Andrew Thomas

Prof, BSc Physical Geography (Swansea) PhD (Swansea)

  • Aberystwyth University
    Llandinam Building
    Penglais
    Aberystwyth

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20052022

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Proffil personol

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Andrew is a graduate of Swansea University, where he obtained a Geography degree and Ph.D. His doctoral research looked at the impact of fire on soil erosion, slope hydrology and nutrient losses in the eucalyptus and pine forests of central Portugal. He has held lectureship positions at Reading (1997), Salford (1998) and Manchester Metropolitan (2002) Universities where he was made Reader in Physical Geography in 2011. He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Peter Fleming award in 2008 and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2010. He joined the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth in October 2012.

Diddordebau ymchwil

External Group Affiliation * Climate Change Consortium for Wales (Aberystwyth director, from January 2013)

Research Interests

Drylands, soil carbon, soil CO2 efflux, biological soil crusts

Andrew's expertise is in dryland environments, particularly in the Kalahari of southern Africa. He is interested in predicting the effects of climatic and land use change on soils and the carbon cycle. Funding from NERC (CEH/L/027/2007?) and The Leverhulme Trust (RF/4/RFG/2009/0263) allowed him to establish how grazing intensity, rainfall and temperature affect land-atmosphere fluxes of CO2 across the Kalahari. Much of his work has focused on biological soil crusts and their influence over soil erodibility, moisture and nutrient content in drylands. Recently this has taken him to the Makgadikgadi salt pans in northern Botswana, where he has investigated biological and chemical uptake of carbon in hyper-saline and alkaline soils. His current research is quantifying spatial differences in soil respiration and microbial activity in the Kalahari, and determining the relative roles of fungi and bacteria in carbon cycles (The Leverhulme Trust, F/00 426/H). The links between soils, ecosystem services and rural livelihoods in rural southern African environments are a key aspect of his work (NERC NE/I003320/1).

Arbenigedd sy’n gysylltiedig â NDC y CU

Yn 2015, cytunodd gwladwriaethau sy’n aelodau'r Cenhedloedd Unedig ar 17 o Nodau Datblygu Cynaliadwy (NDC) byd-eang i ddod â thlodi i ben, diogelu’r blaned a sicrhau ffyniant i bawb. Mae gwaith y person hwn yn cyfrannu at y NDC canlynol:

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  • NDC 3 - Iechyd a Llesiant Da
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  • NDC 15 - Bywyd ar y Tir

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  • Global maps of soil temperature

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  • Soil biocrusts affect metabolic response to hydration on dunes in west Queensland, Australia

    Thomas, A. D., Elliott, D. R., Hardcastle, D., Strong, C. L., Bullard, J., Webster, R. & Lan, S., 01 Ion 2022, Yn: Geoderma. 405, 10 t., 115464.

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  • Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Topsoil Organic Carbon Concentration in Drylands Have Similar Effects at Regional and Global Scales

    Gaitán, J. J., Maestre, F. T., Bran, D. E., Buono, G. G., Dougill, A. J., Martinez, G. G., Ferrante, D., Guuroh, R. T., Lindstaeter, A., Massara, V., Thomas, A. D. & Oliva, G. E., 01 Tach 2019, Yn: Ecosystems. 22, 7, t. 1445-1456 12 t.

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  • Small-Scale Spatial Heterogeneity of Photosynthetic Fluorescence Associated with Biological Soil Crust Succession in the Tengger Desert, China

    Lan, S., Thomas, A., Tooth, S., Wu, L. & Hu, C., 01 Tach 2019, Yn: Microbial Ecology. 78, 4, t. 936-948 13 t.

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  • Surface Stability in Drylands is Influenced by Dispersal Strategy of Soil Bacteria

    Elliott, D. R., Thomas, A., Strong, C. & Bullard, J. E., 26 Rhag 2019, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 124, 11, t. 3403-3418 16 t.

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  • An assessment of the effects of forest reserve management on the livelihoods of forest fringe communities in the Atwima Mponua District of Ghana

    Sobeng, A. K., Agyemang-Duah, W., Thomas, A. & Appiah, J. O., 11 Gorff 2018, Yn: Forests, Trees and Livelihoods. 27, 3, t. 158-174 17 t.

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  • Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

    Ochoa-Hueso, R., Eldridge, D. J., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Soliveres, S., Bowker, M. A., Gross, N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Quero, J. L., García-Gómez, M., Valencia, E., Arredondo, T., Beinticinco, L., Bran, D., Cea, A., Coaguila, D., Dougill, A. J., Espinosa, C. I., Gaitán, J., Guuroh, R. T., Gusman, E., & 14 eraillGutiérrez, J. R., Hernández, R. M., Huber-Sannwald, E., Jeffries, T., Linstädter, A., Mau, R. L., Monerris, J., Prina, A., Pucheta, E., Stavi, I., Thomas, A., Zaddy, E., Singh, B. K. & Maestre, F. T., 31 Ion 2018, Yn: Journal of Ecology. 106, 1, t. 242-253 12 t.

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  • Temperature and aridity regulate spatial variability of soil multifunctionality in drylands across the globe

    Durán, J., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Dougill, A. J., Guuroh, R., Linstädter, A., Thomas, A. & Maestre, F. T., 01 Mai 2018, Yn: Ecology. 99, 5, t. 1184-1193 10 t.

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  • The influence of trees, shrubs, and grasses on microclimate, soil carbon, nitrogen, and CO2 efflux: Potential implications of shrub encroachment for Kalahari rangelands

    Thomas, A., Elliott, D. R., Dougill, A. J., Stringer, L. C., Hoon, S. R. & Sen, R., 01 Mai 2018, Yn: Land Degradation and Development. 29, 5, t. 1306-1316 11 t.

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  • Environmental correlates of species rank − abundance distributions in global drylands

    Ulrich, W., Soliveres, S., Thomas, A., Dougill, A. J. & Maestre, F. T., 30 Meh 2016, Yn: Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 20, t. 56-64 9 t.

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