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Belgium
2025

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
86
Citations
22283
World Ranking
722
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Filip Tack is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science, with a focus on pollution and the interactions between heavy metals and the environment. Their research contributions span a variety of specialized subfields, including pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, plant science, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's primary research interests concentrate on issues related to heavy metals in the environment, plant stress responses and tolerance, and heavy metal exposure and toxicity. Additional focus areas include mercury impact and mitigation studies, geochemistry and elemental analysis, phosphorus and nutrient management, and plant micronutrient interactions and effects.

Tack has published multiple recent papers in reputed journals, showcasing varied environmental science topics:

  • "Cadmium stress in plants: A critical review of the effects, mechanisms, and tolerance strategies" (2020) in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • "A review of green remediation strategies for heavy metal contaminated soil" (2021) in Soil Use and Management
  • "Speciation, transportation, and pathways of cadmium in soil-rice systems: A review on the environmental implications and remediation approaches for food safety" (2021) in Environment International
  • "The beneficial and hazardous effects of selenium on the health of the soil-plant-human system: An overview" (2021) in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Influence of biochar on trace element uptake, toxicity and detoxification in plants and associated health risks: A critical review" (2021) in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several colleagues, most notably:

  • Jörg Rinklebe
  • Erik Meers
  • Yong Sik Ok
  • Deyi Hou
  • Jayanta Kumar Biswas

Tack has published multiple works in notable venues, which include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (8 publications)
  • Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (3 publications)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials (2 publications)
  • Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology (2 publications)
  • Land Degradation and Development (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Trace metal behaviour in estuarine and riverine floodplain soils and sediments: A review

    G. Du Laing;J. Rinklebe;B. Vandecasteele;E. Meers

  • Chemical Speciation and Fractionation in Soil and Sediment Heavy Metal Analysis: A Review

    Filip Tack;Marc Verloo

  • Cadmium stress in plants: A critical review of the effects, mechanisms, and tolerance strategies

    Taoufik El Rasafi;Abdallah Oukarroum;Abdelmajid Haddioui;Hocheol Song

  • A critical review on effects, tolerance mechanisms and management of cadmium in vegetables.

    Muhammad Rizwan;Shafaqat Ali;Muhammad Adrees;Muhammad Ibrahim

  • Mercury speciation, transformation, and transportation in soils, atmospheric flux, and implications for risk management: A critical review

    David O'Connor;Deyi Hou;Yong Sik Ok;Jan Mulder

  • Nutrient recovery from digestate : systematic technology review and product classification

    Céline Vaneeckhaute;Viooltje Lebuf;Evi Michels;Evangelina Belia

  • Remediation of mercury contaminated soil, water, and air: A review of emerging materials and innovative technologies.

    Liuwei Wang;Deyi Hou;Yining Cao;Yong Sik Ok

  • Cadmium phytoremediation potential of Brassica crop species: A review

    Muhammad Rizwan;Shafaqat Ali;Muhammad Zia ur Rehman;Jörg Rinklebe

  • EDTA-assisted Pb phytoextraction

    Saifullah;E Meers;M Qadir;P de Caritat

  • The use of bio-energy crops (Zea mays) for 'phytoattenuation' of heavy metals on moderately contaminated soils: a field experiment.

    E. Meers;S. Van Slycken;Kristin Adriaensen;Ann Ruttens

  • Effect of salinity on heavy metal mobility and availability in intertidal sediments of the Scheldt estuary

    G. Du Laing;R. De Vos;B. Vandecasteele;E. Lesage

  • Phytoremediation prospects of willow stands on contaminated sediment: a field trial

    Pieter Vervaeke;S Luyssaert;Jan Mertens;Erik Meers

  • Phytoremediation for heavy metal‐contaminated soils combined with bioenergy production

    Luc Van Ginneken;Erik Meers;Ruben Guisson;Ann Ruttens

  • Phytoavailability assessment of heavy metals in soils by single extractions and accumulation by Phaseolus vulgaris

    Erik Meers;R Samson;Filip Tack;A Ruttens

  • Potential of five willow species (Salix spp.) for phytoextraction of heavy metals.

    Erik Meers;B. Vandecasteele;Ann Ruttens;Jaco Vangronsveld

  • Sustainable in situ remediation of recalcitrant organic pollutants in groundwater with controlled release materials: A review

    David O'Connor;Deyi Hou;Yong Sik Ok;Yinan Song

  • A review of green remediation strategies for heavy metal contaminated soil

    Liuwei Wang;Jörg Rinklebe;Jörg Rinklebe;Filip M. G. Tack;Deyi Hou

  • Potential of Brassic rapa, Cannabis sativa, Helianthus annuus and Zea mays for phytoextraction of heavy metals from calcareous dredged sediment derived soils

    Erik Meers;A Ruttens;M Hopgood;Els Lesage

  • Effects of a municipal solid waste compost and mineral fertilization on plant growth in two tropical agricultural soils of Mali.

    M Soumare;Filip Tack;Marc Verloo

  • Speciation, transportation, and pathways of cadmium in soil-rice systems: A review on the environmental implications and remediation approaches for food safety.

    Zhanming Li;Yi Liang;Hangwei Hu;Sabry M. Shaheen

  • Accumulation of metals in a horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland treating domestic wastewater in Flanders, Belgium.

    E. Lesage;D.P.L. Rousseau;E. Meers;F.M.G. Tack

  • Characterization of selected element concentrations and enrichment ratios in background and anthropogenically impacted roadside areas.

    R. A. Sutherland;C. A. Tolosa;F. M. G. Tack;M. G. Verloo

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Meers
Erik Meers Ghent University
Marc Verloo
Marc Verloo Ghent University
Gijs Du Laing
Gijs Du Laing Ghent University
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok Korea University
Ann Ruttens
Ann Ruttens Sciensano (Belgium)
Jörg Rinklebe
Jörg Rinklebe University of Wuppertal
Peter A. Vanrolleghem
Peter A. Vanrolleghem Université Laval
Jaco Vangronsveld
Jaco Vangronsveld Hasselt University
Daniel C.W. Tsang
Daniel C.W. Tsang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tom Van de Wiele
Tom Van de Wiele Ghent University

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