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Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members in Section Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 5275

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State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China
Interests: biogeochemical cycling of heavy metals in the environment and health impacts; non-traditional stable isotope geochemistry; remediation of heavy metal contaminated environment

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Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Section "Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology", I am pleased to announce this Collection titled “Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members in Section ‘Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology’”. This issue will be a collection of papers from our Section Editorial Board Members. The aim is to provide a venue for networking and communication between IJERPH and scholars in the field of environmental health. All papers will be published with fully open access after peer review.

Prof. Dr. Xinbin Feng
Guest Editor

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Potential to Reduce Chemical Fertilizer Application in Tea Plantations at Various Spatial Scales
by Shaowen Xie, Fen Yang, Hanxiao Feng, Zhenzhen Yu, Xinghu Wei, Chengshuai Liu and Chaoyang Wei
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(9), 5243; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph19095243 - 26 Apr 2022
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Tea is the main commercial crop grown in China, and excessive application of chemical fertilizers in tea plantations is common. However, the potential to reduce chemical fertilizer use in tea plantations is unclear. In this study, Zhejiang Province was selected as the research [...] Read more.
Tea is the main commercial crop grown in China, and excessive application of chemical fertilizers in tea plantations is common. However, the potential to reduce chemical fertilizer use in tea plantations is unclear. In this study, Zhejiang Province was selected as the research object to systematically analyze the potential for tea plantation chemical-fertilizer reduction at different spatial scales. The geographic information system-based analytic hierarchy process method and Soil and Water Assessment Tool model were used to determine the chemical fertilizer reduction potential at the province scale and watershed scale, respectively. At the field scale, two consecutive years of field experiments were conducted on a tea plantation. Province-level analysis showed that 51.7% of the area had an average total fertilization intensity greater than 350 kg/hm2 and a high reduction potential. Watershed analysis revealed that chemical fertilizer reduction had better potential in reducing total nitrogen and total phosphorus inputs to runoff in the short term, whereas 50% organic fertilizer substitution was the best strategy to achieve long-term effects. The field experiments further proved that organic fertilizer substitution balanced tea growth and environmental protection. This study provides a useful method to investigate strategies to reduce chemical fertilizer use in tea-growing areas. Full article
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Transport of Veterinary Antibiotics in Farmland Soil: Effects of Dissolved Organic Matter
by Lanre Anthony Gbadegesin, Xiangyu Tang, Chen Liu and Jianhua Cheng
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(3), 1702; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph19031702 - 02 Feb 2022
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The application of manure as a fertiliser to farmland is regarded as a major source of veterinary antibiotic (VA) contamination in the environment. The frequent detection of such emerging contaminants and their potential adverse impacts on the ecosystem and human health have provoked [...] Read more.
The application of manure as a fertiliser to farmland is regarded as a major source of veterinary antibiotic (VA) contamination in the environment. The frequent detection of such emerging contaminants and their potential adverse impacts on the ecosystem and human health have provoked increasing concern for VA transport and fate. Extrinsic dissolved organic matter (DOM) may be introduced into farmland soil along with Vas, and thus exert significant effects on the transport of VAs via hydrological processes upon rainfall. The leaching of VAs can be either enhanced or reduced by DOM, depending on the nature, mobility, and interactions of VAs with DOM of different origins. From the aspect of the diversity and reactivity of DOM, the state-of-the-art knowledge of DOM−VA interactions and their resulting effects on the sorption−desorption and leaching of VAs in farmland soil was reviewed. Spectroscopic techniques for examining the extent of binding and reactive components of DOM with VAs are summarized and their usefulness is highlighted. Models for simulating VA transport under the effects of DOM were also reviewed. It is suggested that distinct impacts of DOM of various organic fertiliser/amendment origins should be considered for predicting the transport of VAs in farmland soil. Full article
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