Dr Ian Jones

Physical Limnologist, Lake Ecosystem Group

Current work

• Use of automatic monitoring data in limnology
• Effects of attenuation coefficients on lake thermal structure
• Effects of changing retention times on lake phytoplankton populations
• Phenological change in lakes
• Spatial variability of vertical diffusivity in lakes

Research interests

•  Interactions between physics and ecology in lakes
• Impacts of climate change on lakes
• Automatic lake monitoring buoys
• Mixing in lakes
• Heat and momentum fluxes at the lake surface
• Nutrient transport in lakes

Brief CV

•  Physical limnologist, Lake Ecology Group, CEH, UK
•  PhD Physical Oceanography, Liverpool University, UK
•  MSc Non-linear Mathematics, Bath University, UK
•  BSc Mathematics, Warwick University, UK
•  Member of GLEON (Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network)

Recent publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

Jones I.D., Page T., Elliott J.A., Thackeray S.J. & Heathwaite A.L. (2011) Increases in lake phytoplankton biomass caused by future climate-driven changes to seasonal river flow. Global Change Biology. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02332.x

Thackeray S.J., Sparks T.H., Frederiksen M., Burthe S., Bacon P.J., Bell J.R., Botham M.S., Brereton T.M., Bright P.W., Carvalho L., Clutton-Brock T.H., Dawson A., Edwards M., Elliott J.M., Harrington R., Johns D., Jones I.D., Jones J.T., Leech D.I., Pomeroy P., Roy D.B., Scott W.A., Smith M., Smithers R.J., Winfield I.J. & Wanless S. (2010) Widespread trophic imbalances in rates of phenological change. Global Change Biology. 16, 3304–3313

Rooney G.C. & Jones I.D. (2010) Coupling the 1-D lake model FLake to the community land-surface model JULES. Boreal Environmental Research, 15, 501–512.

Spears B.M. & Jones I.D. (2010) Spatial and seasonal variations in the depth of the wave mixed layer in a shallow loch (Loch Leven, Scotland): evidence of climatic forcing. Hydrobiologia, 646, 49–59.

Jones I., Persson I. & Sahlberg J. (2010) Modelling the impact of climate change on the thermal characteristics of lakes. In: The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes (Ed.: G. George). pp. 103–120. Springer, Netherlands.

Meis S., Thackeray S.J. & Jones I.D. (2009) Effects of recent climate change on phytoplankton phenology in a temperate lake. Freshwater Biology, 54, 1888–1898.

Elliott, J.A., Jones, I.D. & Page, T. (2009) The importance of nutrient source in determining the influence of retention time on phytoplankton: an explorative modelling study of a naturally well-flushed lake. Hydrobiologia, 627, 129–142.

Bernhardt J., Elliott J.A. & Jones I.D. (2008) Modelling the effects on phytoplankton communities of changing mixed depth and background extinction coefficient on three contrasting lakes in the English Lake District. Freshwater Biology, 53, 2573–2586.

Persson I. & Jones I.D. (2008) The effect of lake colour on lake hydrodynamics: a model study. Freshwater Biology, 53, 2345–2355.

Thackeray S.J., Jones I.D. & Maberly S.M. (2008) Long-term change in the phenology of spring blooming phytoplankton: non-linearity and species specific responses. Journal of Ecology, 96, 523–535.

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