2026 Brian A. Branfireun: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	43	7170	6891	315	295	119	6382

Overview

Brian A. Branfireun is an environmental scientist affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the subfields of health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, pollution, parasitology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work explores major topics related to mercury impact and mitigation studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, marine animal studies overview, isotope analysis in ecology, peatlands and wetlands ecology, avian ecology and behavior, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Brian A. Branfireun has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication journals include:

The Science of The Total Environment
Ecotoxicology
Environmental Research
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Aquatic Sciences

Notable recent papers include:

Mercury cycling in freshwater systems - An updated conceptual model (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations (2021), Nature
Mercury biogeochemical cycling: A synthesis of recent scientific advances (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
Feathers accurately reflect blood mercury at time of feather growth in a songbird (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
Responses of oribatid mites to warming in boreal peatlands depend on fen type (2021), Pedobiologia

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors. Regular collaborators include Heidi K. Swanson, Zoë Lindo, Mehdi Moslemi-Aqdam, George C. Low, and Mike Low.

Brian A. Branfireun has contributed to book publications, including a recent volume titled Women in Biogeochemical Dynamics Research: 2022, published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

Whole-ecosystem study shows rapid fish-mercury response to changes in mercury deposition

Reed C. Harris;John W. M. Rudd;Marc Amyot;Christopher L. Babiarz

539
Citations
Recovery of Mercury-Contaminated Fisheries

John Munthe;R. A (Drew) Bodaly;Brian A. Branfireun;Charles T. Driscoll

396
Citations
Climate change drives a shift in peatland ecosystem plant community: Implications for ecosystem function and stability

Catherine M. Dieleman;Brian A. Branfireun;James W. McLaughlin;Zoë Lindo

311
Citations
In situ sulphate stimulation of mercury methylation in a boreal peatland: Toward a link between acid rain and methylmercury contamination in remote environments

Brian A. Branfireun;Nigel T. Roulet;Carol. A. Kelly;John W. M. Rudd

255
Citations
Environmental controls on the speciation and distribution of mercury in coastal sediments

Elsie M. Sunderland;Frank A.P.C. Gobas;Brian A. Branfireun;Andrew Heyes

222
Citations
Spatial characteristics of net methylmercury production hot spots in peatlands

Carl P.J. Mitchell;Brian A. Branfireun;Randall K. Kolka

216
Citations
The hydrology and methylmercury dynamics of a Precambrian shield headwater peatland

Brian A. Branfireun;Andrew Heyes;Nigel T. Roulet

206
Citations
Speciation and bioavailability of mercury in well-mixed estuarine sediments

Elsie M. Sunderland;Elsie M. Sunderland;Frank A.P.C. Gobas;Andrew Heyes;Brian A. Branfireun

183
Citations
Assessing sulfate and carbon controls on net methylmercury production in peatlands: An in situ mesocosm approach

Carl P.J. Mitchell;Brian A. Branfireun;Randall K. Kolka

140
Citations
FLOW REVERSALS IN PEATLANDS INFLUENCED BY LOCAL GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS

K. J. Devito;J. M. Waddington;B. A. Branfireun

136
Citations
Stable Isotopes Reveal Widespread Anaerobic Methane Oxidation Across Latitude and Peatland Type

Varun Gupta;Kurt A. Smemo;Joseph B. Yavitt;David Fowle

135
Citations
Mercury dynamics of a temperate forested wetland

M.E Galloway;B.A Branfireun

133
Citations
Advances in Canadian wetland hydrology, 1999–2003

Jonathan S. Price;Brian A. Branfireun;J. Michael Waddington;Kevin J. Devito

132
Citations
Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations

Unknown

129
Citations
Rapidly increasing methyl mercury in endangered ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) feathers over a 130 year record.

Alexander L. Bond;Alexander L. Bond;Keith A. Hobson;Brian A. Branfireun

115
Citations
A Survey of Mercury in Air and Precipitation across Canada: Patterns and Trends

Amanda S. Cole;Alexandra Steffen;Chris S. Eckley;Julie Narayan

112
Citations
The baseflow and storm flow hydrology of a precambrian shield headwater peatland

Brian A. Branfireun;Nigel T. Roulet

109
Citations
Mercury cycling in freshwater systems - An updated conceptual model.

Brian A. Branfireun;Claudia Cosio;Alexandre J. Poulain;Gunnhild Riise

107
Citations
Percentage of methylmercury in the muscle tissue of freshwater fish varies with body size and age and among species.

Gretchen L. Lescord;Thomas A. Johnston;Brian A. Branfireun;John M. Gunn

102
Citations
Speciation and transport of newly deposited mercury in a boreal forest wetland: A stable mercury isotope approach

B. A. Branfireun;D. P. Krabbenhoft;H. Hintelmann;R. J. Hunt

98
Citations
Mercury cycling in boreal ecosystems: The long-term effect of acid rain constituents on peatland pore water methylmercury concentrations

Brian A. Branfireun;Kevin Bishop;Nigel T. Roulet;Gunnar Granberg

81
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl P. J. Mitchell University of Toronto

Zoë Lindo University of Western Ontario

Randall K. Kolka US Forest Service

Nigel T. Roulet McGill University

Cynthia C. Gilmour Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Daniel R. Engstrom Science Museum of Minnesota

John M. Gunn Laurentian University

Elsie M. Sunderland Harvard University

James P. Hurley University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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