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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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  • 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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  • 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
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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

    Holder, A. J., Rowe, R., McNamara, N. P., Donnison, I. S., McCalmont, J.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 1298-1317
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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