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Edward Tipping is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and focuses on environmental science with a particular emphasis on ecology, soil science, environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and water science and technology. Their recent work shows considerable involvement in understanding nutrient dynamics and ecological impacts in terrestrial and aquatic environments.

The main topics of Edward Tipping's research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Edward Tipping are:

  • "Simulating long-term carbon nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemical cycling in agricultural environments," 2020, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Long term simulations of macronutrients (C, N and P) in UK freshwaters," 2021, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Phosphorus supply affects long-term carbon accumulation in mid-latitude ombrotrophic peatlands," 2021, published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Long-term effects of atmospheric deposition on British plant species richness," 2021, published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Changes in carbon storage since the pre-industrial era: A national scale analysis," 2021, published in Anthropocene

Edward Tipping collaborates frequently with several researchers including Jessica Davies, Stephen Lofts, Victoria Janes-Bassett, E.C. Rowe, and A. P. Whitmore. These collaborations have contributed to a variety of studies spanning different aspects of environmental and ecological science.

The primary venues for Edward Tipping's publications include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Aquatic Toxicology
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Anthropocene

Best Publications

  • Cation Binding by Humic Substances

    Edward Tipping

  • The adsorption of aquatic humic substances by iron oxides

    E Tipping

  • Humic Ion-Binding Model VI: An Improved Description of the Interactions of Protons and Metal Ions with Humic Substances

    Edward Tipping

  • WHAM—a chemical equilibrium model and computer code for waters, sediments, and soils incorporating a discrete site/electrostatic model of ion-binding by humic substances

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  • A unifying model of cation binding by humic substances

    E Tipping;Margaret Anne Hurley

  • Generic NICA−Donnan Model Parameters for Metal-Ion Binding by Humic Substances

    Christopher J. Milne;David G. Kinniburgh;Edward Tipping

  • Complexation with dissolved organic matter and solubility control of heavy metals in a sandy soil.

    Liping Weng;Erwin J M Temminghoff;Stephen Lofts;Edward Tipping

  • Al(III) and Fe(III) binding by humic substances in freshwaters, and implications for trace metal speciation.

    Edward Tipping;Carlos Rey-Castro;Stephen E Bryan;John Hamilton-Taylor

  • The solid-solution partitioning of heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb) in upland soils of England and Wales

    E. Tipping;J. Rieuwerts;G. Pan;G. Pan;M.R. Ashmore

  • Generic NICA-Donnan model parameters for proton binding by humic substances.

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  • Humic Ion-Binding Model VII: a revised parameterisation of cation-binding by humic substances

    E. Tipping;S. Lofts;J. E. Sonke

  • The effects of adsorbed humic substances on the surface charge of goethite (α-FeOOH) in freshwaters

    Edward Tipping;David Cooke

  • Climatic influences on the leaching of dissolved organic matter from upland UK moorland soils, investigated by a field manipulation experiment

    E. Tipping;C. Woof;E. Rigg;A.F. Harrison

  • Trends in Dissolved Organic Carbon in UK Rivers and Lakes

    Fred Worrall;Ron Harriman;Chris D. Evans;Carol D. Watts

  • Atmospheric deposition of phosphorus to land and freshwater

    E. Tipping;Sue Benham;John Boyle;Peter Crow

  • The C:N:P:S stoichiometry of soil organic matter

    Edward Tipping;Cayman J. Somerville;Jörg Luster

  • The effect of adsorbed humic substances on the colloid stability of haematite particles

    E. Tipping;D.C. Higgins

  • Artifacts in the use of selective chemical extraction to determine distributions of metals between oxides of manganese and iron

    Edward. Tipping;Nigel B. Hetherington;John. Hilton;Dudley W. Thompson

  • Deriving soil critical limits for Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb: a method based on free ion concentrations.

    Stephen Lofts;David J. Spurgeon;Claus Svendsen;Edward Tipping

  • Comparison of measured and modelled copper binding by natural organic matter in freshwaters.

    S.E Bryan;E Tipping;J Hamilton-Taylor

  • Modelling the production and transport of dissolved organic carbon in forest soils

    Beate Michalzik;Edward Tipping;Jan Mulder;J. F. Gallardo Lancho

  • A model of solid‐solution interactions in acid organic soils, based on the complexation properties of humic substances

    E. Tipping;Margaret Anne Hurley

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Lofts
Stephen Lofts Natural Environment Research Council
Don Monteith
Don Monteith Lancaster University
Chris D. Evans
Chris D. Evans UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
John N. Quinton
John N. Quinton Lancaster University
Charlotte Bryant
Charlotte Bryant Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Brian Reynolds
Brian Reynolds Bangor University
John Boyle
John Boyle University of Liverpool
Mike Ashmore
Mike Ashmore University of York
Rachel Helliwell
Rachel Helliwell James Hutton Institute
Andrew P. Whitmore
Andrew P. Whitmore Rothamsted Research

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