on a mature oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation on tropical peatland in Southeast Asia
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 350, 110002Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTimeseries partitioning of ecosystem respiration components in seasonal, non-tropical forests; comparing literature derived coefficients with evaluation at two contrasting UK forest sites
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, vol. 7, 1352527Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModelling the impact of forest management and CO2-fertilisation on growth and demography in a Sitka spruce plantation
Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 13487Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpecies Selection Determines Carbon Allocation and Turnover in Miscanthus Crops: Implications for Biomass Production and C Sequestration
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 887, 164003Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBuilding the Policy Ecosystem in Europe for Cultivation and Use of Perennial Biomass Crops
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5071/31stEUBCE2023-2DO.2.2
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/13404/
Perennial biomass cropping and use: shaping the policy ecosystem in European countries
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 5, 13038Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGap-filling carbon dioxide, water, energy, and methane fluxes in challenging ecosystems: comparing between methods, drivers, and gap-lengths
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 332, 109365Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNovel Miscanthus hybrids: Modelling productivity on marginal land in Europe using dynamics of canopy development determined by light interception
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 444-461Contributions to Journals: Articles
