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Xuewu Fu is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, specializing in environmental science. Their work is concentrated predominantly in the areas of health, toxicology, and mutagenesis, with significant contributions to pollution studies, ecology, atmospheric science, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their research covers several main topics, including mercury impact and mitigation studies, toxic organic pollutants, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, heavy metals in the environment, air quality and health impacts, isotope analysis in ecology, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Xuewu Fu has published extensively, with key papers highlighting their focus on mercury and environmental contamination. Notable recent publications include:

  • Mass-Independent Fractionation of Even and Odd Mercury Isotopes during Atmospheric Mercury Redox Reactions, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Underestimated Sink of Atmospheric Mercury in a Deglaciated Forest Chronosequence, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Global airborne bacterial community-interactions with Earth's microbiomes and anthropogenic activities, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mercury pollution in China: implications on the implementation of the Minamata Convention, 2022, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Isotopic Fractionation and Source Appointment of Methylmercury and Inorganic Mercury in a Paddy Ecosystem, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

The researcher has frequently published in several scientific venues, with the majority of publications appearing in Environmental Science & Technology. Other venues include Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, The Science of The Total Environment, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Xuewu Fu collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors, including Xinbin Feng, Leiming Zhang, Kaihui Tang, Qianwen Deng, and Hui Zhang, reflecting a strong network within their research community.

  • Xinbin Feng
  • Leiming Zhang
  • Kaihui Tang
  • Qianwen Deng
  • Hui Zhang

Best Publications

  • Human exposure to methylmercury through rice intake in mercury mining areas, Guizhou province, China.

    Xinbin Feng;Ping Li;Guangle Qiu;Shaofeng Wang

  • Methylmercury accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown at abandoned mercury mines in Guizhou, China.

    Guangle Qiu;Xinbin Feng;Ping Li;Shaofeng Wang

  • Mercury in the marine boundary layer and seawater of the South China Sea: Concentrations, sea/air flux, and implication for land outflow

    Xuewu Fu;Xinbin Feng;Gan Zhang;Weihai Xu;Weihai Xu

  • Atmospheric Mercury Transfer to Peat Bogs Dominated by Gaseous Elemental Mercury Dry Deposition.

    Maxime Enrico;Gaël Le Roux;Nicolas Marusczak;Lars-Eric Heimbürger

  • Atmospheric mercury concentrations observed at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed in the framework of the GMOS network

    Francesca Sprovieri;Nicola Pirrone;Mariantonia Bencardino;Francesco D'Amore

  • Atmospheric mercury inputs in montane soils increase with elevation: evidence from mercury isotope signatures

    Hua Zhang;Run-sheng Yin;Xin-bin Feng;Jonas Sommar

  • A review of studies on atmospheric mercury in China

    Xuewu Fu;Xinbin Feng;Jonas Sommar;Shaofeng Wang

  • Observations of atmospheric mercury in China: a critical review

    X. W. Fu;H. Zhang;B. Yu;X. Wang

  • Atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) concentrations and mercury depositions at a high-altitude mountain peak in south China

    X. W. Fu;X. Feng;Z. Q. Dong;R. S. Yin

  • Temporal trend and sources of speciated atmospheric mercury at Waliguan GAW station, Northwestern China

    X. W. Fu;X. Feng;P. Liang;Deliger

  • Total gaseous mercury concentrations in ambient air in the eastern slope of Mt. Gongga, South-Eastern fringe of the Tibetan plateau, China

    Xuewu Fu;Xinbin Feng;Wanze Zhu;Shaofeng Wang

  • Mass-Dependent and -Independent Fractionation of Mercury Isotope during Gas-Phase Oxidation of Elemental Mercury Vapor by Atomic Cl and Br.

    Guangyi Sun;Jonas Sommar;Xinbin Feng;Che-Jen Lin

  • Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Mercury in China: New Evidence for Sources and Transformation Processes in Air and in Vegetation.

    Ben Yu;Xuewu Fu;Runsheng Yin;Hui Zhang

  • Speciated atmospheric mercury and its potential source in Guiyang, China

    Xuewu Fu;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Lihai Shang

  • Measure-Specific Effectiveness of Air Pollution Control on China's Atmospheric Mercury Concentration and Deposition during 2013-2017.

    Kaiyun Liu;Qingru Wu;Long Wang;Shuxiao Wang

  • Isotopic Composition of Gaseous Elemental Mercury in the Free Troposphere of the Pic du Midi Observatory, France.

    Xuewu Fu;Xuewu Fu;Nicolas Marusczak;Xun Wang;François Gheusi

  • Characteristics of mercury exchange flux between soil and air in the heavily air-polluted area, eastern Guizhou, China

    Shaofeng Wang;Xinbin Feng;Guangle Qiu;Xuewu Fu

  • Elevated atmospheric deposition and dynamics of mercury in a remote upland forest of southwestern China.

    Xuewu Fu;Xinbin Feng;Wanze Zhu;S. Rothenberg

  • Global observations and modeling of atmosphere–surface exchange of elemental mercury: a critical review

    Wei Zhu;Wei Zhu;Che-Jen Lin;Che-Jen Lin;Xun Wang;Jonas Sommar

  • Mercury distribution and speciation in water and fish from abandoned Hg mines in Wanshan, Guizhou province, China

    Guangle Qiu;Xinbin Feng;Shaofeng Wang;Xuewu Fu

  • Five-year records of mercury wet deposition flux at GMOS sites in the Northern and Southern hemispheres

    Francesca Sprovieri;Nicola Pirrone;Mariantonia Bencardino;Francesco D'Amore

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Che-Jen Lin
Che-Jen Lin Lamar University
Lihai Shang
Lihai Shang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xun Wang
Xun Wang Tsinghua University
Guangle Qiu
Guangle Qiu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Runsheng Yin
Runsheng Yin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jeroen E. Sonke
Jeroen E. Sonke Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jonas Sommar
Jonas Sommar Chinese Academy of Sciences
Leiming Zhang
Leiming Zhang Environment and Climate Change Canada
Lu Shang
Lu Shang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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