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Ulf Skyllberg is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a notable emphasis on mercury impact and mitigation studies. This includes detailed investigations into heavy metals in the environment and toxic organic pollutants, as well as an interest in peatlands and wetlands ecology.

The scientist has contributed to a broad array of topics related to environmental contamination and ecological health. Their main fields of study comprise:

  • Environmental Science

Within environmental science, their subfields of study encompass:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Building and Construction
  • Biomedical Engineering

The research topics covered include:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Ulf Skyllberg has published research in a number of venues, with frequent publications in the following journals:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nature Communications
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Among recent and notable papers authored or co-authored by Ulf Skyllberg are:

  • "Dissolved organic matter thiol concentrations determine methylmercury bioavailability across the terrestrial-marine aquatic continuum", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Anaerobic guilds responsible for mercury methylation in boreal wetlands of varied trophic status serving as either a methylmercury source or sink", 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • "Chemical speciation of mercury, sulfur and iron in a dystrophic boreal lake sediment, as controlled by the formation of mackinawite and framboidal pyrite", 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Methylmercury formation in boreal wetlands in relation to chemical speciation of mercury(II) and concentration of low molecular mass thiols", 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Mercury deposition and redox transformation processes in peatland constrained by mercury stable isotopes", 2023, Nature Communications

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, frequently working with:

  • Erik Björn
  • Mats B. Nilsson
  • Kevin Bishop
  • Andrea G. Bravo
  • Stefan Bertilsson

Best Publications

  • Complexation of mercury(II) in soil organic matter: EXAFS evidence for linear two-coordination with reduced sulfur groups.

    Ulf Skyllberg;Paul R. Bloom;Jin Qian;Chung-Min Lin

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopic evidence for the complexation of HG(II) by reduced sulfur in soil humic substances

    K. Xia;U. L. Skyllberg;W. F. Bleam;P. R. Bloom

  • Competition among thiols and inorganic sulfides and polysulfides for Hg and MeHg in wetland soils and sediments under suboxic conditions: Illumination of controversies and implications for MeHg net production

    Ulf Skyllberg

  • Organic acid induced release of nutrients from metal-stabilized soil organic matter – The unbutton model

    Marianne Clarholm;Ulf Skyllberg;Anna Rosling

  • Mercury deposition and re-emission pathways in boreal forest soils investigated with Hg isotope signatures.

    Martin Jiskra;Jan G. Wiederhold;Ulf Skyllberg;Rose Marie Kronberg

  • Binding of mercury(II) to reduced sulfur in soil organic matter along upland-peat soil transects

    Ulf Skyllberg;Kang Xia;Paul R. Bloom;Edward A. Nater

  • XANES Studies of Oxidation States of Sulfur in Aquatic and Soil Humic Substances

    K. Xia;F. Weesner;W. F. Bleam;P. A. Helmke

  • Distribution of mercury, methyl mercury and organic sulphur species in soil, soil solution and stream of a boreal forest catchment

    Ulf Skyllberg;Jin Qian;Wolfgang Frech;Kang Xia

  • Importance of dissolved neutral mercury sulfides for methyl mercury production in contaminated sediments.

    Andreas Drott;Lars Lambertsson;Erik Björn;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Complexation of Copper(II) in Organic Soils and in Dissolved Organic Matter - EXAFS Evidence for Chelate Ring Structures

    Torbjörn Karlsson;Per Persson;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Do potential methylation rates reflect accumulated methyl mercury in contaminated sediments

    Andreas Drott;Lars Lambertsson;Erik Björn;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Competition between disordered iron sulfide and natural organic matter associated thiols for mercury(II)-an EXAFS study.

    Ulf Skyllberg;Andreas Drott

  • Mercury Methylation Rates for Geochemically Relevant HgII Species in Sediments

    Sofi Jonsson;Ulf Skyllberg;Mats B. Nilsson;Per-Olof Westlund

  • Influence of dissolved organic matter (DOM) characteristics on dissolved mercury (Hg) species composition in sediment porewater of lakes from southwest China.

    Tao Jiang;Andrea G. Bravo;Ulf Skyllberg;Erik Björn

  • Differentiated availability of geochemical mercury pools controls methylmercury levels in estuarine sediment and biota.

    Sofi Jonsson;Ulf Skyllberg;Mats B. Nilsson;Erik Lundberg

  • Bonding of methyl mercury to reduced sulfur groups in soil and stream organic matter as determined by x-ray absorption spectroscopy and binding affinity studies

    Jin Qian;Ulf Skyllberg;Wolfgang Frech;William F Bleam

  • Translocation of metals by trees and fungi regulates pH, soil organic matter turnover and nitrogen availability in acidic forest soils

    Marianne Clarholm;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Soil pH and pH Buffering

    Paul R. Bloom;Ulf Skyllberg

  • Bioavailability of cobalt and nickel during anaerobic digestion of sulfur-rich stillage for biogas formation

    Jenny Gustavsson;Sepehr Shakeri Yekta;Carina Sundberg;Anna Karlsson

  • Cation exchange in forest soils: the need for a new perspective

    D. S. Ross;G. Matschonat;U. Skyllberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Björn
Erik Björn Umeå University
Bo H. Svensson
Bo H. Svensson Linköping University
Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Agneta Andersson
Agneta Andersson Umeå University
Markus Meili
Markus Meili Stockholm University
Mats Tysklind
Mats Tysklind Umeå University
Per Persson
Per Persson Linköping University

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