School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Prof Jon Lloyd's research interests include isotopic fractionations during photosynthesis and respiration, the exchange of CO2, water vapour and energy between natural ecosystems and the environment, and the integration of physiology into models of mass and energy transfer between the atmosphere and the biosphere. Further interests include the photosynthetic gas exchange of plants relative to plant growth, atmospheric trace gas composition and change in relation to climate, and soil conditions and ecosystem structure, dynamics and productivity.

CURRENT PROJECTS

• RAINFOR
  The Amazon Forest Inventory Network has been established to monitor the biomass and dynamics of the Amazonian forests
• TCOS-Siberia
  Development of an observation system to determine the net carbon balance of Siberia and record its annual variation

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• Ecology and Global Change
• TROBIT

PUBLICATIONS

• Ensminger, I., Schmidt, L. and Lloyd, J (2008) Soil temperature and intermittent frost modulate the rate of recovery of photosynthesis in Scots pine under simulated spring conditions. New Phytologist (in press)
• Zaragoza-Castells, J., Sanchez-Gomez, D., Hartley, I. P., Matesnaz, S., Valladeres, F., Lloyd, J. and Aktin, O. K. (2008) Climate dependent variations in leaf respiration in a dryland low-productivity Mediterranean forest: the importance of acclimation in both high-light and shaded habitats. Functional Ecology (in press)

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