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Emma F. Covelo

Emma F. Covelo

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
36
Citations
4634
World Ranking
9169
National Ranking
286

Overview

Emma F. Covelo is affiliated with Universidade de Vigo in Spain and has conducted research primarily in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields including Water Science and Technology, Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology, Plant Science, and Biomaterials.

Their research focuses on topics related to adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, heavy metals in the environment, coal and its by-products, clay minerals and soil interactions, mine drainage and remediation techniques, crop yield and soil fertility, and genetics and plant breeding.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Emma F. Covelo include Purificación Marcet, Beatriz Cerqueira, Rubén Forján, Mati Amano Geleto, and Elena Arco-Lázaro.

They have published research across several journals, with contributions to the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal of Environmental Management, Frontiers in Plant Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Recent papers include:

  • Influence of pyrolysis temperature and feedstock biomass on Cu2+, Pb2+, and Zn2+ sorption capacity of biochar, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • Pyrolysis temperature influences the capacity of biochar to immobilize copper and arsenic in mining soil remediation, 2022, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Contrasting mobility of arsenic and copper in a mining soil: A comparative column leaching and pot testing approach, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Impact of irrigation, nitrogen fertilization, and plant density on stay-green and its effects on agronomic traits in maize, 2024, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Enhanced Sorption of Trace Metals by Biochar-Sepiolite Composite in Aqueous Solution, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Competitive sorption and desorption of heavy metals by individual soil components

    E.F. Covelo;F.A. Vega;M.L. Andrade

  • Competitive sorption and desorption of heavy metals in mine soils: influence of mine soil characteristics.

    F.A. Vega;E.F. Covelo;M.L. Andrade

  • Heavy metal adsorption by humic umbrisols: selectivity sequences and competitive sorption kinetics

    E.F. Covelo;M.L. Andrade;F.A. Vega

  • Relationships between heavy metals content and soil properties in minesoils

    F.A. Vega;E.F. Covelo;M.L. Andrade;P. Marcet

  • The dynamics of heavy metals in plant-soil interactions

    Sebastián D. Guala;Flora A. Vega;Emma F. Covelo

  • Influence of soil properties on the sorption and retention of cadmium, copper and lead, separately and together, by 20 soil horizons: Comparison of linear regression and tree regression analyses

    F.A. Vega;M.L. Andrade;E.F. Covelo

  • Simultaneous sorption and desorption of Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn in acid soils I. Selectivity sequences.

    E F Covelo;F A Vega;M L Andrade

  • The influence of soil properties on the individual and competitive sorption and desorption of Cu and Cd

    Beatriz Cerqueira;Emma F. Covelo;Luisa Andrade;Flora A. Vega

  • Heavy metal sorption and desorption capacity of soils containing endogenous contaminants.

    Emma Fernández Covelo;Flora Alonso Vega;M. Luisa Andrade

  • Simultaneous sorption and desorption of Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn in acid soils II. Soil ranking and influence of soil characteristics.

    E.F. Covelo;F.A. Vega;M.L. Andrade

  • Effect of the Prestige oil spill on salt marsh soils on the coast of Galicia (northwestern Spain).

    M. L. Andrade;E. F. Covelo;F. A. Vega;P. Marcet

  • Effects of tree vegetation and waste amendments on the fractionation of Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in polluted mine soils.

    Verónica Asensio;Flora A. Vega;Bal Ram Singh;Emma F. Covelo

  • Tree vegetation and waste amendments to improve the physical condition of copper mine soils.

    V. Asensio;F.A. Vega;M.L. Andrade;E.F. Covelo

  • Soil management of copper mine tailing soils--sludge amendment and tree vegetation could improve biological soil quality.

    Verónica Asensio;Emma F. Covelo;Ellen Kandeler

  • Chemical fractionation of Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in a mine soil amended with compost and biochar and vegetated with Brassica juncea L.

    Alfonso Rodríguez-Vila;Verónica Asensio;Verónica Asensio;Rubén Forján;Emma F. Covelo

  • Phytoremediating a copper mine soil with Brassica juncea L., compost and biochar

    Alfonso Rodríguez-Vila;Emma F. Covelo;Rubén Forján;Verónica Asensio

  • Contribution of waste and biochar amendment to the sorption of metals in a copper mine tailing

    R. Forján;V. Asensio;A. Rodríguez-Vila;E.F. Covelo

  • Sorption and desorption of Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn by a Fibric Histosol and its organo-mineral fraction.

    E.F. Covelo;F.A. Vega;M.L. Andrade

  • Classification and regression trees (CARTs) for modelling the sorption and retention of heavy metals by soil.

    F.A. Vega;J.M. Matías;M.L. Andrade;M.J. Reigosa

  • A versatile parameter for comparing the capacities of soils for sorption and retention of heavy metals dumped individually or together: results for cadmium, copper and lead in twenty soil horizons.

    F.A. Vega;E.F. Covelo;M.L. Andrade

  • Adsorption and desorption kinetics and phosphorus hysteresis in highly weathered soil by stirred flow chamber experiments

    Rafael Silva Guedes;Leônidas Carrijo Azavedo Melo;Leonardus Vergütz;Alfonso Rodríguez-Vila

Frequent Co-Authors

Flora A. Vega
Flora A. Vega Universidade de Vigo
Manuel J. Reigosa
Manuel J. Reigosa Universidade de Vigo
Ellen Kandeler
Ellen Kandeler University of Hohenheim
Bal Ram Singh
Bal Ram Singh Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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