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Slovenia
2025

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Environmental Sciences

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44
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7117
World Ranking
6772
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4

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  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Slovenia Leader Award

Overview

Jadran Faganeli is affiliated with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and specializes in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work predominantly focuses on the oceanography subfield, with significant exploration in health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, ecology, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research interests center on topics including heavy metals in the environment, mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine and fisheries research, and geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Jadran Faganeli has contributed scholarly articles to several publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Geophysical Monograph
  • Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • Marine Chemistry
  • Acta Chimica Slovenica
  • Environmental Pollution

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Eutrophication, Harmful Algae, Oxygen Depletion, and Acidification (2020, Geophysical Monograph)
  • Distribution, Mobility and Fate of Trace Elements in an Estuarine System Under Anthropogenic Pressure: the Case of the Karstic Timavo River (Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy) (2021, Estuaries and Coasts)
  • Partitioning and Mixing Behaviour of Trace Elements at the Isonzo/Soča River Mouth (Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic Sea) (2020, Marine Chemistry)
  • Trace Elements in the Estuarine Systems of the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea): A Chemometric Approach to Depict Partitioning and Behaviour of Particulate, Colloidal and Truly Dissolved Fractions (2020, Chemosphere)
  • Phytoplankton Dynamics in a Changing Environment (2020, Geophysical Monograph)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jadran Faganeli are:

  • Stefano Covelli
  • Alenka Malej
  • Katja Klun
  • Nives Ogrinc
  • Ingrid Falnoga

Best Publications

  • Total mercury, methylmercury and selenium in mercury polluted areas in the province Guizhou, China

    Milena Horvat;Natasa Nolde;Vesna Fajon;Vesna Jereb

  • Mercury contamination of coastal sediments as the result of long-term cinnabar mining activity (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic sea)

    Stefano Covelli;Jadran Faganeli;Milena Horvat;Antonio Brambati

  • Mercury in contaminated coastal environments; a case study: the Gulf of Trieste.

    Milena Horvat;Stefano Covelli;Jadran Faganeli;Martina Logar

  • Composition, distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments of the Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic Sea.

    Marko Notar;Hermina Leskovšek;Jadran Faganeli

  • Mercury biogeochemistry in the Idrija River, Slovenia, from above the Mine into the Gulf of Trieste

    M. E. Hines;M. Horvat;J. Faganeli;J.-C. J. Bonzongo

  • Carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions of organic matter in coastal marine sediments (the Gulf of Trieste, N Adriatic Sea): indicators of sources and preservation

    Nives Ogrinc;Giorgio Fontolan;Jadran Faganeli;Stefano Covelli

  • Porewater Distribution and Benthic Flux Measurements of Mercury and Methylmercury in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea)

    Stefano Covelli;J. Faganeli;M. Horvat;Antonio Brambati

  • Marine geology of the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic): Sedimentological aspects

    B Ogorelec;M Mišič;J Faganeli

  • Mercury and methylmercury in the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea).

    J. Faganeli;M. Horvat;Stefano Covelli;V. Fajon

  • Benthic fluxes of mercury species in a lagoon environment (Grado Lagoon, Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy)

    Stefano Covelli;Jadran Faganeli;Cinzia De Vittor;Sergio Predonzani

  • Microbial mercury transformations in marine, estuarine and freshwater sediment downstream of the Idrija Mercury Mine, Slovenia

    Mark E. Hines;Jadran Faganeli;Isaac Adatto;Milena Horvat

  • Anthropogenic markers in the Holocene stratigraphic sequence of the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea)

    Stefano Covelli;Giorgio Fontolan;Jadran Faganeli;Nives Ogrinc

  • Stable isotope and biochemical fractionation in the marine pelagic food chain: the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca and net zooplankton

    A. Malej;J. Faganeli;J. Pezdič

  • Evaluation of lipid biomarkers as indicators of changes in organic matter delivery to sediments from Lake Planina, a remote mountain lake in NW Slovenia

    Gregor Muri;Stuart G. Wakeham;Tamara K. Pease;Jadran Faganeli

  • C : N : P ratios and stable c-isotopic ratios as indicators of sources of organic-matter in the gulf of trieste (northern adriatic)

    Jadran Faganeli;Alenka Malej;Joze Pezdic;Vlado Malacic

  • Mercury distribution in water, sediment and soil in the Idrijca and SoĉAhca river systems

    M. Horvat;V. Jereb;V. Fajon;M. Logar

  • Microphytobenthos in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea) : Relationship with labile sedimentary organic matter and nutrients

    C. Welker;E. Sdrigotti;S. Covelli;J. Faganeli

  • Marine geology of the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic): Geochemical aspects

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  • Bottom layer anoxia in the central part of the Gulf of Trieste in the late summer of 1983

    J Faganeli;A Avčin;N Fanuko;A Malej

  • Transport and dispersion of particulate Hg associated with a river plume in coastal Northern Adriatic environments

    Stefano Covelli;Raffaella Piani;Alessandro Acquavita;Sergio Predonzani

  • Mercury in the sediments of the Marano and Grado Lagoon (northern Adriatic Sea): Sources, distribution and speciation

    Alessandro Acquavita;Alessandro Acquavita;Stefano Covelli;Andrea Emili;Daniela Berto

  • The origin of sedimentary organic matter in the Adriatic

    J. Faganeli;J. Pezdic;B. Ogorelec;M. Misˇicˇ

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Covelli
Stefano Covelli University of Trieste
Milena Horvat
Milena Horvat Jožef Stefan Institute
Nives Ogrinc
Nives Ogrinc Jožef Stefan Institute
Boris Sket
Boris Sket University of Ljubljana
Mark E. Hines
Mark E. Hines University of Massachusetts Lowell
Alenka Malej
Alenka Malej National Institute of Biology
Tamar Barkay
Tamar Barkay Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Stuart G. Wakeham
Stuart G. Wakeham Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Walter R. Boynton
Walter R. Boynton University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Luis Carrasco
Luis Carrasco Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa

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