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Overview

Mark A. Taggart is affiliated with the University of the Highlands and Islands in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ecology, Pollution, and Water Science and Technology.

Taggart's work addresses multiple topics related to environmental impact and pollutant management. These include:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Phosphorus and nutrient management
  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Heavy metal exposure and toxicity
  • Heavy metals in the environment
  • Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment

The scientist has contributed to research published frequently in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Conservation Evidence Journal
  • Water Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Taggart cover wastewater treatment and pollutant removal and include the following:

  • Low-cost chitosan-calcite adsorbent development for potential phosphate removal and recovery from wastewater effluent, 2020, Water Research
  • Removal behaviour of NSAIDs from wastewater using a P-functionalised microporous carbon, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Enhanced phosphate removal and potential recovery from wastewater by thermo-chemically calcinated shell adsorbents, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Assessing hospital impact on pharmaceutical levels in a rural 'source-to-sink' water system, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Circular economy based landfill leachate treatment with sulphur-doped microporous biochar, 2021, Waste Management

Taggart has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Sabolč Pap
  • Rhys E. Green
  • Paul P.J. Gaffney
  • Deborah J. Pain
  • Stuart W. Gibb

Best Publications

  • Toxicity of diclofenac to Gyps vultures.

    Gerry E Swan;Richard Cuthbert;Miguel Quevedo;Rhys E Green;Rhys E Green

  • Removing the Threat of Diclofenac to Critically Endangered Asian Vultures

    Gerry Swan;Vinasan Naidoo;Richard Cuthbert;Rhys E Green;Rhys E Green

  • Low-cost chitosan-calcite adsorbent development for potential phosphate removal and recovery from wastewater effluent.

    Sabolc Pap;Sabolc Pap;Caroline Kirk;Barbara Bremner;Maja Turk Sekulic

  • Heavy metal exposure in large game from a lead mining area : Effects on oxidative stress and fatty acid composition in liver

    Manuel M. Reglero;Mark A. Taggart;Lidia Monsalve-González;Rafael Mateo

  • Assessing the exposure risk and impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on individuals and ecosystems

    Kathryn E. Arnold;Alistair B. A. Boxall;A. Ross Brown;A. Ross Brown;Richard J. Cuthbert

  • Toxicity of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to Gyps vultures: a new threat from ketoprofen.

    Vinny Naidoo;Kerri Wolter;Duncan Cromarty;Maria Diekmann

  • Potential Hazard to Human Health from Exposure to Fragments of Lead Bullets and Shot in the Tissues of Game Animals

    Deborah J. Pain;Ruth L. Cromie;Julia Newth;Martin J. Brown

  • The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures

    Deborah J. Pain;Christopher G. R. Bowden;Andrew A. Cunningham;Richard Cuthbert

  • Collapse of Asian vulture populations: risk of mortality from residues of the veterinary drug diclofenac in carcasses of treated cattle

    Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Mark A. Taggart;Devojit Das;Deborah J. Pain

  • A review of the potential utilisation of plastic waste as adsorbent for removal of hazardous priority contaminants from aqueous environments.

    Huiyi Zhang;Sabolc Pap;Mark A. Taggart;Kenneth G. Boyd

  • Safety of meloxicam to critically endangered Gyps vultures and other scavenging birds in India

    D. Swarup;R. C. Patra;V. Prakash;R. Cuthbert

  • Transfer of metals to plants and red deer in an old lead mining area in Spain

    M M Reglero;L Monsalve-González;M A Taggart;R Mateo

  • Lead and arsenic in bones of birds of prey from Spain

    R. Mateo;Mark Antony Taggart;Andrew Alexander Meharg

  • Rate of decline of the Oriental white-backed vulture population in India estimated from a survey of diclofenac residues in carcasses of ungulates

    Rhys E. Green;Mark A. Taggart;Mark A. Taggart;Kalu Ram Senacha;Bindu Raghavan

  • Diclofenac residues in carcasses of domestic ungulates available to vultures in India

    Mark Antony Taggart;K. R. Senacha;R. E. Green;R. E. Green;Y. V. Jhala

  • Lead concentrations in bones and feathers of the globally threatened Spanish imperial eagle

    Deborah J. Pain;A.A. Meharg;Miguel Ferrer;Mark A. Taggart

  • The effect of different drying methods on certain nutritionally important chemical constituents in edible brown seaweeds

    Uthman O. Badmus;Mark A. Taggart;Kenneth G. Boyd

  • Levels of heavy metals and metalloids in critically endangered Iberian lynx and other wild carnivores from Southern Spain

    J. Millán;R. Mateo;M.A. Taggart;J.V. López-Bao

  • Ionisable emerging pharmaceutical adsorption onto microwave functionalised biochar derived from novel lignocellulosic waste biomass

    Olivera Paunovic;Sabolc Pap;Sabolc Pap;Snezana Maletic;Mark A. Taggart

  • Utilizing low-cost natural waste for the removal of pharmaceuticals from water: Mechanisms, isotherms and kinetics at low concentrations

    Yuan Li;Yuan Li;Mark A. Taggart;Craig McKenzie;Zulin Zhang

  • After the Aznalcóllar mine spill: arsenic, zinc, selenium, lead and copper levels in the livers and bones of five waterfowl species

    Mark Antony Taggart;J. Figuerola;A. J. Green;R. Mateo

  • Detection and drivers of exposure and effects of pharmaceuticals in higher vertebrates

    Richard F. Shore;Mark A. Taggart;Judit Smits;Rafael Mateo

  • Avian scavengers and the threat from veterinary pharmaceuticals.

    Richard J. Cuthbert;Richard J. Cuthbert;Mark A. Taggart;Vibhu Prakash;Soumya S. Chakraborty

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafael Mateo
Rafael Mateo University of Castilla-La Mancha
Rhys E. Green
Rhys E. Green University of Cambridge
Andrew A. Meharg
Andrew A. Meharg Queen's University Belfast
Deborah J. Pain
Deborah J. Pain University of Cambridge
Andy J. Green
Andy J. Green Spanish National Research Council
Marta I. Sánchez
Marta I. Sánchez University of Seville
Yadvendradev V. Jhala
Yadvendradev V. Jhala Wildlife Institute of India
Andrea Raab
Andrea Raab International Committee of the Red Cross
Richard F. Shore
Richard F. Shore Lancaster University
Andrew A. Cunningham
Andrew A. Cunningham Zoological Society of London

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