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Dr Jon McCalmont

Dr Jon McCalmont
Dr Jon McCalmont
Dr Jon McCalmont

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 Biology 
    2014 - Aberystwyth University 

    Understanding greenhouse gas exchange and carbon dynamics following land-use change from grassland to perennial energy crops

  • BSc Countryside Management 
    2011 - Aberystwyth University 

    BSc (1st Class Hons) in conservation and land management

Research

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

    McCalmont, J., Shepherd, A., Thornton, J., Hastings, A.
    Total Environment Advances, 200167
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  • Dynamics of Miscanthus spp. overwinter leaf litter drop and decomposition

    McCalmont, J., Hawkins, S., Davies, J., Holder, A. J., Donnison, I. S., Farrar, K.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 17, no. 12, e70091
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  • Effect of tillage method on early root growth of Miscanthus

    Holder, A. J., Robson, P. R. H., McCalmont, J.
    Annals of Applied Biology, vol. 187, no. 2, pp. 192-204
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  • An estimation of Network Rail soil carbon stocks based on data from disused rail lines

    Thomas, J. D., McCalmont, J., Strong, N., Wright, Z., Hastings, A.
    Science of the Total Environment, vol. 987, 179763
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  • Assessing the Sustainability of Miscanthus and Willow as Global Bioenergy Crops: Current and Future Climate Conditions (Part 2)

    Abdalla, M., Hastings, A., Campbell, G., McCalmont, J., Shepherd, A., Smith, P.
    Agronomy, vol. 15, no. 6, 1491
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  • Assessing the Sustainability of Miscanthus and Willow as Global Bioenergy Crops: Current and Future Climate Conditions (Part 2)

    Abdalla, M., Hastings, A., Campbell, G., Mccalmont, J., Shepherd, A., Smith, P.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
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  • Upscaling Miscanthus production in the United Kingdom: The benefits, challenges, and trade-offs

    Hodgson, E. M., McCalmont, J., Rowe, R., Whitaker, J., Holder, A., Clifton-Brown, J., Thornton, J., Hastings, A., Robson, P. R. H., Webster, R. J., Farrar, K., Donnison, I. S.
    GCB Bioenergy, vol. 16, no. 8, e13177
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  • Early impacts of marginal land-use transition to Miscanthus on soil quality and soil carbon storage across Europe

    Bertola, M., Magenau, E., Martani, E., Kontek, M., Ashman, C., Jurišić, V., Lamy, I., Kam, J., Fornasier, F., McCalmont, J., Trindade, L. M., Amaducci, S., Clifton-Brown, J., Kiesel, A., Ferrarini, A.
    GCB Bioenergy, vol. 16, no. 6, e13145
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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

    Basri, M. H. A., McCalmont, J., Kho, L. K., Hartley, I. P., Teh, Y. A., Rumpang, E., Signori-Müller, C., Hill, T.
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 350, 110002
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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

    McCalmont, J., Heinemeyer, A., Morison, J., Xenakis, G., Bell, M., Wilkinson, M., Hastings, A.
    Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, vol. 7, 1352527
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  • Modelling the impact of forest management and CO2-fertilisation on growth and demography in a Sitka spruce plantation

    Argles, A. P., Robertson, E., Harper, A. B., Morison, J. I., Xenakis, G., Hastings, A., Mccalmont, J., Moore, J. R., Bateman, I. J., Gannon, K., Betts, R. A., Bathgate, S., Thomas, J., Heard, M., Cox, P. M.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 13487
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  • Species Selection Determines Carbon Allocation and Turnover in Miscanthus Crops: Implications for Biomass Production and C Sequestration

    Briones, M. J., Massey, A., Elias, D. M., McCalmont, J. P., Farrar, K., Donnison, I., McNamara, N. P.
    Science of the Total Environment, vol. 887, 164003
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  • Building the Policy Ecosystem in Europe for Cultivation and Use of Perennial Biomass Crops

    Clifton-Brown, J., Hastings, A., von Cossel, M., Murphy-Bokern, D., McCalmont, J., Whitaker, J., Alexopoulou, E., Amaducci, S., Andronic, L., Ashman, C., Awty-Carroll, D., Bhatia, R., Breuer, L., Cosentino, S., Cracroft-Eley, W., Donnison, I., Elbersen, B., Ferrarini, A., Ford, J., Gattinger, A., Golicz, K., Greef, J., Ingram, J., Jensen, E., Kuhn, U., Lewandowski, I., Magenau, E., Mos, M., Meyer, H., Kasperczyk, N., Petrick, M., Pogrzeba, M., Pude, R., Robson, P., Retzler, C., Rowe, R. L., Sandu, A., Schmitt, A., Schmitt, A., Schwarz, K. U., Scordia, D., Scurlock, J., Shepherd, A., Thornton, J., Trindade, L. M., Vetter, S., Wagner, M., Yamada, T., Kiesel, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Perennial biomass cropping and use: shaping the policy ecosystem in European countries

    Clifton-Brown, J. C., Hastings, A., von Cossel, M., Murphy-Bokern, D., McCalmont, J., Whittaker, J., Alexopoulou, E., Amaducci, S., Andronic, L., Ashman, C., Awty-Carroll, D., Breuer, L., Cosentino, S., Cracroft-Eley, W., Donnison, I., Elbersen, B., Ferrarini, A., Ford, J., Greef, J. M., Ingram, J., Lewandowski, I., Magenau, E., Mos, M., Petrick, M., Pogrzeba, M., Robson, P., Rowe, R. L., Sandu, A., Schwarz, K., Scordia, D., Scurlock, J., Shepherd, A., Thornton, J., Trindade, L. M., Vetter, S., Wagner, M., Wu, P., Yamada, T., Kiesel, A.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 5, 13038
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  • Gap-filling carbon dioxide, water, energy, and methane fluxes in challenging ecosystems: comparing between methods, drivers, and gap-lengths

    Zhu, S., McCalmont, J., Cardenas, L., Cunliffe, A., Olde, L., Signori Müller, C., Litvak, M., Hill, T. C.
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 332, 109365
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  • Novel Miscanthus hybrids: Modelling productivity on marginal land in Europe using dynamics of canopy development determined by light interception

    Shepherd, A., Awty-Carroll, D., Kam, J., Ashman, C., Magenau, E., Martani, E., Kontek, M., Ferrarini, A., Amaducci, S., Davey, C., Jurišić, V., Petrie, G., Al Hassan, M., Lamy, I., Lewandowski, I., de Maupeou, E., McCalmont, J., Trindade, L. M., van der Cruijsen, K., van der Pluijm, P., Rowe, R., Lovett, A., Donnison, I. S., Kiesel, A., Clifton-Brown, J. C., Hastings, A.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 444-461
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  • Yield performance of 14 novel inter- and intra-species Miscanthus hybrids across Europe

    Awty-Carroll, D., Magenau, E., Al Hassan, M., Martani, E., Kontek, M., van der Pluijm, P., Ashman, C., de Maupeou, E., McCalmont, J., Petrie, G., Davey, C., van der Cruijsen, K., Jurišić, V., Amaducci, S., Lamy, I., Shepherd, A., Kam, J., Hoogendam, A., Croci, M., Dolstra, O., Ferrarini, A., Lewandowski, I., Trindade, L. M., Kiesel, A., Clifton-Brown, J. C.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 399-423
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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

    McCalmont, J., Kho, L. K., Teh, Y. A., Chocholek, M., Rumpang, E., Rowland, L., Basri, M. H. A., Hill, T.
    Science of the Total Environment, vol. 858, no. Part 1, 159356
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  • CO2 fluxes from three different temperate grazed pastures using Eddy covariance measurements

    Cardenas, L., Olde, L., Loick, N., Griffith, B., Hill, T., Evans, J., Cowan, N., Segura, C., Sint, H., Harris, P., McCalmont, J., Zhu, S., Dobermann, A., Lee, M.
    Science of the Total Environment, vol. 831, 154819
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  • Design, instrumentation, and operation of a standard downdraft, laboratory-scale gasification testbed utilising novel seed-propagated hybrid Miscanthus pellets

    Khan, Z., Kamble, P., Reza Check, G., DiLallo, T., O'Sullivan, W., Turner, E. D., Mackay, A., Blanco-Sanchez, P., Yu, X., Bridgwater, A., Paul McCalmont, J., Donnison, I., Watson, I.
    Applied Energy, vol. 315, 118864
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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

    Zhu, S., Clement, R., McCalmont, J., Davies, C. A., Hill, T.
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 314, 108777
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  • Short‐ and long‐term carbon emissions from oil palm plantations converted from logged tropical peat swamp forest

    McCalmont, J., Kho, L. K., Teh, Y. A., Lewis, K., Chocholek, M., Rumpang, E., Hill, T.
    Global Change Biology, vol. 27, pp. 2361-2376
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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

    Kam, J., Thomas, D., Pierre, S., Ashman, C., McCalmont, J. P., Purdy, S. J.
    Food and Energy Security, vol. 9, no. 3, 224
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  • An assessment of oil palm plantation aboveground biomass stocks on tropical peat using destructive and non-destructive methods

    Lewis, K., Rumpang, E., Kho, L. K., McCalmont, J., Teh, Y. A., Gallego-Sala, A., Hill, T. C.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2230
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  • Consequential life cycle assessment of miscanthus livestock bedding, diverting straw to bioelectricity generation

    Yesufu, J., McCalmont, J. P., Clifton‐Brown, J. C., Williams, P., Hyland, J., Gibbons, J., Styles, D.
    GCB Bioenergy, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 39-53
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