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Chee Kong Yap is affiliated with Universiti Putra Malaysia in Malaysia and has a research focus centered within the field of Environmental Science. Their academic output includes a substantial number of publications, with a specialization in subfields such as Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Plant Science, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of environmental and ecological concerns, focusing heavily on contamination and toxicology. Key topics in their work include:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment

Their recent publications illustrate this scope, including:

  • "A Commentary on the Use of Bivalve Mollusks in Monitoring Metal Pollution Levels", 2021, published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Copper and Zinc Levels in Commercial Marine Fish from Setiu, East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia", 2022, published in Toxics

Chee Kong Yap collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Rosimah Nulit
  • Khalid Awadh Al-Mutairi
  • Wan Hee Cheng
  • Mohamad Saupi Ismail
  • AHMAD DWI SETYAWAN

They have contributed to publications in a variety of academic venues, with repeated appearances in journals such as:

  • International Journal of Hydrology
  • MOJ Biology and Medicine
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Biology
  • Sustainable Social Development

The research demonstrates a consistent focus on environmental contamination, toxicity assessment, and ecological impacts, with special attention to heavy metals and pollutants in aquatic ecosystems and associated biological effects. The work also extends into the study of water quality, microplastics pollution, and reproductive biology effects on aquatic species.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic impacts on the distribution and biodiversity of benthic macroinvertebrates and water quality of the Langat River, Peninsular Malaysia

    M.Z. Azrina;C.K. Yap;A. Rahim Ismail;A. Ismail

  • Anthropogenic impacts on heavy metal concentrations in the coastal sediments of Dumai, Indonesia.

    Bintal Amin;Bintal Amin;Ahmad Ismail;Aziz Arshad;Chee Kong Yap

  • Correlations between speciation of Cd, Cu, Pb And Zn in sediment and their concentrations in total soft tissue of green-lipped mussel Perna viridis from the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

    Chee Kong Yap;Ahmad Ismail;Soon Guan Tan;Hishamuddin Omar

  • Concentrations of Cu and Pb in the offshore and intertidal sediments of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

    C.K Yap;A Ismail;S.G Tan;H Omar

  • Background concentrations of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus) from Peninsular Malaysia.

    C.K Yap;A Ismail;S.G Tan

  • Can the shell of the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis from the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia be a potential biomonitoring material for Cd, Pb and Zn?

    C.K. Yap;A. Ismail;S.G. Tan;I. Abdul Rahim

  • Toxicities and tolerances of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in a primary producer (Isochrysis galbana) and in a primary consumer (Perna viridis)

    Chee Kong Yap;Ahmad Ismail;Husaini Omar;Soon Guan Tan

  • Heavy metal (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) concentrations in the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus) collected from some wild and aquacultural sites in the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia

    Chee Kong Yap;Ahmad Ismail;Soon Guan Tan

  • Accumulation, depuration and distribution of cadmium and zinc in the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus) under laboratory conditions

    C. K. Yap;A. Ismail;S. G. Tan;H. Omar

  • Potential human health risks from toxic metals via mangrove snail consumption and their ecological risk assessments in the habitat sediment from Peninsular Malaysia

    Wan Hee Cheng;Chee Kong Yap

  • Health risk assessments of heavy metal exposure via consumption of marine mussels collected from anthropogenic sites

    Chee Kong Yap;Wan Hee Cheng;Ali Karami;Ahmad Ismail

  • First report of bioaccumulation and bioconcentration of aliphatic hydrocarbons (AHs) and persistent organic pollutants (PAHs, PCBs and PCNs) and their effects on alcyonacea and scleractinian corals and their endosymbiotic algae from the Persian Gulf, Iran: Inter and intra-species differences.

    Ali Ranjbar Jafarabadi;Alireza Riyahi Bakhtiari;Mansour Aliabadian;Hédouin Laetitia

  • Distributions and compositional patterns of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their derivatives in three edible fishes from Kharg coral Island, Persian Gulf, Iran

    Ali Ranjbar Jafarabadi;Alireza Riyahi Bakhtiari;Zeinab Yaghoobi;Chee Kong Yap

  • Population dynamics of the green mussel Perna viridis from the high spat-fall coastal water of Malacca, Peninsular Malaysia

    S.M. Al-Barwani;A. Arshad;S.M. Nurul Amin;S.B. Japar

  • Cd and Zn concentrations in the straits of Malacca and intertidal sediments of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

    Chee Kong Yap;Ahmad Ismail;Soon Guan Tan

  • Assessment of Cu, Pb, and Zn contamination in sediment of north western Peninsular Malaysia by using sediment quality values and different geochemical indices.

    Chee Kong Yap;Bin Huan Pang

  • Prevention Is Better Than Cure: Persian Gulf Biodiversity Vulnerability to the Impacts of Desalination Plants

    Moslem Sharifinia;Zahra Afshari Bahmanbeigloo;Walker O. Smith;Walker O. Smith;Chee Kong Yap

  • Assessment of Different Soft Tissues of the Green-lipped Mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus) as Biomonitoring Agents of Pb: Field and Laboratory Studies

    C. K. Yap;A. Ismail;S. G. Tan;A. Rahim Ismail

  • Use of different soft tissues of Perna viridis a s biomonitors of bioavailability and contamination by heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb, Ni, and Zn) in a semi-enclosed intertidal water, the Johore Straits

    Chee Kong Yap;Ahmad Ismail;Franklin Berandah Edward;Soon Guan Tan

  • Risk assessment for the daily intake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the ingestion of cockle (Anadara granosa) and exposure to contaminated water and sediments along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

    Seiedeh Aghileh Mirsadeghi;Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria;Chee Kong Yap;Azadeh Shahbazi

  • Gastropod Assemblages as Indicators of Sediment Metal Contamination in Mangroves of Dumai, Sumatra, Indonesia

    Bintal Amin;Bintal Amin;Ahmad Ismail;Aziz Arshad;Chee Kong Yap

  • Interspecific Variation of Heavy Metal Concentrations in the Different Parts of Tropical Intertidal Bivalves

    Franklin Berandah Edward;Chee Kong Yap;Ahmad Ismail;Soon Guan Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria
Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria University of Malaya
Ahmad Fauzi Ismail
Ahmad Fauzi Ismail University of Technology Malaysia
Ahmad Zaharin Aris
Ahmad Zaharin Aris Universiti Putra Malaysia
Walker O. Smith
Walker O. Smith Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Stuart L. Simpson
Stuart L. Simpson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Frank A. P. C. Gobas
Frank A. P. C. Gobas Simon Fraser University
James M. Lazorchak
James M. Lazorchak Environmental Protection Agency
Mohd Talib Latif
Mohd Talib Latif National University of Malaysia

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