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Overview

Wilfred F. M. Röling was affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focused primarily on environmental science with contributions across several subfields, including pollution, environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, and biochemistry.

The scientist worked extensively on topics related to wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial community ecology and physiology, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, arsenic contamination and mitigation, chromium effects and bioremediation, mine drainage and remediation techniques, and microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants.

Röling's published papers documented studies on microbial processes and environmental contamination. Recent notable publications included:

  • High biodiversity in a benzene-degrading nitrate-reducing culture is sustained by a few primary consumers (2021) in Communications Biology
  • Microbes-Assisted Arsenate Reduction Activity in Bangladesh Drinking Water Wells as Revealed by Enrichment Cultivation (2022) in Geomicrobiology Journal
  • Correlating biodegradation kinetics of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin to the dynamics of microbial communities originating from soil in Vietnam contaminated with herbicides and dioxins (2022) in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Author Correction: High biodiversity in a benzene-degrading nitrate-reducing culture is sustained by a few primary consumers (2021) in Communications Biology

Throughout their career, Röling collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Martin Braster, Bernd W. Brandt, Rob J. M. van Spanning, Chrats Melkonian, and Lucas Fillinger.

Publications by Röling appeared predominantly in the journals Communications Biology, Geomicrobiology Journal, and Frontiers in Microbiology, reflecting a focus on microbiological and environmental research.

Best Publications

  • Marine microorganisms make a meal of oil

    I.M. Head;D.M. Jones;W.F.M. Roling

  • Robust hydrocarbon degradation and dynamics of bacterial communities during nutrient-enhanced oil spill bioremediation.

    Wilfred F. M. Röling;Michael G. Milner;D. Martin Jones;Kenneth Lee

  • Positive effects of organic farming on below-ground mutualists: large-scale comparison of mycorrhizal fungal communities in agricultural soils

    Erik Verbruggen;Wilfred F. M. Röling;Hannes A. Gamper;George A. Kowalchuk

  • Resilience of Soil Microbial Communities to Metals and Additional Stressors: DNA-Based Approaches for Assessing "Stress-on-Stress" Responses.

    Hamed Azarbad;Cornelis A. M. Van Gestel;Maria Niklińska;Ryszard Laskowski

  • Relationships between microbial community structure and hydrochemistry in a landfill leachate-polluted aquifer.

    W.F.M. Roling;B.M. van Breukelen;M. Braster;B. Lin

  • Bacterial community dynamics and hydrocarbon degradation during a field-scale evaluation of bioremediation on a mudflat beach contaminated with buried oil.

    Wilfred F. M. Röling;Michael G. Milner;D. Martin Jones;Francesco Fratepietro

  • Community assembly, species richness and nestedness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural soils

    Erik Verbruggen;Marcel G. A. Van Der Heijden;Marcel G. A. Van Der Heijden;James T. Weedon;George A. Kowalchuk

  • The microbiology of hydrocarbon degradation in subsurface petroleum reservoirs: perspectives and prospects.

    Wilfred F.M. Röling;Ian M. Head;Steve R. Larter

  • Community Flux Balance Analysis for Microbial Consortia at Balanced Growth

    Ruchir A. Khandelwal;Brett G. Olivier;Brett G. Olivier;Wilfred F. M. Röling;Wilfred F. M. Röling;Bas Teusink;Bas Teusink

  • Summer warming accelerates sub-arctic peatland nitrogen cycling without changing enzyme pools or microbial community structure

    James T. Weedon;George A. Kowalchuk;Rien Aerts;Jurgen van Hal

  • Microbial community composition and functions are resilient to metal pollution along two forest soil gradients

    Hamed Azarbad;Maria Niklińska;Ryszard Laskowski;Nico M. van Straalen

  • A strictly anaerobic betaproteobacterium Georgfuchsia toluolica gen. nov., sp. nov. degrades aromatic compounds with Fe(III), Mn(IV) or nitrate as an electron acceptor

    Sander A.B. Weelink;Wim Van Doesburg;Flávia Talarico Saia;Flávia Talarico Saia;W. Irene C. Rijpstra

  • Anaerobic biodegradation of crude oil under sulphate-reducing conditions leads to only modest enrichment of recognized sulphate-reducing taxa

    Angela Sherry;Neil D. Gray;Arlene Ditchfield;Caroline Aitken

  • Low Nitrification Rates in Acid Scots Pine Forest Soils Are Due to pH-Related Factors

    R. A. Nugroho;Wilfred F. M. Röling;Anniet M. Laverman;H. A. Verhoef

  • Microbial community structure and functioning along metal pollution gradients

    Hamed Azarbad;Maria Niklińska;Cornelis A.M. van Gestel;Nico M. van Straalen

  • Biogeochemistry and isotope geochemistry of a landfill leachate plume

    Boris M. van Breukelen;Wilfred F.M. Röling;Jacobus Groen;Jasper Griffioen

  • Natural attenuation: What does the subsurface have in store?

    Wilfred F.M. Röling;Henk W. van Verseveld

  • Reactive transport modelling of biogeochemical processes and carbon isotope geochemistry inside a landfill leachate plume

    Boris M van Breukelen;Jasper Griffioen;Wilfred F.M Röling;Henk W van Verseveld

  • Analysis of microbial communities in a landfill leachate polluted aquifer using a new method for anaerobic physiological profiling and 16S rDNA based fingerprinting

    W.F.M. Röling;B.M. van Breukelen;M. Braster;M.T. Goeltom

  • Systems approaches to microbial communities and their functioning.

    Wilfred F M Röling;Manuel Ferrer;Peter N Golyshin

  • Phylogenetic and physiological diversity of dissimilatory ferric iron reducers in sediments of the polluted Scheldt estuary, Northwest Europe.

    Bin Lin;Christelle Hyacinthe;Steeve Bonneville;Martin Braster

  • Subsurface Microbiology and Biogeochemistry

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Frequent Co-Authors

Nico M. van Straalen
Nico M. van Straalen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hans V. Westerhoff
Hans V. Westerhoff Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ian M. Head
Ian M. Head Newcastle University
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden University of Zurich
George A. Kowalchuk
George A. Kowalchuk Utrecht University
Richard C. Quinn
Richard C. Quinn Ames Research Center
Mark A. Sephton
Mark A. Sephton Imperial College London
Steve Larter
Steve Larter University of Calgary
Erik Verbruggen
Erik Verbruggen University of Antwerp
Hauke Smidt
Hauke Smidt Wageningen University & Research

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