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Colin D. Brown is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and has a research focus spanning environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work addresses a variety of topics primarily related to pollution, insect science, ecology, water science and technology, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Brown has contributed significantly to the study of pesticides and herbicides in the environment, insect and pesticide research, and environmental toxicology. Their research also covers hydrology and watershed management, sediment transport processes, and insect-plant interactions and control. Key topics in their work include:

  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity

Colin D. Brown's research has been published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biological Conservation
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • Fire

Their recent papers include:

  • Is water quality in British rivers "better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution"? (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • From seeds to plasma: Confirmed exposure of multiple farmland bird species to clothianidin during sowing of winter cereals (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Nature based measures increase freshwater biodiversity in agricultural catchments (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • High prevalence of the neonicotinoid clothianidin in liver and plasma samples collected from gamebirds during autumn sowing (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Comparison of technical and systems-based approaches to managing pesticide contamination in surface water catchments (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)

Brown's research collaborations include multiple publications with frequent co-authors such as:

  • Roman Ashauer
  • Jeremy Biggs
  • Chris Stoate
  • John Szczur
  • Mark E. Hodson

Their body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach encompassing environmental monitoring, pesticide impact studies, and biodiversity conservation within agricultural and freshwater ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Factors influencing degradation of pesticides in soil.

    Melanie Kah;Sabine Beulke;Colin D Brown

  • Adsorption of Ionisable Pesticides in Soils

    M. Kah;C. D. Brown

  • LogD: lipophilicity for ionisable compounds.

    Melanie Kah;Colin D. Brown

  • Sources of uncertainty in pesticide fate modelling.

    Igor G Dubus;Colin D Brown;Sabine Beulke

  • A European test of pesticide-leaching models: methodology and major recommendations

    M. Vanclooster;J.J.T.I. Boesten;M. Trevisan;C.D. Brown

  • Adsorption and degradation of the weak acid mesotrione in soil and environmental fate implications.

    J.S. Dyson;S. Beulke;C. D. Brown;M. C. G. Lane

  • Pesticide transport via sub-surface drains in Europe.

    Colin D. Brown;Wendy van Beinum

  • Pesticides in rainfall in Europe.

    I.G Dubus;J.M Hollis;C.D Brown

  • Evaluation of methods to derive pesticide degradation parameters for regulatory modelling

    Sabine Beulke;Colin D. Brown

  • Development of a framework based on an ecosystem services approach for deriving specific protection goals for environmental risk assessment of pesticides

    Karin M. Nienstedt;Theo C. M. Brock;Joke van Wensem;Mark Montforts

  • New ecotoxicological model to simulate survival of aquatic invertebrates after exposure to fluctuating and sequential pulses of pesticides.

    Roman Ashauer;and Alistair B. A. Boxall;Colin D. Brown

  • Prediction of the adsorption of ionizable pesticides in soils.

    Melanie Kah;Colin D. Brown

  • Predicting effects on aquatic organisms from fluctuating or pulsed exposure to pesticides

    Roman Ashauer;Roman Ashauer;Alistair Boxall;Alistair Boxall;Colin Brown;Colin Brown

  • Small Water Bodies in Great Britain and Ireland: Ecosystem function, human-generated degradation, and options for restorative action.

    William D. Riley;Edward C.E. Potter;Jeremy Biggs;Adrian L. Collins

  • Sensitivity analyses for four pesticide leaching models

    Igor G Dubus;Colin D Brown;Sabine Beulke

  • Sensitivity and first-step uncertainty analyses for the preferential flow model MACRO.

    Igor G. Dubus;Colin D. Brown

  • Adsorption and degradation of four acidic herbicides in soils from southern Spain

    Jaime Villaverde;Melanie Kah;Colin D Brown;Colin D Brown

  • Simulation of Pesticide Persistence in the Field on the Basis of Laboratory Data—A Review

    Sabine Beulke;Igor G. Dubus;Colin D. Brown;Bernhard Gottesbüren

  • The multifunctional roles of vegetated strips around and within agricultural fields

    Neal Haddaway;Neal Haddaway;Colin David Brown;Jacqui Eales;Sönke Eggers

  • Modeling combined effects of pulsed exposure to carbaryl and chlorpyrifos on Gammarus pulex.

    Roman Ashauer;and Alistair B. A. Boxall;Colin D. Brown

  • Higher-tier laboratory methods for assessing the aquatic toxicity of pesticides.

    Alistair B A Boxall;Colin D Brown;Katie L Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Trevisan
Marco Trevisan Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Roman Ashauer
Roman Ashauer University of York
Jeremy Biggs
Jeremy Biggs Oxford Brookes University
Alistair B.A. Boxall
Alistair B.A. Boxall University of York
Lorraine Maltby
Lorraine Maltby University of Sheffield
Peter R. Thorne
Peter R. Thorne University of Auckland
Fabrice G. Renaud
Fabrice G. Renaud University of Glasgow
Leo Posthuma
Leo Posthuma Radboud University
Matthias Liess
Matthias Liess Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Chris L. Fryer
Chris L. Fryer Los Alamos National Laboratory

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