BSc, PhD
Research Fellow
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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 , published under the licence.
- Publications
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An estimate of the technical potential for land-based carbon sequestration using the perennial biomass crop Miscanthus x giganteus: A case study in Wales, UK
Total Environment Advances, 200167Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Dynamics of Miscanthus spp. overwinter leaf litter drop and decomposition
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 17, no. 12, e70091Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Effect of tillage method on early root growth of Miscanthus
Annals of Applied Biology, vol. 187, no. 2, pp. 192-204Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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An estimation of Network Rail soil carbon stocks based on data from disused rail lines
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 987, 179763Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Assessing the Sustainability of Miscanthus and Willow as Global Bioenergy Crops: Current and Future Climate Conditions (Part 2)
Agronomy, vol. 15, no. 6, 1491Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Assessing the Sustainability of Miscanthus and Willow as Global Bioenergy Crops: Current and Future Climate Conditions (Part 2)
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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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Early 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Reducing 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Timeseries 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Modelling 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Species 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Building the Policy Ecosystem in Europe for Cultivation and Use of Perennial Biomass Crops
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Perennial biomass cropping and use: shaping the policy ecosystem in European countries
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 5, 13038Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Gap-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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Novel 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- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Yield 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Oil 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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CO2 fluxes from three different temperate grazed pastures using Eddy covariance measurements
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 831, 154819Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Design, 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Stable 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Short‐ 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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An 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Consequential life cycle assessment of miscanthus livestock bedding, diverting straw to bioelectricity generation
GCB Bioenergy, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 39-53Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Dactylis 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:
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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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Measured 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Soil 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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How 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Breeding 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:
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Biomass gasification of hybrid seed Miscanthus in Glasgow’s downdraft gasifier testbed system
Energy Procedia, vol. 158, pp. 1174-1181Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Soil nitrous oxide flux following land-use reversion from Miscanthus and SRC willow to perennial ryegrass
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 914-929Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Evapotranspiration model comparison and an estimate of field scale Miscanthus canopy precipitation interception
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 353-366Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Consensus, uncertainties and challenges for perennial bioenergy crops and land use
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 150-164Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Economic and Environmental Assessment of Seed and Rhizome Propagated Miscanthus in the UK
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 1058Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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An Operational In Situ Soil Moisture & Soil Temperature Monitoring Network for West Wales, UK: The WSMN Network
Sensors, vol. 17, no. 7, 1481Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Establishment, growth and yield potential of the perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus on degraded coal mine soils
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 726Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Relationships between soil parameters and physiological status of Miscanthus x giganteus cultivated on soil contaminated with trace elements under NPK fertilisation vs. microbial inoculation
Environmental Pollution, vol. 225, pp. 163-174Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Environmental influences on the growing season duration and ripening of diverse Miscanthus germplasm grown in six countries
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Partitioning of ecosystem respiration of CO2 released during land-use transition from temperate agricultural grassland to Miscanthus × giganteus
GCB Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 710-724Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 489-507Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Development of Miscanthus as a Bioenergy Crop
Biofuels and Bioenergy. Love, J., Bryant, J. A. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 119-131, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
The Impact of Biomass Feedstock Composition and Pre-treatments on Tar Formation during Biomass Gasification
Advances in Biofeedstocks and Biofuels: Biofeedstocks and Their Processing, I. Singh, L. K., Chaudhary, G. (eds.). WileyChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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An interyear comparison of CO2 flux and carbon budget at a commercial-scale land-use transition from semi-improved grassland to Miscanthus x giganteus
GCB Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 229-245Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Progress in upscaling Miscanthus biomass production for the European bio-economy with seed-based hybrids
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 6-17Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Heavy Metal Uptake by Novel Miscanthus Seed-Based Hybrids Cultivated in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil
Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 121-132Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Simulation of greenhouse gases following land-use change to bioenergy crops using the ECOSSE model: a comparison between site measurements and model predictions
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 925-940Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Appraising the capability of a land biosphere model as a tool in modelling land surface interactions: results from its validation at selected European ecosystems
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