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Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
6817
World Ranking
7685
National Ranking
47

Overview

Christopher Anderson is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, exploring topics related to pollution, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, plant science, soil science, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses significant environmental issues, especially concerning heavy metals in the environment and mercury impact and mitigation studies. Other areas of research include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, geochemistry and elemental analysis, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and microbial fuel cells and bioremediation.

Frequently publishing in journals related to environmental science and pollution, Christopher Anderson has contributed notably to the following venues:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Bioremediation Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Quality

Their collaborative work includes coauthors who have frequently contributed across various projects. These frequent coauthors include Paramsothy Jeyakumar, Jianxu Wang, Xinbin Feng, Peter Bishop, and Dumsane Themba Matse.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Christopher Anderson highlight investigations into mercury behavior in soil environments and plant uptake, as well as the interaction of cadmium with plant roots. Notable publications include:

  • Mobilization, Methylation, and Demethylation of Mercury in a Paddy Soil Under Systematic Redox Changes, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nanoactivated Carbon Reduces Mercury Mobility and Uptake by Oryza sativa L: Mechanistic Investigation Using Spectroscopic and Microscopic Techniques, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Effect of soil cadmium on root organic acid secretion by forage crops, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Screening of native low mercury accumulation crops in a mercury-polluted mining region: Agricultural planning to manage mercury risk in farming communities, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Mercury resistance and plant growth promoting traits of endophytic bacteria isolated from mercury-contaminated soil, 2021, Bioremediation Journal

Best Publications

  • Remediation of mercury contaminated sites - A review

    Jianxu Wang;Xinbin Feng;Christopher W.N. Anderson;Ying Xing

  • Phytomining for nickel, thallium and gold

    C.W.N Anderson;R.R Brooks;A Chiarucci;C.J LaCoste

  • Agromining: farming for metals in the future?

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Roger D. Reeves;Rufus L. Chaney

  • Atmospheric mercury inputs in montane soils increase with elevation: evidence from mercury isotope signatures

    Hua Zhang;Run-sheng Yin;Xin-bin Feng;Jonas Sommar

  • Harvesting a crop of gold in plants

    Christopher W. N. Anderson;Robert R. Brooks;Robert B. Stewart;Robyn Simcock

  • Investigating the toxicity, uptake, nanoparticle formation and genetic response of plants to gold.

    Andrew F. Taylor;Elizabeth L. Rylott;Christopher W. N. Anderson;Neil C. Bruce

  • Localization and speciation of mercury in brown rice with implications for pan-Asian public health.

    Bo Meng;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Christopher W. N. Anderson

  • A field demonstration of gold phytoextraction technology

    Christopher Anderson;Fabio Moreno;John Meech

  • Phytoextraction: Where’s the action?

    B.H. Robinson;C.W.N. Anderson;N.M. Dickinson

  • Phytofiltration of mercury-contaminated water Volatilisation and plant-accumulation aspects

    Fabio N. Moreno;Christopher W.N. Anderson;Robert B. Stewart;Brett H. Robinson

  • Mercury volatilisation and phytoextraction from base-metal mine tailings

    Fabio N. Moreno;Chris W.N. Anderson;Robert B. Stewart;Brett H. Robinson

  • Mercury methylation in rice paddies and its possible controlling factors in the Hg mining area, Guizhou province, Southwest China.

    Lei Zhao;Guangle Qiu;Christopher W.N. Anderson;Bo Meng

  • Induced plant uptake and transport of mercury in the presence of sulphur-containing ligands and humic acid

    Fabio N. Moreno;Christopher W. N. Anderson;Robert B. Stewart;Brett H. Robinson

  • Assessment of environmental mercury discharge at a four-year-old artisanal gold mining area on Lombok Island, Indonesia

    Baiq Dewi Krisnayanti;Christopher W. N. Anderson;Christopher W. N. Anderson;Wani Hadi Utomo;Wani Hadi Utomo;Xinbin Feng;Xinbin Feng

  • Ammonium thiosulphate enhanced phytoextraction from mercury contaminated soil – Results from a greenhouse study

    Jianxu Wang;Xinbin Feng;Christopher W.N. Anderson;Guangle Qiu

  • Measuring what works in health care

    Christopher Anderson

  • Phytoremediation of Mercury-Contaminated Mine Tailings by Induced Plant-Mercury Accumulation

    Fabio N. Moreno;Chris W. N. Anderson;Robert B. Stewart;Brett H. Robinson

  • Nickel and cobalt phytoextraction by the hyperaccumulator Berkheya coddii: implications for polymetallic phytomining and phytoremediation.

    S. M. Keeling;R. B. Stewart;C. W. N. Anderson;B. H. Robinson

  • Prediction of Methyl Mercury Uptake by Rice Plants (Oryza sativa L.) Using the Diffusive Gradient in Thin Films Technique

    Jinling Liu;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Christopher W N Anderson

  • Mercury methylation in paddy soil: source and distribution of mercury species at a Hg mining area, Guizhou Province, China

    Lei Zhao;Lei Zhao;Christopher W. N Anderson;Guangle Qiu;Bo Meng

  • Response of plant and soil microbes to biochar amendment of an arsenic-contaminated soil

    S.J. Gregory;C.W.N. Anderson;M. Camps Arbestain;M.T. McManus

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Brett Robinson
Brett Robinson University of Canterbury
Robert B. Stewart
Robert B. Stewart Massey University
Guangle Qiu
Guangle Qiu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sabry M. Shaheen
Sabry M. Shaheen Kafrelsheikh University
Robert R. Brooks
Robert R. Brooks Massey University
Paripurnanda Loganathan
Paripurnanda Loganathan University of Technology Sydney
Ronald G. McLaren
Ronald G. McLaren Canterbury of New Zealand
Andrew J. Hunt
Andrew J. Hunt Khon Kaen University
M. J. Hedley
M. J. Hedley Massey University

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