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Walter W. Wenzel

Walter W. Wenzel

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
60
Citations
17460
World Ranking
1192
National Ranking
8

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
17722
World Ranking
2872
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Walter W. Wenzel is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and focuses their research primarily within the domains of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Plant Science, Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Language and Linguistics.

The scholar's research topics reflect an emphasis on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Heavy metals in environment, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Linguistics and language evolution.

Recent notable publications by Walter W. Wenzel include:

  • Optimizing Carbon Sequestration in Croplands: A Synthesis, 2021, Agronomy
  • Co-localised phosphorus mobilization processes in the rhizosphere of field-grown maize jointly contribute to plant nutrition, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Co-occurring increased phosphatase activity and labile P depletion in the rhizosphere of Lupinus angustifolius assessed with a novel, combined 2D-imaging approach, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Antecedent soil moisture and rain intensity control pathways and quality of organic carbon exports from arable land, 2021, CATENA
  • Response of tungsten (W) solubility and chemical fractionation to changes in soil pH and soil aging, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jakob Santner, Markus Puschenreiter, Olivier Duboc, Alireza Golestanifard, and Eva Oburger.

Walter W. Wenzel's publications appear regularly in journals such as Geoderma, Plant Soil and Environment, The Science of The Total Environment, Plant and Soil, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Best Publications

  • Arsenic fractionation in soils using an improved sequential extraction procedure

    Walter W Wenzel;Natalie Kirchbaumer;Thomas Prohaska;Gerhard Stingeder

  • Arsenic transformations in the soil-rhizosphere-plant system: fundamentals and potential application to phytoremediation.

    Walter J Fitz;Walter W Wenzel

  • Role of assisted natural remediation in environmental cleanup

    Domy Adriano;WW Wenzel;Jaco Vangronsveld;NS Bolan

  • Trace elements in the soil-plant interface: Phytoavailability, translocation, and phytoremediation–A review

    Vasileios Antoniadis;Efi Levizou;Sabry M. Shaheen;Sabry M. Shaheen;Yong Sik Ok;Yong Sik Ok

  • Rhizosphere processes and management in plant-assisted bioremediation (phytoremediation) of soils.

    Walter W. Wenzel

  • The role of plant-associated bacteria in the mobilization and phytoextraction of trace elements in contaminated soils

    Angela Sessitsch;Melanie Kuffner;Petra Kidd;Jaco Vangronsveld

  • Bacterial Communities Associated with Flowering Plants of the Ni Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi goesingense

    Rughia Idris;Radoslava Trifonova;Markus Puschenreiter;Walter W. Wenzel

  • Rhizosphere geometry and heterogeneity arising from root‐mediated physical and chemical processes

    Philippe Hinsinger;George R. Gobran;Peter J. Gregory;Walter W. Wenzel

  • Heavy metal accumulation in trees growing on contaminated sites in Central Europe.

    R. Unterbrunner;M. Puschenreiter;P. Sommer;G. Wieshammer

  • The Role of Metal Transport and Tolerance in Nickel Hyperaccumulation by Thlaspi goesingense Halacsy.

    Ute Krämer;Robert D. Smith;Walter W. Wenzel;Ilya Raskin

  • Rhizosphere characteristics of indigenously growing nickel hyperaccumulator and excluder plants on serpentine soil

    W.W Wenzel;M Bunkowski;M Puschenreiter;O Horak

  • Hydroponic screening for metal resistance and accumulation of cadmium and zinc in twenty clones of willows and poplars.

    Maria Noel Dos Santos Utmazian;Gerlinde Wieshammer;Rosa Vega;Walter W. Wenzel

  • Determination of trace elements bound to soil and sediment fractions (IUPAC Technical Report)

    József Hlavay;Thomas Prohaska;Márta Weisz;Walter W. Wenzel

  • Chelate-assisted phytoextraction using canola (Brassica napus L.) in outdoors pot and lysimeter experiments

    Walter W. Wenzel;Reinhard Unterbrunner;Peter Sommer;Pasqualina Sacco

  • Phosphorus saturation and pH differentially regulate the efficiency of organic acid anion-mediated P solubilization mechanisms in soil

    Eva Oburger;David L. Jones;Walter W. Wenzel

  • Accumulation of heavy metals in plants grown on mineralised soils of the Austrian Alps

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  • Fluorine speciation and mobility in F-contaminated soils

    Walter W. Wenzel;Winfried E. H. Blum

  • Rhizosphere characteristics of the arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata L. and monitoring of phytoremoval efficiency.

    Walter J Fitz;Walter W Wenzel;Hao Zhang;Johanna Nurmi

  • Interactive effects of organic acids in the rhizosphere

    Eva Oburger;Eva Oburger;Guy J.D. Kirk;Walter W. Wenzel;Markus Puschenreiter

  • Sequentially Extracted Arsenic from Different Size Fractions of Contaminated Soils

    E. Lombi;R. S. Sletten;W. W. Wenzel

  • Phytoextraction of Cd and Zn from agricultural soils by Salix ssp. and intercropping of Salix caprea and Arabidopsis halleri

    Gerlinde Wieshammer;Reinhard Unterbrunner;Teresa Bañares García;Michael F. Zivkovic

  • Trace Elements in the Rhizosphere

    George R. Gobran;Walter W. Wenzel;Enzo Lombi

  • Environmental Chemistry of Arsenic

    Walter J. Fitz;Walter W. Wenzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Puschenreiter
Markus Puschenreiter BOKU University
Eva Oburger
Eva Oburger BOKU University
Thomas Prohaska
Thomas Prohaska University of Leoben
Enzo Lombi
Enzo Lombi University of South Australia
Franz Zehetner
Franz Zehetner BOKU University
Domy C. Adriano
Domy C. Adriano University of Georgia
Stephan Hann
Stephan Hann BOKU University
Gerhard Soja
Gerhard Soja Austrian Institute of Technology
Andrea Schnepf
Andrea Schnepf Forschungszentrum Jülich
Angela Sessitsch
Angela Sessitsch Austrian Institute of Technology

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