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Philip S. Rainbow is a researcher affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily revolves around environmental science, with significant contributions in earth and planetary sciences. Their research fields include health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, oceanography, environmental chemistry, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their recent papers reflect a focus on heavy metals and ecotoxicology in aquatic environments. Key publications include:

  • "Accumulation of trace metals in freshwater macroinvertebrates across metal contamination gradients," 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • "Mining-contaminated estuaries of Cornwall - field research laboratories for trace metal ecotoxicology," 2020, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
  • "Obituary: Dr W.J. (Bill) Langston (1951-2020)," 2020, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Philip S. Rainbow's collaborative network includes contributions alongside several co-authors, among whom Wen-Xiong Wang appears most frequently. Other frequent co-authors include Amanda Arnold, John F. Murphy, James L. Pretty, and Charles P. Duerdoth.

The researcher's principal topics of study cover:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Heavy metal exposure and toxicity

Philip S. Rainbow has published books through Springer Nature (Netherlands), including the titled work Environmental Pollution of the Pearl River Estuary, China, published in 2020.

The venues that have featured their research repeatedly are:

  • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
  • Environmental Pollution

This profile indicates a strong emphasis on the environmental assessment of pollution, especially concerning heavy metals and ecotoxicological impacts in marine and freshwater ecosystems. Their research reflects multi-disciplinary approaches crossing various subfields within environmental and earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • Trace metal concentrations in aquatic invertebrates: why and so what?

    Philip S Rainbow

  • Metallothioneins in aquatic invertebrates : their role in metal detoxification and their use as biomarkers

    J.-C. Amiard;C. Amiard-Triquet;S. Barka;J. Pellerin

  • Why Is Metal Bioaccumulation So Variable? Biodynamics as a Unifying Concept

    Samuel N. Luoma;Philip S. Rainbow

  • Biomonitoring of heavy metal availability in the marine environment

    P.S. Rainbow

  • Biomonitoring of Trace Aquatic Contaminants

    David J. H. Phillips;Philip S. Rainbow

  • Metal Contamination in Aquatic Environments: Science and Lateral Management

    Samuel N. Luoma;P. S. Rainbow;Jeanne DiLeo

  • Trace metal bioaccumulation: models, metabolic availability and toxicity.

    Philip S. Rainbow

  • Heavy Metals in the Marine Environment

    Robert W. Furness;Philip S. Rainbow

  • Cosmopolitan biomonitors of trace metals

    Philip S. Rainbow;David J.H. Phillips

  • Comparative strategies of heavy metal accumulation by crustaceans: zinc, copper and cadmium in a decapod, an amphipod and a barnacle

    P. S. Rainbow;S. L. White

  • Ecotoxicology of Metals in Invertebrates

    Reinhard Dallinger;P. S. Rainbow

  • The significance of trace metal concentrations in marine invertebrates

    Philip S. Rainbow;David J.H. Phillips;Michael H. Depledge

  • Comparative approaches to understand metal bioaccumulation in aquatic animals

    Wen-Xiong Wang;Philip S. Rainbow

  • Ecophysiology of trace metal uptake in crustaceans

    P.S. Rainbow

  • MODELS OF REGULATION AND ACCUMULATION OF TRACE METALS IN MARINE INVERTEBRATES

    M.H. Depledge;P.S. Rainbow

  • Trace Metal Accumulation in Marine Invertebrates: Marine Biology or Marine Chemistry?

    Philip S. Rainbow

  • Does the accumulation of trace metals in crustaceans affect their ecology: the amphipod example?

    I.D Marsden;P.S Rainbow

  • Regulation and Accumulation of Copper, Zinc and Cadmium by the Shrimp Palaemon elegans

    SL White;PS Rainbow

  • Physiology, physicochemistry and metal uptake—A crustacean perspective

    Philip S. Rainbow

  • On the metabolic requirements for copper and zinc in molluscs and crustaceans

    S.L. White;P.S. Rainbow

  • Erratum to “Trace metal concentrations in aquatic invertebrates: why and so what?”

    Philip S Rainbow

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian D. Smith
Brian D. Smith Natural History Museum
Wen-Xiong Wang
Wen-Xiong Wang City University of Hong Kong
Samuel N. Luoma
Samuel N. Luoma University of California, Davis
Jean-Claude Amiard
Jean-Claude Amiard University of Nantes
Claude Amiard-Triquet
Claude Amiard-Triquet University of Nantes
Catherine Mouneyrac
Catherine Mouneyrac Catholic University of the West
Paul O'Brien
Paul O'Brien University of Manchester
Hing Man Chan
Hing Man Chan University of Ottawa
Michael H. Depledge
Michael H. Depledge University of Exeter
Julián Blasco
Julián Blasco Spanish National Research Council

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