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David R. Lapen

David R. Lapen

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
9754
World Ranking
3897
National Ranking
164

Overview

David R. Lapen is affiliated with the Government of Canada and focuses on research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research addresses a variety of topics with notable emphasis on mosquito-borne diseases and control, microplastics and plastic pollution, viral infections and vectors, species distribution and climate change, hydrology and watershed management studies, soil and unsaturated flow, and recycling and waste management techniques.

Recent publications by David R. Lapen include:

  • Key information needs to move from knowledge to action for biodiversity conservation in Canada (2021) in Biological Conservation
  • Subsoiling and conversion to conservation tillage enriched nitrogen cycling bacterial communities in sandy soils under long-term maize monoculture (2021) in Soil and Tillage Research
  • Using Artificial Neural Networks and Remotely Sensed Data to Evaluate the Relative Importance of Variables for Prediction of Within-Field Corn and Soybean Yields (2020) in Remote Sensing
  • Evaluating landscape influences on hydrologic behavior with a fully-integrated groundwater - surface water model (2021) in Journal of Hydrology
  • How many microplastic particles are present in Canadian biosolids? (2023) in Journal of Environmental Quality

Coauthors frequently collaborating with David R. Lapen include Antoinette Ludwig, Steven K. Frey, Scott Wilson, Jennifer F. Provencher, and Niloofar Alavi.

David R. Lapen has published extensively in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Scientific Reports, Journal of Medical Entomology, The Science of The Total Environment, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Assessment of RapidEye vegetation indices for estimation of leaf area index and biomass in corn and soybean crops

    Angela Kross;Heather McNairn;David Lapen;Mark Sunohara

  • Seasonal relationships among indicator bacteria, pathogenic bacteria, Cryptosporidium oocysts, Giardia cysts, and hydrological indices for surface waters within an agricultural landscape.

    Graham Wilkes;Thomas Edge;Victor Gannon;Cassandra Jokinen

  • Pharmaceutical and personal care products in groundwater, subsurface drainage, soil, and wheat grain, following a high single application of municipal biosolids to a field

    N. Gottschall;E. Topp;C. Metcalfe;M. Edwards

  • Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of biosolids to an agricultural field

    Edward Topp;Sara C. Monteiro;Andrew Beck;Bonnie Ball Coelho

  • Uptake of pharmaceuticals, hormones and parabens into vegetables grown in soil fertilized with municipal biosolids.

    Lyne Sabourin;Peter Duenk;Shelly Bonte-Gelok;Michael Payne

  • Impact of Fertilizing with Raw or Anaerobically Digested Sewage Sludge on the Abundance of Antibiotic-Resistant Coliforms, Antibiotic Resistance Genes, and Pathogenic Bacteria in Soil and on Vegetables at Harvest

    Teddie O. Rahube;Romain Marti;Andrew Scott;Yuan-Ching Tien

  • Combined impacts of future climate and land use changes on discharge, nitrogen and phosphorus loads for a Canadian river basin.

    A. El-Khoury;O. Seidou;D.R. Lapen;Z. Que

  • Associations among pathogenic bacteria, parasites, and environmental and land use factors in multiple mixed-use watersheds.

    G. Wilkes;T.A. Edge;V.P.J. Gannon;C. Jokinen

  • Pharmaceutical and personal care products in tile drainage following land application of municipal biosolids.

    D.R. Lapen;E. Topp;C.D. Metcalfe;H. Li

  • Distribution and characteristics of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from surface waters of the South Nation River watershed, Ontario, Canada.

    Emilie Lyautey;Emilie Lyautey;David R. Lapen;Graham Wilkes;Katherine McCleary

  • Early season monitoring of corn and soybeans with TerraSAR-X and RADARSAT-2

    Heather McNairn;Angela Kross;David Lapen;R. Caves

  • Pharmaceutical and personal care products in tile drainage following surface spreading and injection of dewatered municipal biosolids to an agricultural field.

    M. Edwards;E. Topp;C.D. Metcalfe;H. Li

  • Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of dewatered municipal biosolids to an agricultural field

    Lyne Sabourin;Andrew Beck;Peter W. Duenk;Sonya Kleywegt

  • Least limiting water range indicators of soil quality and corn production, eastern Ontario, Canada

    D.R Lapen;G.C Topp;E.G Gregorich;W.E Curnoe

  • Tracking host sources of Cryptosporidium spp. in raw water for improved health risk assessment.

    Norma J. Ruecker;Shannon L. Braithwaite;Edward Topp;Thomas Edge

  • Development of a rapid quantitative PCR assay for direct detection and quantification of culturable and non-culturable Escherichia coli from agriculture watersheds.

    Izhar U.H. Khan;Vic Gannon;Rob Kent;Wendell Koning

  • Environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals in the European Union: A case study with the β-blocker atenolol

    Anette Küster;Alfredo C Alder;Beate I Escher;Beate I Escher;Karen Duis

  • Distribution and Diversity of Escherichia coli Populations in the South Nation River Drainage Basin, Eastern Ontario, Canada

    Emilie Lyautey;Zexun Lu;David R. Lapen;Graham Wilkes

  • Characteristics and frequency of detection of fecal Listeria monocytogenes shed by livestock, wildlife, and humans

    Emilie LyauteyE. Lyautey;Alain HartmannA. Hartmann;Franco PagottoF. Pagotto;Kevin TylerK. Tyler

  • The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac is readily biodegradable in agricultural soils.

    Abdul Jabbar Al-Rajab;Lyne Sabourin;David R. Lapen;Edward Topp

  • Phosphorus and sediment loading to surface waters from liquid swine manure application under different drainage and tillage practices

    B. Ball Coelho;R. Murray;D. Lapen;E. Topp

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Thomas A. Edge
Thomas A. Edge Environment and Climate Change Canada
Chris D. Metcalfe
Chris D. Metcalfe Trent University
Edward A. Sudicky
Edward A. Sudicky University of Waterloo
Ian D. Clark
Ian D. Clark University of Ottawa
Edward G. Gregorich
Edward G. Gregorich Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Kathrin Fenner
Kathrin Fenner Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Alistair B.A. Boxall
Alistair B.A. Boxall University of York
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen Graz University of Technology
Philip B. Russell
Philip B. Russell Ames Research Center

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