Element Biogeochemistry and Human Health

Environmental Chemistry is a proud supporter of ICOBTE (International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements) held in Nanjing in May 2019. In keeping with the conference theme, 'Biogeochemistry of trace elements for improved environmental sustainability and human health', we are pleased to present this virtual issue containing a selection of recently published papers focusing on various aspects of trace element biogeochemistry and human health.

Kevin Francesconi

Published 05 April 2017

Studying selenium and sulfur volatilisation by marine algae Emiliania huxleyi and Thalassiosira oceanica in culture

Katja E. Luxem , Bas Vriens , Renata Behra and Lenny H. E. Winkel

Environmental Chemistry 14 (4) pp.199 - 206

Published 23 May 2018

The fate of arsenic in groundwater discharged to the Meghna River, Bangladesh

Michelle Berube , Katrina Jewell , Kimberly D. Myers , Peter S. K. Knappett , Pin Shuai , Abrar Hossain , Mehtaz Lipsi , Sadam Hossain , Alamgir Hossain , Jacqueline Aitkenhead-Peterson , Kazi M. Ahmed and Saugata Datta

Environmental Chemistry 15 (2) pp.29 - 45

Published 03 May 2018

On the nature of dissolved copper ligands in the early buoyant plume of hydrothermal vents

Laura Cotte , Dario Omanovic , Matthieu Waeles , Agathe Laës , Cécile Cathalot , Pierre-Marie Sarradin and Ricardo D. Riso

Environmental Chemistry 15 (2) pp.58 - 73

Published 26 June 2018

In-situ sampling of available calcium using diffusive gradients in thin-films technique based on benzo-crown ether-functionalised silica as the binding agent

Hui Yao , Nan You , Hong-Guang Cao , Li-Xia Kang , Jin-Bao Wu , Yu-Jie Zhao , Hong-Tao Fan and Yan-Li Yi

Environmental Chemistry 15 (4) pp.205 - 214

Published 24 August 2018

Magnesium binding by terrestrial humic acids

Iso Christl

Environmental Chemistry 15 (6) pp.317 - 324

Published 09 November 2018

Synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy reveals the response of Sphagnum cell wall material to its aqueous chemical environment

Ewen Silvester , Annaleise R. Klein , Kerry L. Whitworth , Ljiljana Puskar and Mark J. Tobin

Environmental Chemistry 15 (8) pp.513 - 521

Published 02 August 2018

Tuning the adsorption behaviour of β-structure chitosan by metal binding

Chunyan Ma , Fang Li , Caihua Wang , Miao He , Chensi Shen , Wolfgang Sand and Yanbiao Liu

Environmental Chemistry 15 (5) pp.267 - 277

Published 11 January 2017

Vanadate complexation to ferrihydrite: X-ray absorption spectroscopy and CD-MUSIC modelling

Maja A. Larsson , Ingmar Persson , Carin Sjöstedt and Jon Petter Gustafsson

Environmental Chemistry 14 (3) pp.141 - 150

Published 21 November 2016

Using fluorescence quenching combined with two-dimensional correlation fluorescence spectroscopy to characterise the binding-site heterogeneity of dissolved organic matter with copper and mercury in lake sediments

Xu-jing Guo , Yun-zhen Li , Yan-hong Feng and Dong-hai Yuan

Environmental Chemistry 14 (2) pp.91 - 98

Published 31 January 2018

Isolation and purification treatments change the metal-binding properties of humic acids: effect of HF/HCl treatment

Wander G. Botero , Michael Pineau , Noémie Janot , Rute F. Domingos , José Mariano , Luciana S. Rocha , Jan E. Groenenberg , Marc F. Benedetti and José P. Pinheiro

Environmental Chemistry 14 (7) pp.417 - 424

Published 22 January 2018

Kinetics of mercury accumulation by freshwater biofilms

Perrine Dranguet , Vera I. Slaveykova and Séverine Le Faucheur

Environmental Chemistry 14 (7) pp.458 - 467

Published 01 October 2018

Arsenic concentrations and speciation in Australian and imported rice and commercial rice products

William Maher , Elliott Duncan , Hayden Martin , Peter Snell , Frank Krikowa , Rajani Jagtap , Simon Foster , Tariq Ezaz and Michael J. Ellwood

Environmental Chemistry 15 (7) pp.387 - 402