Simon Jones

Our ambitious experiment in the Amazon rainforest - ⁦@amazonface⁩ 6 rings of towers: 3 will keep CO2 levels within them high so we can study how rainforest trees respond. eg. does growth keep increasing at high CO2? Crucial knowledge for calculating future carbon budgets

My final PhD paper has been published in @EGU_BioGeo this week 🌍 The study is Part 3 of our 'Soil Carbon in CMIP6' series, defining feedbacks to CO2 (β) and global warming (γ) 🌳🦠 With co-authors @coxypm @PFriedling @semiupsidedown @eleanorjb See more➡️ doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-…

Why does plant respiration decay overnight? @simonrobjones provides an answer in this elegant modelling paper, with Dan Bruhn, Lina Mercado, @NinaRaoult @ExeterUniMaths @GSI_Exeter doi.org/10.1038/s43247…

I may go on about non-structural carbohydrates but you have to admit they do quite neatly explain declines in nocturnal plant respiration. Read more in my new paper with @coxypm, Lina Mercado, Dan Bruhn and @NinaRaoult published with @SpringerNature. nature.com/articles/s4324…

Cool new paper from @simonrobjones, which applies control theory to the modelling of plant stomatal conductance. @ExeterUniMaths @GSI_Exeter frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our new study evaluating soil carbon simulation in CMIP6 has been published today in @EGU_BioGeo 🦠🌳🌍 Thank you to my co-authors @coxypm, @semiupsidedown & @eleanorjb! @4C_H2020 @UofE_Research @MetOffice_Sci @ERC_Research @UniOfExeterESE @GSI_Exeter bg.copernicus.org/articles/19/46…

📰Published! 📰 Our article on the drivers of #hydraulic traits in Bornean dipterocarps is now published and fully formatted in @NewPhyt. Full text here: 👉 doi.org/10.1111/nph.18… What did we find? A thread...🧵

@rosie_a_fisher @RolandSeferian we're currently having a 2-hub + online hybrid event between UK and Brazil. This has reduced travel, but also allows 1-2-1 interaction. Working so far -but yes we are learning how to do hybrid better. We certainly shouldn't revert to a "all must travel" regime

It turns out a PhD in plant modelling just about qualifies you to hold stuff for real ecologists in the lab. Thanks to @biobartholomew for showing me part of the process for analysing NSC concentrations in tree cores at the University of Campinas!

The Impact of a Simple Representation of Non-Structural Carbohydrates on the Simulated Response of Tropical Forests to Drought biogeosciences-discuss.net/bg-2019-452/ by Simon Jones, @DocAHarper, Lucy Rowland et al.

Robust Ecosystem Demography (RED): a parsimonious approach to modelling vegetation dynamics in Earth System Models geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/gmd-2019-300/ @AArgles