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Dr Jon McCalmont

Dr Jon McCalmont
Dr Jon McCalmont
Dr Jon McCalmont

BSc, PhD

Research Fellow

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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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Dactylis glomerata L. cultivation on mercury contaminated soil and its physiological response to granular sulphur aided phytostabilization

    Pogrzeba, M., Rusinowski, S., Krzyżak, J., Szada-Borzyszkowska, A., McCalmont, J. P., Zieleźnik-Rusinowska, P., Słaboń, N., Sas-Nowosielska, A.
    Environmental Pollution, vol. 255, no. Part 2, 113271
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) simulated hydrological impacts of land use change from temperate grassland to energy crops: a case study in western UK

    Holder, A. J., Rowe, R., McNamara, N. P., Donnison, I. S., McCalmont, J.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 1298-1317
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Measured and modelled effect of land‐use change from temperate grassland to Miscanthus on soil carbon stocks after 12 years

    Holder, A. J., Clifton-Brown, J., Rowe, R., Robson, P., Elias, D., Dondini, M., McNamara, N. P., Donnison, I. S., McCalmont, J. P.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 1173-1186
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Soil N2 O emissions with different reduced tillage methods during the establishment of Miscanthus in temperate grassland

    Holder, A. J., McCalmont, J., Rowe, R., McNamara, N. P., Elias, D., Donnison, I. S.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 539-549
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • How autochthonous microorganisms influence physiological status of Zea mays L. cultivated on heavy metal contaminated soils?

    Rusinowski, S., Szada-Borzyszkowska, A., Zieleźnik-Rusinowska, P., Małkowski, E., Krzyzak, J., Woźniak, G., Sitko, K., Szopiński, M., McCalmont, J., Kalaji, H. M., Pogrzeba, M.
    Environmental Science and Pollution Research , vol. 26, pp. 4746–4763
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Breeding progress and preparedness for mass‐scale deployment of perennial lignocellulosic biomass crops switchgrass, miscanthus, willow and poplar

    Clifton-Brown, J., Harfouche, A., Casler, M. D., Jones, H. D., Macalpine, W. J., Murphy-Bokern, D., Smart, L. B., Adler, A., Ashman, C., Awty-Carroll, D., Bastien, C., Bopper, S., Botnari, V., Brancourt-Hulmel, M., Chen, Z., Clark, L. V., Cosentino, S., Dalton, S., Davey, C., Dolstra, O., Donnison, I., Flavell, R., Greef, J., Hanley, S., Hastings, A., Hertzberg, M., Hsu, T., Huang, L., Iurato, A., Jensen, E., Jin, X., Jørgensen, U., Kiesel, A., Kim, D., Liu, J., McCalmont, J. P., McMahon, B. G., Mos, M., Robson, P., Sacks, E. J., Sandu, A., Scalici, G., Schwarz, K., Scordia, D., Shafiei, R., Shield, I., Slavov, G., Stanton, B. J., Swaminathan, K., Taylor, G., Torres, A. F., Trindade, L. M., Tschaplinski, T., Tuskan, J., Yamada, T., Yeon Yu, C., -Fs Zalesny, R., Zong, J., Lewandowski, I.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 118-151
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Biomass gasification of hybrid seed Miscanthus in Glasgow’s downdraft gasifier testbed system

    Kamble, P., Khan, Z., Farooq, M., McCalmont, J., Donnison, I., Watson, I.
    Energy Procedia, vol. 158, pp. 1174-1181
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Soil nitrous oxide flux following land-use reversion from Miscanthus and SRC willow to perennial ryegrass

    McCalmont, J., Rowe, R. L., Elias, D., Whitaker, J., McNamara, N. P., Donnison, I.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 914-929
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Evapotranspiration model comparison and an estimate of field scale Miscanthus canopy precipitation interception

    Holder, A. J., McCalmont, J., McNamara, N. P., Rowe, R. L., Donnison, I. S.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 353-366
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Consensus, uncertainties and challenges for perennial bioenergy crops and land use

    Whitaker, J., Field, J. L., Bernacchi, C. J., Cerri, C. E. P., Ceulemans, R., Davies, C. A., Delucia, E. H., Donnison, I. S., McCalmont, J. P., Paustian, K., Rowe, R. L., Smith, P., Thornley, P., Mcnamara, N. P.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 150-164
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Economic and Environmental Assessment of Seed and Rhizome Propagated Miscanthus in the UK

    Hastings, A. F. S. J., Mos, M., Yesufu, J. A., McCalmont, J., Schwarz, K., Shafiei, R., Ashman, C., Nunn, C., Schüle, H., Cosentino, S., Scalici, G., Scordia, D., Wagner, M., Clifton-Brown, J. C.
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 1058
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • An Operational In Situ Soil Moisture & Soil Temperature Monitoring Network for West Wales, UK: The WSMN Network

    Petropoulos, G. P., McCalmont, J.
    Sensors, vol. 17, no. 7, 1481
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Establishment, growth and yield potential of the perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus on degraded coal mine soils

    Jeżowski, S., Mos, M., Buckby, S., Cerazy, J., Owczarzak, W., Mocek, A., Kaczmarek, Z., McCalmont, J.
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 726
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Relationships between soil parameters and physiological status of Miscanthus x giganteus cultivated on soil contaminated with trace elements under NPK fertilisation vs. microbial inoculation

    Pogrzeba, M., Rusinowski, S., Sitko, K., Krzyżak, J., Skalska, A., Małkowski, E., Ciszek, D., Werle, S., McCalmont, J., Mos, M., Kalaji, H.
    Environmental Pollution, vol. 225, pp. 163-174
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Environmental influences on the growing season duration and ripening of diverse Miscanthus germplasm grown in six countries

    Nunn, C., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Kalinina, O., Özgüven, M., Schüle, H., Tarakanov, I. G., Van Der Weijde, T., Anisimov, A. A., Iqbal, Y., Kiesel, A., Khokhlov, N. F., McCalmont, J. P., Meyer, H., Mos, M., Trindade, L. M., Lewandowski, I., Clifton-Brown, J. C., Mastrorilli, M. (ed.)
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, pp. 1-14
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Partitioning of ecosystem respiration of CO2 released during land-use transition from temperate agricultural grassland to Miscanthus × giganteus

    McCalmont, J., McNamara, N., Donnison, I., Farrar, K., Clifton-Brown, J.
    GCB Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 710-724
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK

    McCalmont, J., Hastings, A., McNamara, N. P., Richter, G. M., Robson, P., Donnison, I. S., Clifton-Brown, J.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 489-507
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Development of Miscanthus as a Bioenergy Crop

    Clifton-Brown, J., McCalmont, J., Hastings, A.
    Biofuels and Bioenergy. Love, J., Bryant, J. A. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 119-131, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Impact of Biomass Feedstock Composition and Pre-treatments on Tar Formation during Biomass Gasification

    Corton, J., Paula, B., Khan, Z., McCalmont, J., Yu, X., Fletcher, G., Croxton, S., Sharp, J., Paul, M., Watson I., I., Donnison, I.
    Advances in Biofeedstocks and Biofuels: Biofeedstocks and Their Processing, I. Singh, L. K., Chaudhary, G. (eds.). Wiley
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • An interyear comparison of CO2 flux and carbon budget at a commercial-scale land-use transition from semi-improved grassland to Miscanthus x giganteus

    McCalmont, J., McNamara, N., Donnison, I., Farrar, K., Clifton-Brown, J.
    GCB Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 229-245
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Progress in upscaling Miscanthus biomass production for the European bio-economy with seed-based hybrids 

    Clifton-Brown, J., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Mos, M., McCalmont, J. P., Ashman, C., Awty-Carroll, D., Cerazy, J., Chiang, Y., Cosentino, S., Cracroft-Eley, W., Scurlock, J., Donnison, I. S., Glover, C., Gołąb, I., Greef, J. M., Gwyn, J., Harding, G., Hayes, C., Helios, W., Hsu, T., Huang, L. S., Jeżowski, S., Kim, D., Kiesel, A., Kotecki, A., Krzyzak, J., Lewandowski, I., Lim, S. H., Liu, J., Loosely, M., Meyer, H., Murphy-Bokern, D., Nelson, W., Pogrzeba, M., Robinson, G., Robson, P., Rogers, C., Scalici, G., Schuele, H., Shafiei, R., Shevchuk, O., Schwarz, K., Squance, M., Swaller, T., Thornton, J., Truckses, T., Botnari, V., Vizir, I., Wagner, M., Warren, R., Webster, R., Yamada, T., Youell, S., Xi, Q., Zong, J., Flavell, R.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 6-17
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Heavy Metal Uptake by Novel Miscanthus Seed-Based Hybrids Cultivated in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil

    Krzyzak, J., Pogrzeba, M., Rusinowski, S., Clifton-Brown, J. C., McCalmont, J., Kiesel, A., Mangold, A., Mos, M.
    Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 121-132
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Simulation of greenhouse gases following land-use change to bioenergy crops using the ECOSSE model: a comparison between site measurements and model predictions

    Dondini, M., Richards, M. I. A., Pogson, M., McCalmont, J., Drewer, J., Marshall, R., Morrison, R., Yamulki, S., Harris, Z. M., Alberti, G., Siebicke, L., Taylor, G., Perks, M., Finch, J., McNamara, N. P., Smith, J. U., Smith, P.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 925-940
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Appraising the capability of a land biosphere model as a tool in modelling land surface interactions: results from its validation at selected European ecosystems

    North, M. R., Petropoulos, G. P., McCalmont, J., Ireland, G.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers

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