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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
9062
World Ranking
6022
National Ranking
611

Best Publications

  • Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in global lakes: A review and meta-analysis.

    Yuyi Yang;Yuyi Yang;Wenjuan Song;Hui Lin;Weibo Wang

  • Plastics in the marine environment are reservoirs for antibiotic and metal resistance genes.

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  • Microplastics provide new microbial niches in aquatic environments

    Yuyi Yang;Wenzhi Liu;Zulin Zhang;Hans-Peter Grossart;Hans-Peter Grossart

  • Adsorption mechanism of cadmium on microplastics and their desorption behavior in sediment and gut environments: The roles of water pH, lead ions, natural organic matter and phenanthrene.

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  • Environmental fate of microplastics in the world's third-largest river: Basin-wide investigation and microplastic community analysis

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  • Microplastics are a hotspot for antibiotic resistance genes: Progress and perspective.

    Yi Liu;Wenzhi Liu;Xiaomei Yang;Jie Wang

  • Biosorption of Acid Black 172 and Congo Red from aqueous solution by nonviable Penicillium YW 01: kinetic study, equilibrium isotherm and artificial neural network modeling.

    Yuyi Yang;Guan Wang;Bing Wang;Zeli Li

  • Sources, Environmental Fate, and Ecological Risks of Antibiotics in Sediments of Asia’s Longest River: A Whole-Basin Investigation

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  • Evaluation of adsorption potential of bamboo biochar for metal-complex dye: equilibrium, kinetics and artificial neural network modeling

    Y. Yang;Y. Yang;X. Lin;B. Wei;Y. Zhao

  • Environmental adaptation is stronger for abundant rather than rare microorganisms in wetland soils from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

    Wenjie Wan;Geoffrey Michael Gadd;Geoffrey Michael Gadd;Yuyi Yang;Wenke Yuan

  • Antibiotic resistance genes in surface water of eutrophic urban lakes are related to heavy metals, antibiotics, lake morphology and anthropic impact

    Yuyi Yang;Chen Xu;Xinhua Cao;Hui Lin

  • Antibiotic resistance genes in lakes from middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China: Effect of land use and sediment characteristics

    Yuyi Yang;Wenzhi Liu;Chen Xu;Buqing Wei

  • Compost-bulking agents reduce the reservoir of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in manures by modifying bacterial microbiota.

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  • Stronger environmental adaptation of rare rather than abundant bacterioplankton in response to dredging in eutrophic Lake Nanhu (Wuhan, China).

    Wenjie Wan;Hans-Peter Grossart;Donglan He;Wenke Yuan

  • Bacterial community and climate change implication affected the diversity and abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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  • Uptake, translocation, and biological impacts of micro(nano)plastics in terrestrial plants: Progress and prospects

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  • Metagenomic insights into the abundance and composition of resistance genes in aquatic environments: Influence of stratification and geography.

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  • Concentrations, bioaccumulation, and human health risk assessment of organochlorine pesticides and heavy metals in edible fish from Wuhan, China

    Lili Cui;Jing Ge;Yindi Zhu;Yuyi Yang

  • Antibiotic and antibiotic resistance genes in freshwater aquaculture ponds in China: A meta-analysis and assessment

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  • Current advances in interactions between microplastics and dissolved organic matters in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

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Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Wang
Jun Wang South China Agricultural University
Geoffrey M. Gadd
Geoffrey M. Gadd University of Dundee
Zulin Zhang
Zulin Zhang James Hutton Institute
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Quanfa Zhang
Quanfa Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ji-Dong Gu
Ji-Dong Gu Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Qifa Zhou
Qifa Zhou University of Southern California
Yanguo Teng
Yanguo Teng Beijing Normal University
Siyue Li
Siyue Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
David E. Crowley
David E. Crowley University of California, Riverside

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