Dr Jon McCalmont
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
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- [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: ArticlesYield performance of 14 novel inter- and intra-species Miscanthus hybrids across Europe
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 399-423Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation on tropical peatland in South East Asia: photosynthetic response to soil drainage level for mitigation of soil carbon emissions
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 858, no. Part 1, 159356Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCO2 fluxes from three different temperate grazed pastures using Eddy covariance measurements
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 831, 154819Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDesign, instrumentation, and operation of a standard downdraft, laboratory-scale gasification testbed utilising novel seed-propagated hybrid Miscanthus pellets
Applied Energy, vol. 315, 118864Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStable gap-filling for longer eddy covariance data gaps: A globally validated machine-learning approach for carbon dioxide, water, and energy fluxes
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 314, 108777Contributions to Journals: ArticlesShort‐ and long‐term carbon emissions from oil palm plantations converted from logged tropical peat swamp forest
Global Change Biology, vol. 27, pp. 2361-2376Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new carbohydrate retaining variety of Miscanthus increases biogas methane yields compared to M x giganteus and narrows the yield advantage of maize
Food and Energy Security, vol. 9, no. 3, 224Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn assessment of oil palm plantation aboveground biomass stocks on tropical peat using destructive and non-destructive methods
Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2230Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConsequential life cycle assessment of miscanthus livestock bedding, diverting straw to bioelectricity generation
GCB Bioenergy, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 39-53Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDactylis glomerata L. cultivation on mercury contaminated soil and its physiological response to granular sulphur aided phytostabilization
Environmental Pollution, vol. 255, no. Part 2, 113271Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113271
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Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) simulated hydrological impacts of land use change from temperate grassland to energy crops: a case study in western UK
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 1298-1317Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMeasured and modelled effect of land‐use change from temperate grassland to Miscanthus on soil carbon stocks after 12 years
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 1173-1186Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSoil N2 O emissions with different reduced tillage methods during the establishment of Miscanthus in temperate grassland
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 539-549Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow autochthonous microorganisms influence physiological status of Zea mays L. cultivated on heavy metal contaminated soils?
Environmental Science and Pollution Research , vol. 26, pp. 4746–4763Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBreeding progress and preparedness for mass‐scale deployment of perennial lignocellulosic biomass crops switchgrass, miscanthus, willow and poplar
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 118-151Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12566
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11339/5/Clifton_Brown_et_al_2018_GCB_Bioenergy.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11339/3/Breeding_progress_and_preparedness_for_mass_scale_deployment_of_perennial_lignocellulosic_biomass_crops_switchgrass_miscanthus_willow_and_poplar.pdf
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