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Overview

Peter E. Holm is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and focuses on environmental and agricultural sciences. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a significant concentration on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

They also contribute to several subfields, notably:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Plant Science
  • Pollution
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Water Science and Technology

Peter E. Holm's research topics encompass:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Coal and Its By-products
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Recent notable papers include:

  • Quantitative source apportionment, risk assessment and distribution of heavy metals in agricultural soils from southern Shandong Peninsula of China (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • A critical review of phytoremediation for acid mine drainage-impacted environments (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Rare earth elements in surface specific urban runoff in Northern Beijing (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Phosphorus doped cyanobacterial biochar catalyzes efficient persulfate oxidation of the antibiotic norfloxacin (2023, Bioresource Technology)
  • Phosphorus accumulation and leaching risk of greenhouse vegetable soils in Southeast China (2021, Pedosphere)

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Bjarne Moeslund
  • Richard V. Lansdown
  • Lars Baastrup-Spohr
  • Gerhard Wiegleb
  • KajVE Sand-Jensen

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • International Journal of Agricultural Resources Governance and Ecology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bioresource Technology

Peter E. Holm has also authored multiple books published by Princeton University Press. Titles related to aquatic plants include:

  • Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland (2023)
  • Key to the Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland (2023)

Best Publications

  • Attenuation of landfill leachate pollutants in aquifers

    Thomas Højlund Christensen;Peter Kjeldsen;Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen;Gorm Heron

  • Source identification of heavy metals in peri-urban agricultural soils of southeast China: An integrated approach.

    Wenyou Hu;Wenyou Hu;Huifeng Wang;Lurui Dong;Biao Huang

  • Selection for Cu-tolerant bacterial communities with altered composition, but unaltered richness, via long-term Cu exposure.

    Jeanette Berg;Kristian K. Brandt;Waleed A. Al-Soud;Peter E. Holm

  • Cu Exposure under Field Conditions Coselects for Antibiotic Resistance as Determined by a Novel Cultivation-Independent Bacterial Community Tolerance Assay

    Jeanette Berg;Maja K Thorsen;Peter E Holm;John Jensen

  • Potential of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to extract As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn from polluted soils: A review

    Ole K. Borggaard;Peter E. Holm;Bjarne W. Strobel

  • Review of arsenic contamination, exposure through water and food and low cost mitigation options for rural areas

    Anitha Kumari Sharma;Jens Christian Tjell;Jens Jørgen Sloth;Peter E. Holm

  • Heavy metals in intensive greenhouse vegetable production systems along Yellow Sea of China: Levels, transfer and health risk.

    Wenyou Hu;Biao Huang;Kang Tian;Peter E. Holm

  • Quantitative source apportionment, risk assessment and distribution of heavy metals in agricultural soils from southern Shandong Peninsula of China.

    Haiwei Liu;Yan Zhang;Jiashuo Yang;Haiyun Wang

  • pH-dependent release of cadmium, copper, and lead from natural and sludge-amended soils.

    Orathai Sukreeyapongse;Peter E. Holm;Bjarne W. Strobel;Supamard Panichsakpatana

  • Sorption hysteresis of Cd(II) and Pb(II) on natural zeolite and bentonite.

    Mohsen Hamidpour;Mahmoud Kalbasi;Majid Afyuni;Hossein Shariatmadari

  • The potential of willow for remediation of heavy metal polluted calcareous urban soils

    Julie K. Jensen;Peter E. Holm;Jens Nejrup;Morten B. Larsen

  • Comparison of Metals and Tetracycline as Selective Agents for Development of Tetracycline Resistant Bacterial Communities in Agricultural Soil

    Jianxiao Song;Christopher Rensing;Peter E. Holm;Marko Virta

  • Applications of fertilizer cations affect cadmium and zinc concentrations in soil solutions and uptake by plants

    S. E. Lorenz;R. E. Hamon;S. P. McGrath;Peter Engelund Holm

  • Cadmium and zinc in plants and soil solutions from contaminated soils

    S.E. Lorenz;R.E. Hamon;P.E. Holm;H.C. Domingues

  • Importance of Unattached Bacteria and Bacteria Attached to Sediment in Determining Potentials for Degradation of Xenobiotic Organic Contaminants in an Aerobic Aquifer

    P E Holm;P H Nielsen;H J Albrechtsen;T H Christensen

  • Speciation of Cadmium and Zinc with Application to Soil Solutions

    Peter Engelund Holm;Thomas Højlund Christensen;Jens Christian Tjell;S.P. McGrath

  • Coping with copper: legacy effect of copper on potential activity of soil bacteria following a century of exposure.

    Inês Nunes;Samuel Jacquiod;Asker Brejnrod;Peter E. Holm

  • Effect of Endophytic Fungi on Cadmium Tolerance and Bioaccumulation by Festuca Arundinacea and Festuca Pratensis

    Mohsen Soleimani;Mohammad A. Hajabbasi;Majid Afyuni;Aghafakhr Mirlohi

  • Development of pollution-induced community tolerance is linked to structural and functional resilience of a soil bacterial community following a five-year field exposure to copper

    Kristian K. Brandt;Rasmus J.N. Frandsen;Peter E. Holm;Ole Nybroe

  • China's Soil Pollution Control: Choices and Challenges.

    Changsheng Qu;Wei Shi;Jing Guo;Binbin Fang

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Højlund Christensen
Thomas Højlund Christensen Technical University of Denmark
Hans Christian Bruun Hansen
Hans Christian Bruun Hansen University of Copenhagen
Ole K. Borggaard
Ole K. Borggaard University of Copenhagen
Kristian K. Brandt
Kristian K. Brandt University of Copenhagen
Ole Nybroe
Ole Nybroe University of Copenhagen
Steve P. McGrath
Steve P. McGrath Rothamsted Research
Wenyou Hu
Wenyou Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Anders Dalsgaard
Anders Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Søren Husted
Søren Husted University of Copenhagen
Enzo Lombi
Enzo Lombi University of South Australia

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