Profile

Biography

Andreas is an ecologist with a particular focus on linking plant and soil carbon fluxes to climate change. He has special expertise in carbon stock and flux measurements and modelling of soil carbon dynamics and also in using stable isotopes for carbon tracer studies. His major activity is field soil respiration measurements, understanding its component fluxes (i.e. mycorrhizal fungi),  and improve modelling terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics, especially forests and peatlands (he developed the MILLENNIA peatland model).

HOver the past 8 years his role within the CTCD/NCEO (see below) has been to coordinate the ground based carbon flux measurements and to explore the potential of using earth observation (EO) data for improved understanding of terrestrial carbon dynamic. Within a Defra grant (CTE1121) his particular focus is on assessing management strategies of UK upland peatlands in relation to biodiversity, water quality and carbon dynamics (carbon dioxide and methane) and to further develop the MILLENNIA peat cohort model.

Career

Andreas joined SEI York in 2002 as a post doctoral researcher within the Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics (CTCD). Since 2008 he then joint the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), a follow up of the CTCD.

Andreas also holds PhD in Biology on carbon allocation in the mycorrhizal symbioses from the University of York and works as a part time lecturer at the Centre for Life Long Learning at York University and is a frequent speaker at outreach events on the science of climate change.

Research

Current projects

• Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics
• Carbon cycle science
• The Breathing Forest
• Impact of deforestation on climate change

Publications

Selected publications

Selected Scientific Publications

A. Heinemeyer , V. Gruber & M. Bahn. The ‘Gas-Snake’: Design and validation of a versatile membrane-based gas flux measurement system in a grassland soil respiration study. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 154-155: 166-173.

A. Heinemeyer & N.P. McNamara (2011) Comparing the closed static versus the closed dynamic chamber flux methodology: implications for soil respiration studies. Plant and Soil, 346: 145–151.

A. Heinemeyer , M. Wilkinson, R. Vargas, J.-A. Subke, E. Casella, J.I.L. Morison & P. Ineson (2011) Exploring the “overflow tap” theory: linking forest soil CO2 fluxes and individual mycorrhizosphere components to photosynthesis. Biogeosciences, 9, 79–95, 2012.

J.C.R. Smarta, K. Hicks, T. Morrissey, A. Heinemeyer, D. Raffaelli, M.A. Sutton & M. Ashmore (2011) Applying the Ecosystem Service Concept to Air Quality Management in the UK: a Case Study for Ammonia. Environmetrics, 22: 649–661.

A. Heinemeyer , C. Di Bene, A.R. Lloyd, D. Tortorella, R. Baxter, B. Huntley, A. Gelsomino &  P. Ineson (2011) Soil respiration: implications of the plant-soil continuum and respiration chamber collar-insertion depth on measurement and modelling of soil CO2 efflux rates in three ecosystems. European Journal of Soil Science, 62: 82–94.

A. Heinemeyer , S. Croft, M.H. Garnett, M. Gloor, J. Holden, M.R. Lomas & P. Ineson (2010) The MILLENNIA peat cohort model, predicting past, present and future soil carbon budgets and fluxes under changing climates in peatlands. Climate Research (Special Issue: Climate Change & the British Uplands), 45: 207–226

F. Eigenbrod, B.J. Anderson, P.R. Armsworth, A. Heinemeyer, S.F. Jackson, M. Parnell, C.D. Thomas & K.J. Gaston (2009) Ecosystem service benefits of contrasting conservation strategies in a human-dominated region. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 276: 2903-2911 ; doi : 10.1098/rspb.2009.0528.

B.J. Anderson, P.R. Armsworth, F. Eigenbrod, C.D. Thomas, S. Gillings, A. Heinemeyer, D.B. Roy, K.J. Gaston (2009) Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem services. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46: 888-896.

I.P. Hartley, A. Heinemeyer, S.P. Evans, P. Ineson (2007). The effect of soil warming on bulk soil versus rhizosphere respiration. Global Change Biology , 13: 2654-2667.

A. Heinemeyer , I.P. Hartley, S.P. Evans, J.A. Carreira de la Fuente, P. Ineson (2007) Forest soil CO₂ flux: uncovering the contribution and environmental responses of ectomycorrhizas. Global Change Biology 13 : 1786–1797.

A. Heinemeyer , P. Ineson, N. Ostle and A.H. Fitter (2006). Respiration of the external mycelium in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis shows strong dependence on recent photosynthates and acclimation to temperature. New Phytologist , 171: 159-170.

F. Eigenbrod, B.J. Anderson, P.R. Armsworth, A. Heinemeyer, S.F. Jackson, M. Parnell, C.D. Thomas & K.J. Gaston (2009) Ecosystem service benefits of contrasting conservation strategies in a human-dominated region. Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0528.

B.J. Anderson, P.R. Armsworth, F. Eigenbrod, C.D. Thomas, S. Gillings, A. Heinemeyer, D.B. Roy, K.J. Gaston (2009) Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem services. Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 888-896.
 

Full publications list

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Book chapters and reports

• Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology. Eds. Kutsch W, Bahn M & Heinemeyer A. Cambridge University Press (published in Oct 2009; ISBN: ISBN-13: 9780521865616). (REF)
• Subke J-A, Heinemeyer A & Reichstein M. Experimental design to scale up in time and space and its statistical considerations. In: Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology. Eds. Kutsch W, Bahn M & Heinemeyer A. Cambridge University Press.
• Moyano FE, Atkin OK, Bahn M, Bruhn D, Burton AJ, Heinemeyer A, Kutsch W, Wieser G. Respiration from Roots and the Mycorrhizosphere. In: Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology. Eds. Kutsch W, Bahn M & Heinemeyer A. Cambridge University Press.
• Rodeghiero M, Heinemeyer A, Schrumpf M, Bellamy P. Determination of changes in soil carbon stocks. In: Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology. Eds. Kutsch W, Bahn M & Heinemeyer A. Cambridge University Press.
• Kutsch W, Bahn M, Heinemeyer A & IA Janssens. Towards a standardized protocol for the measurement of soil CO2 efflux. In: Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology. Eds. Kutsch W., Bahn M. Heinemeyer A. Cambridge University Press.
• Kutsch W, Bahn M & Heinemeyer A. Soil carbon relations – an overview. In: Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology. Eds. Kutsch W., Bahn M. Heinemeyer A. Cambridge University Press.
• Bahn M, Kutsch W & Heinemeyer A. Emerging issues and challenges for an integrated understanding of soil carbon fluxes. In: Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology. Eds. Kutsch W., Bahn M. Heinemeyer A. Cambridge University Press.
  

Teaching

Other teaching

Andreas teaches the following courses:

a) Centre for Life Long Learning: Ecology and Systems' thinking as part of the accreddited course 'Urban Hotriculture'.

b) Environment Department: Global carbon dynamics - linking atmosphere, plant and soil as part of Dr Nicola Carslaw's climate change module.