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D-Index
40
Citations
5759
World Ranking
6158
National Ranking
81

Overview

Eric Struyf is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium, focusing on environmental and agricultural sciences. Their research spans several main fields including Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with detailed work in subfields such as Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Soil Science.

The primary topics explored in Struyf's research involve:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Silicon Effects in Agriculture
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Their recent scholarly works include the following publications:

  • "Enhanced Weathering and related element fluxes - a cropland mesocosm approach" (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • "Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes?" (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • "Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi speed up carbon sequestration by enhanced weathering?" (2021), published in Plants People Planet
  • "Organic carbon source controlled microbial olivine dissolution in small-scale flow-through bioreactors, for CO2 removal" (2024), published in npj Materials Degradation
  • "Editorial: Frontiers in Phytolith Research" (2020), published in Frontiers in Plant Science

Struyf frequently publishes in venues such as Frontiers in Environmental Science, Soils for Europe., Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, and Plants People Planet.

The scientist collaborates regularly with a select group of coauthors, including Ivan A. Janssens, Jens Hartmann, Sara Vicca, Harun Niron, and Michiel Van Tendeloo. These partnerships support multidisciplinary approaches to pressing environmental and agricultural challenges.

Best Publications

  • The Scheldt estuary: a description of a changing ecosystem

    P. Meire;T.J. Ysebaert;S. Van Damme;E. Van den Bergh

  • Silica uptake in aquatic and wetland macrophytes: a strategic choice between silica, lignin and cellulose?

    Jonas Schoelynck;Kris Bal;Hans Backx;Tomasz Okruszko

  • Silica: an essential nutrient in wetland biogeochemistry

    Eric Struyf;Eric Struyf;Daniel J Conley

  • Historical land use change has lowered terrestrial silica mobilization

    Eric Struyf;Adriaan Smis;Stefan Van Damme;Josette Garnier

  • The Global Biogeochemical Silicon Cycle

    Eric Struyf;Adriaan Smis;Stefan Van Damme;Patrick Meire

  • Agricultural silica harvest: have humans created a new loop in the global silica cycle?

    Floor Vandevenne;Eric Struyf;Wim Clymans;Patrick Meire

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of water quality along the estuarine salinity gradient of the Scheldt estuary (Belgium and The Netherlands): results of an integrated monitoring approach

    S. Van Damme;E. Struyf;T. Maris;T.J. Ysebaert

  • Emerging understanding of the ecosystem silica filter

    Eric Struyf;Daniel J. Conley

  • High export of dissolved silica from the Greenland Ice Sheet

    L. Meire;P. Meire;E. Struyf;D. W. Krawczyk

  • Nitrogen processing in a tidal freshwater marsh: a whole-ecosystem 15N labeling study

    B. Gribsholt;H.T.S. Boschker;E. Struyf;M.G.I. Andersson

  • Anthropogenic impact on amorphous silica pools in temperate soils

    W. Clymans;E. Struyf;G. Govers;F. Vandevenne

  • Biogenic silica in tidal freshwater marsh sediments and vegetation (Schelde estuary, Belgium)

    E. Struyf;S. van Damme;B. Gribsholt;J.J. Middelburg

  • Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes

    Sara Vicca;Daniel S. Goll;Mathilde Hagens;Jens Hartmann

  • Fluxes of water, sediments, and biogeochemical compounds in salt marshes

    Sergio Fagherazzi;Patricia L Wiberg;Stijn Temmerman;Eric Struyf

  • Tidal marshes and biogenic silica recycling at the land-sea interface

    Eric Struyf;Armel Dausse;Stefan Van Damme;Kris Bal

  • Possible effects of climate change on estuarine nutrient fluxes: a case study in the highly nutrified Schelde estuary (Belgium, The Netherlands)

    Eric Struyf;Stefan Van Damme;Patrick Meire

  • Phragmites australis and silica cycling in tidal wetlands

    Eric Struyf;Eric Struyf;Stefan Van Damme;Britta Gribsholt;K. Bal

  • Wetland development, permafrost history and nutrient cycling inferred from late Holocene peat and lake sediment records in subarctic Sweden

    Ulla Kokfelt;Nina Reuss;Nina Reuss;Eric Struyf;Eric Struyf;Mats Sonesson;Mats Sonesson

  • Effects of phytolithic rice-straw biochar, soil buffering capacity and pH on silicon bioavailability

    Zimin Li;Dácil Unzué-Belmonte;Jean-Thomas Cornelis;Charles Vander Linden

  • Silicon controls microbial decay and nutrient release of grass litter during aquatic decomposition

    Jörg Schaller;Eric Struyf

  • How do macrophyte distribution patterns affect hydraulic resistances

    Kris Bal;Eric Struyf;Hans Vereecken;Peter Viaene

  • CORRIGENDUM: Landscape cultivation alters δ30Si signature in terrestrial ecosystems

    Floor I. Vandevenne;Claire Delvaux;Harold J. Hughes;Luc André

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Meire
Patrick Meire University of Antwerp
Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Daniel J. Conley
Daniel J. Conley Lund University
Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University
Jack J. Middelburg
Jack J. Middelburg Utrecht University
Jens Hartmann
Jens Hartmann Universität Hamburg
Bas van Wesemael
Bas van Wesemael Université Catholique de Louvain
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Stijn Temmerman
Stijn Temmerman University of Antwerp
Martin J. Hodson
Martin J. Hodson Oxford Brookes University

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