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Researcher
Erik Smolders
- Disciplines:Soil sciences, challenges and pollution, Agriculture, land and farm management
Affiliations
- Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Faculty)
Responsible
From1 Aug 2023 → Today - Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Division of Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
41 - 50 of 62
- Phosphorus uptake of upland rice genotypes as affected by organic matter application in phosphorus deficient soils: a physiological and agronomic approachFrom15 Jun 2016 → 7 Jul 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Reuse of phosphorus from organic waste streams in agriculture - an experimental analysis of the sustainabilityFrom1 Jan 2016 → 19 Nov 2021Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Phosphate leaching in the excessively fertilised Flemish region: a geochemical and GIS approach.From1 Jan 2016 → 25 May 2020Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Colloidal iron as a nanovector in the environmentFrom1 Jan 2016 → 9 Sep 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The use of anionic clays (LDH) to recycle P from waste streamsFrom1 Jan 2016 → 4 Sep 2020Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Microbial and chemical food safety risks associated with the rearing of insectsFrom1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: Ministery of Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment
- New tools to detect mechanisms of enhanced tolerance to low soil phosphorus in rice.From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Colloidal Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for the REclamation of Toxic Metal Contaminated GROUNDwater Aquifers, Drinking Water Wells and River Bank Filtrations.From1 Sep 2015 → 31 Aug 2018Funding: H2020 - Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
- Environmental contamination with toxic metals in Katanga (DR Congo) and effects on public health.From10 Apr 2015 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- The availability of phosphorus in a soil phosphorus depleting scenarioFrom1 Oct 2013 → 13 Sep 2018Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
1 - 10 of 334
- The phosphorus saturation degree as a universal agronomic and environmental soil P test(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Pages: 385 - 404 - The economic costs of cadmium non-tariff measures for smallholder cocoa farmers in Ecuador(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders, Miet Maertens
Pages: 1147 - 1166 - Do contaminants compromise the use of recycled nutrients in organic agriculture? A review and synthesis of current knowledge on contaminant concentrations, fate in the environment and risk assessment(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
- Internal loading of phosphorus in streams described by a Sediment-Water Exchange Model for Phosphorus (SWEMP): From lab to field scale(2024)
Authors: Toon van Dael, Charlotte Vermeiren, Erik Smolders
- Extrapolating Metal (Cu, Ni, Zn) Toxicity from Individuals to Populations Across Daphnia Species Using Mechanistic Models: The Roles of Uncertainty Propagation and Combined Physiological Modes of Action(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Pages: 338 - 358 - Cadmium speciation in cacao beans changes during a fermentation-like incubation(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
- Accelerated weathering of silicate rock dusts predicts the slow-release liming in soils depending on rock mineralogy, soil acidity, and test methodology(2023)
Authors: Robrecht Van Der Bauwhede, Bart Muys, Karen Vancampenhout, Erik Smolders
- Transplacental transfer of cobalt: Evidence from a study of mothers and their neonates in the African Copperbelt(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders, Benoit Nemery de Bellevaux, Tim Nawrot
- Metal Mixture Toxicity of Ni, Cu, and Zn in Freshwater Algal Communities and the Correlation of Single-Species Sensitivities Among Single Metals: A Comparative Analysis(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Pages: 2666 - 2683 - Remediation of acid mine drainage and immobilization of rare earth elements: Comparison between natural and residual alkaline materials(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Patents
1 - 2 of 2
- Cadmium removal from cacao (Inventor)
- Cadmium removal from intact cacao beans after fermentation (Inventor)