Edmondson, Jill, Dr

Dr Jill Edmondson

School of Biosciences

Senior Lecturer

NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow

j.edmondson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0065

E208, Alfred Denny Building

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Dr Jill Edmondson
School of Biosciences
E208
Alfred Denny Building
Western Bank
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S10 2TN

Profile

2022 - present NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow
2021 - present Senior Lecturer School of Biosciences
2016 - 2021 EPSRC Living with Environmental Change Fellow

Research interests

My interdisciplinary research aims to address the challenge of improving the sustainability and resilience of ecosystems, with a focus on urban and agricultural systems. I have a particular interest in the interaction between soils, plants and the ecosystem services they provide to a growing global population.

Urban horticulture

My research addresses the current and future potential of urban horticulture to make a contribution to local and national food security. This includes growing at a household level in gardens and allotments and using controlled environment agricultural systems in grey infrastructure. I am also interested in the ecosystem service co-benefits of growing food, from soil quality to health and wellbeing. As part of this research I run a national-scale citizen science project called Measure Your Harvest (MYHarvest.org.uk), that works people to collect long-term home grown crop yield data. My research also addresses the bioavailability of urban soil pollutants to fruit and vegetable crops and potential risks to human health. I work closely with local authorities and NGOs to deliver this applied research.

Soil and vegetation carbon budgeting

I have developed methods for soil carbon budgeting in complex urban ecosystems in both greenspaces and beneath greyspaces. I am really interested in the role of black carbon in soil carbon storage and sequestration.

Understanding the urban forest

Trees have been demonstrated to contribute disproportionately to ecosystem service provision in cities and towns but we have less understanding of how the unique combination of pressures in the urban environment, e.g. pollution and encasement in greyspace, affect their health and resilience to future climate change. My research addresses both the role of urban trees in provision of ecosystem services e.g. heat island mitigation and carbon storage, and the effects of urban pressures on tree health and resilience at a species specific scale and the consequences for ecosystem service provision.

Publications

Journal articles

Bate-Weldon M, Edmondson J & Field K (2024) . iScience(110580).
Blackman R, Edmondson J, Densley-Tingley D & Croft H (2024) .
De-Ville S, Edmondson J, Green D, Stirling R, Dawson R & Stovin V (2024) . Water Research, 252, 121182-121182.
Kumar P, Debele S, Khalili S, Halios CH, Sahani J, Aghamohammadi N, de Fatima Andrade M, Athanassiadou M, Bhui K, Calvillo N , Cao S-J et al (2024) . The Innovation, 100588-100588.
Edmondson JL (2024) . Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(2), 100011-100011.
Gulyas BZ & Edmondson JL (2023) . PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET.
Peng Z, Edmondson J, Stirling R, Green D, Dawson R, De-Ville S & Stovin V (2023) . Urban Water Journal, 20(4), 477-486.
Scharenbroch BC, Trammell TL, Paltseva A, Livesley SJ & Edmondson J (2022) . Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10.
Crispo M, Dobson MC, Blevins RS, Meredith W, Lake JA & Edmondson JL (2021) . Environmental Pollution.
Crispo M, Cameron DD, Meredith W, Eveleigh A, Ladommatos N, Mašek O & Edmondson JL (2021) . Science of The Total Environment, 149659-149659.
Dobson MC, Crispo M, Blevins RS, Warren PH & Edmondson JL (2021) . Science of The Total Environment, 777, 146199-146199.
Dobson MC, Warren PH & Edmondson JL (2021) . Sustainability, 13(5).
Gulyas BZ & Edmondson JL (2021) . Sustainability, 13(3).
Dobson MC, Reynolds C, Warren PH & Edmondson JL (2020) . British Food Journal, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print).
Dobson MC, Edmondson JL & Warren PH (2020) . Landscape and Urban Planning, 199, 103803-103803.
Payne RJ, Campbell C, Stevens CJ, Pakeman RJ, Ross LC, Britton AJ, Mitchell RJ, Jones L, Field C, Caporn SJM , Carroll J et al (2020) . Atmospheric Environment, 239, 117478-117478.
Grafius DR, Edmondson JL, Norton BA, Clark R, Mears M, Leake JR, Corstanje R, Harris JA & Warren PH (2020) . Scientific Reports, 10(1).
Edmondson J, Cunningham H, Densley Tingley D, Dobson M, Grafius D, Leake J, McHugh N, Nickles J, Phoenix G, Ryan A , Stovin V et al (2020) . Nature Food, 1, 155-159.
Edmondson JL, Childs DZ, Dobson MC, Gaston KJ, Warren PH & Leake JR (2020) . Science of The Total Environment, 705.
Grafius DR, Hall S, McHugh N & Edmondson JL (2019) . GCB Bioenergy.
Payne RJ, Campbell C, Britton AJ, Mitchell RJ, Pakeman RJ, Jones L, Ross LC, Stevens CJ, Field C, Caporn SJM , Carroll J et al (2019) . Environmental Pollution, 247, 319-331.
Holden J, Grayson RP, Berdeni D, Bird S, Chapman PJ, Firbank L, Edmondson JL, Helgasson T, Hodson ME, Hunt SFP , Jones DT et al (2019) . Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 273, 1-12.
Edmondson JL, Blevins S, Cunningham H, Dobson M, Leake J & Grafius D (2019) . Plants, People, Plant.
Edmondson JL, Stott I, Davies ZG, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2016) . Scientific Reports, 6.
Allinson D, Irvine KN, Edmondson JL, Tiwary A, Hill G, Morris J, Bell M, Davies ZG, Firth SK, Fisher J , Gaston KJ et al (2016) . Applied Energy, 164, 871-881.
Mchugh N, Edmondson JL, Gaston KJ, Leake JR & O'Sullivan OS (2015) . Journal of Applied Ecology, 52(5), 1237-1245.
Edmondson JL, Stott I, Potter J, Lopez-Capel E, Manning DAC, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2015) . Environmental Science & Technology, 49(14), 8339-8346.
Edmondson JL, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2015) . Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13(5), 241-241.
Edmondson JL, Leake JR, Davies ZG & Gaston KJ (2014) . Journal of Applied Ecology.
Payne RJ, Caporn SJM, Field CD, Carroll JA, Edmondson JL, Britton A & Dise NB (2014) . Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 225(7).
Edmondson JL, Davies ZG, McCormack SA, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2014) . Sci Total Environ, 472, 444-453.
Edmondson JL, O'Sullivan OS, Inger R, Potter J, McHugh N, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2014) . PLoS One, 9(7), e101872.
Davies ZG, Dallimer M, Edmondson JL, Leake JR & Gaston KJ (2013) Identifying potential sources of variability between vegetation carbon storage estimates for urban areas.. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 183, 133-142.
Payne RJ, Caporn SJM, Stevens CJ, Carroll JA, Edmondson JL, Gowing DJ & Dise NB (2013) . Ecological Indicators, 26, 1-4.
Edmondson JL, Terribile E, Price EAC, Carroll JA & Caporn SJM (2013) The legacy of nitrogen pollution in heather moorlands: Ecosystem response to simulated decline in nitrogen deposition over seven years. Science of the Total Environment, 444, 138-144.
Davies ZG, Dallimer M, Edmondson JL, Leake JR & Gaston KJ (2013) . Environmental Pollution, 183, 133-142.
Gaston KJ, Ávila-Jiménez ML & Edmondson JL (2013) . Journal of Applied Ecology.
Edmondson JL, Davies ZG, McHugh N, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2012) . Sci Rep, 2, 963.
Edmondson JL, Davies ZG, McCormack SA, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2011) . Biol Lett, 7(5), 771-774.
Davies ZG, Edmondson JL, Heinemeyer A, Leake JR & Gaston KJ (2011) . Journal of Applied Ecology, 48(5), 1125-1134.
Renforth P, Edmondson J, Leake JR, Gaston KJ & Manning DAC (2011) . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning, 164(2), 121-128.
Davies ZG, Edmondson JL, Heinemeyer A, Leake JR & Gaston KJ (2011) Mapping an urban ecosystem service: Quantifying above-ground carbon storage at a city-wide scale. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Edmondson JL, Carroll JA, Price EAC & Caporn SJM (2010) . Sci Total Environ, 408(24), 6202-6209.
Edmondson JL () . PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET.
Gulyas BZ, Caton SJ & Edmondson JL () . BMC Public Health, 24(1).
Ellis EE, Edmondson JL, Maher KH, Hipperson H & Campbell SA () . Ecology Letters.
De-Ville S, Green D, Edmondson J, Stirling R, Dawson R & Stovin V () . Water, 13(15), 2014-2014.

Chapters

McHugh N, Edmondson JL, Gaston KJ, Leake JR & O’sullivan OS (2016) Modelling Short-Rotation Coppice and Tree Planting for Urban Carbon Management-A Citywide Analysis, Urban Forests: Ecosystem Services and Management (pp. 37-58).
Edmondson JL, Davies ZG, Gaston KJ & Leake JR (2016) , Urban Horticulture: Ecology, Landscape, and Agriculture (pp. 55-78).

Other

Cunningham ST, Bryant RG, Khan MS, Caine RS, Edmondson J, Absalom ECP, Turner A, Blackman R & Croft H (2024) .

Teaching activities

Level 1

APS11008 (Climate Change and Sustainability).

Level 2

APS21005 (The Urban Ecosystems field course)
BIS222 (Ecosystems and Sustainability in a Changing World) and run a six-week plant-soil practical.

Level 3

APS358 (Topics in Modern Ecology) is designed to engage students with some of the big questions in modern ecology by studying recent literature.
Supervision for level 3 literature reviews.
Supervision for MBiolSci, MEnvSci, MSc, and MRes student literature reviews and research projects.

Professional activities and memberships

Editor at Plants, People, Planet
Editor at Soil

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