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David B. Buchwalter is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a specific emphasis on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography. Within these fields, their work addresses physiological and biochemical adaptations, fish ecology and management studies, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, neurobiology and insect physiology research, as well as aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior and aquaculture nutrition and growth.

They have contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Energetics as a lens to understanding aquatic insect's responses to changing temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity regimes" (2020) published in Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • "It's all about the fluxes: Temperature influences ion transport and toxicity in aquatic insects" (2020) published in Aquatic Toxicology
  • "Periphyton enhances arsenic release and methylation at the soil-water interface of paddy soils" (2020) published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Physiological plasticity and acclimatory responses to salinity stress are ion-specific in the mayfly, Neocloeon triangulifer" (2021) published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Transcriptomic and life history responses of the mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer to chronic diel thermal challenge" (2020) published in Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Buchwalter include:

  • Jamie K. Cochran
  • Sarah E. Orr
  • Dereje D. Jima
  • David H. Funk
  • Leonard B. Collins

Their work has been published in a number of prominent venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Aquatic Toxicology
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Best Publications

  • Saving freshwater from salts

    M. Cañedo-Argüelles;M. Cañedo-Argüelles;C. P. Hawkins;B. J. Kefford;R. B. Schäfer

  • Differential exposure, duration, and sensitivity of unionoidean bivalve life stages to environmental contaminants

    W. Gregory Cope;Robert B. Bringolf;David B. Buchwalter;Teresa J. Newton

  • Aquatic insect ecophysiological traits reveal phylogenetically based differences in dissolved cadmium susceptibility

    David B. Buchwalter;Daniel J. Cain;Caitrin A. Martin;Lingtian Xie

  • Framework for traits‐based assessment in ecotoxicology

    Mascha N Rubach;Roman Ashauer;David B Buchwalter;HJ De Lange

  • Salinized rivers: degraded systems or new habitats for salt-tolerant faunas?

    Ben J. Kefford;David Buchwalter;Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles;Jenny Davis

  • Selenium bioaccumulation and maternal transfer in the mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer in a life-cycle, periphyton-biofilm trophic assay.

    Justin M. Conley;David H. Funk;David B. Buchwalter

  • Differences in dissolved cadmium and zinc uptake among stream insects: mechanistic explanations.

    David B. Buchwalter;Samuel N. Luoma

  • Cant take the heat: Temperature-enhanced toxicity in the mayfly Isonychia bicolor exposed to the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid

    A.A. Camp;D.B. Buchwalter

  • Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of selenium

    Robin Stewart;Martin Grosell;David B. Buchwalter;Nicholas S. Fisher

  • Integrative behavioral ecotoxicology: bringing together fields to establish new insight to behavioral ecology, toxicology, and conservation

    Elizabeth K. Peterson;David B. Buchwalter;Jacob L. Kerby;Matthew K. LeFauve

  • Use of reconstituted waters to evaluate effects of elevated major ions associated with mountaintop coal mining on freshwater invertebrates

    James L. Kunz;Justin M. Conley;David B. Buchwalter;Teresa J. Norberg-King

  • Using Biodynamic Models to Reconcile Differences Between Laboratory Toxicity Tests and Field Biomonitoring with Aquatic Insects

    David B. Buchwalter;Daniel J. Cain;William H. Clements;Samuel N. Luoma

  • Trophic transfer of Cd from natural periphyton to the grazing mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer in a life cycle test.

    Lingtian Xie;David H. Funk;David B. Buchwalter

  • Temperature influences on water permeability and chlorpyrifos uptake in aquatic insects with differing respiratory strategies

    David B. Buchwalter;Jeffrey J. Jenkins;Lawrence R. Curtis

  • Fetax interlaboratory validation study: Phase II testing

    Angela M. Gaudet-Hull;James R. Rayburn;John A. Bantle;Dennis T. Burton

  • Respiratory strategy is a major determinant of [3H]water and [14C]chlorpyrifos uptake in aquatic insects

    D B Buchwalter;J J Jenkins;L R Curtis

  • Cadmium exposure route affects antioxidant responses in the mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer

    Lingtian Xie;David B. Buchwalter

  • Roles of uptake, biotransformation, and target site sensitivity in determining the differential toxicity of chlorpyrifos to second to fourth instar Chironomous riparius (Meigen)

    D.B. Buchwalter;J.F. Sandahl;J.J. Jenkins;L.R. Curtis

  • Dietary (periphyton) and aqueous Zn bioaccumulation dynamics in the mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer

    K. S. Kim;D. H. Funk;D. B. Buchwalter

  • Four reasons why traditional metal toxicity testing with aquatic insects is irrelevant.

    Monica D. Poteat;David B. Buchwalter

  • Cadmium exposure increases the risk of juvenile obesity: a human and zebrafish comparative study.

    Adrian J. Green;Cathrine Hoyo;Carolyn J. Mattingly;Yiwen Luo

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel N. Luoma
Samuel N. Luoma University of California, Davis
Bernard W. Sweeney
Bernard W. Sweeney Stroud Water Research Center
James M. Lazorchak
James M. Lazorchak Environmental Protection Agency
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles University of Barcelona
Ben J. Kefford
Ben J. Kefford University of Canberra
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland University of California, Riverside
Nicholas S. Fisher
Nicholas S. Fisher Stony Brook University
Wen-Xiong Wang
Wen-Xiong Wang City University of Hong Kong
Christopher G. Ingersoll
Christopher G. Ingersoll United States Geological Survey
Sandra Brucet
Sandra Brucet Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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