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David B. Nedwell is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions mainly span Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Pollution.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Recent published papers include the following:

  • "Mineralization and nitrification: Archaea dominate ammonia-oxidising communities in grassland soils," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Denitrifier Still Has the Important Role in Nitrate Reduction to N2 Although It is Not the Predominant Population in the Estuarine Bacterial Community of Nitrate Reducing Bacteria," 2024, HAYATI Journal of Biosciences

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with David B. Nedwell include:

  • Dave R. Clark
  • Boyd A. McKew
  • Liang Dong
  • Garwai Leung
  • Alex J. Dumbrell

Publications have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • HAYATI Journal of Biosciences

Best Publications

  • Effect of low temperature on microbial growth: lowered affinity for substrates limits growth at low temperature

    D.B Nedwell

  • Environmental costs of freshwater eutrophication in England and Wales.

    Jules N. Pretty;Christopher F. Mason;David B. Nedwell;Rachel E. Hine

  • Diversity and abundance of nitrate reductase genes (narG and napA), nitrite reductase genes (nirS and nrfA), and their transcripts in estuarine sediments.

    Cindy J. Smith;David B. Nedwell;Liang F. Dong;A. Mark Osborn;A. Mark Osborn

  • Identification of active methylotroph populations in an acidic forest soil by stable-isotope probing.

    Stefan Radajewski;Gordon Webster;David S. Reay;Samantha A. Morris

  • Changes in Benthic Denitrification, Nitrate Ammonification, and Anammox Process Rates and Nitrate and Nitrite Reductase Gene Abundances along an Estuarine Nutrient Gradient (the Colne Estuary, United Kingdom)

    Liang F. Dong;Cindy J. Smith;Cindy J. Smith;Sokratis Papaspyrou;Andrew Stott

  • Inhibition of methanogenesis by sulphate reducing bacteria competing for transferred hydrogen.

    Jeremy W. Abram;David B. Nedwell

  • Detection and diversity of expressed denitrification genes in estuarine sediments after reverse transcription-PCR amplification from mRNA.

    Balbina Nogales;Kenneth N. Timmis;David B. Nedwell;A. Mark Osborn

  • Phylogenetic diversity of Archaea in sediment samples from a coastal salt marsh.

    M A Munson;D B Nedwell;T M Embley

  • Evaluation of quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based approaches for determining gene copy and gene transcript numbers in environmental samples.

    Cindy J. Smith;David B. Nedwell;Liang F. Dong;A. Mark Osborn;A. Mark Osborn

  • Temperature dependence of inorganic nitrogen uptake: Reduced affinity for nitrate at suboptimal temperatures in both algae and bacteria

    David S. Reay;David B. Nedwell;Julian Priddle;J. Cynan Ellis-Evans

  • Dissimilatory reduction of nitrate to ammonium, not denitrification or anammox, dominates benthic nitrate reduction in tropical estuaries

    Liang F. Dong;Milika Naqasima Sobey;Milika Naqasima Sobey;Cindy J. Smith;Iman Rusmana

  • Rapid Extraction of DNA and rRNA from Sediments by a Novel Hydroxyapatite Spin-Column Method.

    K J Purdy;T M Embley;S Takii;D B Nedwell

  • High nitrate, muddy estuaries as nitrogen sinks:the nitrogen budget of the River Colne estuary (United Kingdom)

    Ogilvie B;Nedwell Db;Harrison Rm;Robinson A

  • Methane emission and methane oxidation in land-fill cover soil

    Hilary A. Jones;David B. Nedwell

  • Detection and enumeration of sulphate-reducing bacteria in estuarine sediments by competitive PCR

    R. Kondo;D.B. Nedwell;K.J. Purdy;S. da Silva

  • Analysis of the Sulfate-Reducing Bacterial and Methanogenic Archaeal Populations in Contrasting Antarctic Sediments

    K. J. Purdy;D. B. Nedwell;T. M. Embley

  • Nutrients in Estuaries

    D.B. Nedwell;T.D. Jickells;M. Trimmer;R. Sanders

  • Denitrification in sediments of the River Colne estuary, England

    L. F. Dong;D. C. O. Thornton;D. B. Nedwell;G. J. C. Underwood

  • CH4 production, oxidation and emission in a U.K. ombrotrophic peat bog: Influence of SO42− from acid rain

    David B. Nedwell;Andrea Watson

  • Protocol handbook for NICE - Nitrogen Cycling in Estuaries: a project under the EU research programme: Marine Science and Technology (MAST III)

    T. Dalsgaard;L. P. Nielsen;V. Brotas;P. Viaroli

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Reay
David S. Reay University of Edinburgh
Graham J. C. Underwood
Graham J. C. Underwood University of Essex
A. Mark Osborn
A. Mark Osborn RMIT University
Alex J. Dumbrell
Alex J. Dumbrell University of Essex
Mark Trimmer
Mark Trimmer Queen Mary University of London
Ibrahim M. Banat
Ibrahim M. Banat University of Ulster
Niall P. McNamara
Niall P. McNamara UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
T. Martin Embley
T. Martin Embley Newcastle University
Andrew S. Ball
Andrew S. Ball RMIT University
Philip Ineson
Philip Ineson University of York

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