Sustainable Minerals Institute

Professor Guillaume Echevarria

Honorary Professor
CMLR
Professor Guillaume Echevarria

Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry at ENSAIA, Université de Lorraine

Research Activities

  • Definition and characterisation the availability of trace elements in soils (specialist of ultramafic soils).
  • Mechanisms involved in soil-to-plant transfer of trace elements (especially nickel).
    Mechanisms involved in metal hyperaccumulation and consequences on phytoextraction optimisation (use of X-ray absorption spectroscopy).
  • Survey of metal hyperaccumulator plants in ultramafic sites (Albania, Brazil, Greece, Indonesia, Malaisia, Mexico, N. Caledonia)
  • Phytomining / Agromining of Ni at the field scale, agronomic field trials (Albania, Greece, Malaysia, Spain)

Rehabilitation of Ni laterite mining sites with agromining systems for Ni recovery (Brazil, Cuba, Indonesia).

Responsibilities:
  • Leader of the phytoremediation research group of LSE (2013-2017), currently head of international relations at LSE (2018 on).
  • Elected Member of the Scientific Board of the Research Department OTELo at UL (2012-now), Member of the Scientific Board of the LABEX Ressources21 on Sustainable Mining at UL (2012-now), in charge of the transdisciplinary strategy.
  • UL co-Scientific coordinator of IRP SUCRE (2020-2024) between UL and SMI (University of Queensland).
  • Member of the scientific committee of International Conferences in Serpentine Ecology.
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Hazardous Materials (IF=9.0)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journals International Journal of Phytoremediation (IF = 2.3),  Ecological Research (IF = 1.7) and Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo (IF = 1.0)
  • Associate editor of the Journal of Hazardous Materials (IF = 9.0) and of the Albanian Journal of Agricultural Sciences.
  • Invited Associate Editor of Australian Journal of Botany (2015) and Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Research (2018) for special issues.
  • Leader (Scientific Coordinator) of the EU-funded ERA-NET FACCE-JPI SURPLUS project ‘Agronickel’ (2016-2019) involving 7 countries and 9 partners and of the EU-funded ‘LIFE AGROMINE’ project (2016-2021) involving 5 countries and 7 partners. Both projects represent a total funding of 2.3 M€
  • With 5 other colleagues from UL, he founded ‘ECONICK’ in August 2016, a start-up for the production of agromined metals with 6 full staff members on January 1st 2021.

Research Achievements

Prof. Guillaume Echevarria has published 139 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 15 book chapters; he has co-edited three research books including the current co-edition of the second version of a milestone book commissioned by SpringerNature: ‘Agromining: Farming for metals’ in partnership with colleagues from UQ and UL. He has a H-index of 33 (Web of Science) with over 3200 citations and of 41 (Google Scholar) with over 5200 citations. He has co-organised several symposia in the frame of International Conferences (ICOBTE). He is member of the permanent scientific board of the International Serpentine Ecology Society and co-organiser of the 2017 International Conference on Serpentine Ecology in Albania.

Research Impact

Prof. Guillaume Echevarria has developed world-class expertise in the field of the biogeochemistry of nickel in soil-plant environments. Working with the fate of radionuclides in the environment in the beginning of his career (including 63Ni, 99Tc and 238U), he pioneered the development of isotope dilution techniques (use of 63Ni as a tracer) in bioavailability studies of nickel in soil-plant systems. This tool (i.e. isotopic exchange kinetics) allowed proving that hyperaccumulator plants took up nickel from the same available pools as any other plant (non-accumulating species). More recently he developed, along with recognised stable isotope geochemists, new methods to understand nickel discrimination in ultramafic environmental processes. As such, he contributed to the first study in understanding nickel discrimination in hyperaccumulator plants from root uptake to litter decay in topsoils. With the help of such approaches, he targeted research in i) rhizosphere processes involved in nickel uptake by plants (with main focus on Ni-hyperaccumulator plants), in ii) the fate of Ni in the pedogenesis of ultramafic (i.e. serpentine) soils in temperate and tropical environments, and in iii) the ecophysiology of hyperaccumulator plants (in particular with the use of synchrotron techniques). On the applied side of his research, he is a pioneer in the agronomy of nickel agromining in Europe and participated in the setup of the first field trials in Europe and Southeast Asia. He now develops new research on ecosystem services provided by agromining systems in both temperate and tropical ultramafic environments.

He has co-organised four special symposia on serpentine ecology and agromining and has given three invited lectures at international conferences on phytomining. He organised a NATO Advanced Scientific Institute “Phytoremediation of metal-contaminated soils” in Trest (Czech Republic) for two weeks in August-September 2002 in which major scientists in the field participated. He later on co-edited a book with the same title (Springer) which was issued in 2006. He is member of the permanent scientific committee of the International Conference on Serpentine Ecology and was one of the two co-organisers of the last edition in Albania in June 2017 (9th ICSE). He was Section Editor (Soil Science) of the Scientific World Journal and is Associate Editor of the Albanian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. He was guest editor of the Northeastern Naturalist (2009), of Australian Journal of Botany (2014) and is currently the Invited Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Research (2017-2018). He was appointed in February 2021 Associate Editor of the Journal of Hazardous Materials, a top-ranked journal in Environmental Sciences.

Advancements to the research field

Prof. Echevarria has recognised world-class expertise on the use of radioactive isotopes in trace element biogeochemistry. He also has facilitated access to stable isotope performant tools (ICP-MS) (collaborations with Dr. Christophe Cloquet from the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques of the CNRS), to the services of Electron Microscopy of the Université de Lorraine (SEM/TEM-EDS, micro-probe) to the bench micro-XRF at LMOPS (UL). Together with collaborators he has undertaken experiments at the French Synchrotron in Paris – SOLEIL (collaborations with Dr. Valérie Briois – Principal scientist of the Samba Beamline) in Melbourne (Australian Synchrotron – Collaborations with Dr. Martin De Jonge) and in Hamburg (DESY – Collaborations with Dr. Kathryn Spiers) and at iThemba LABS for nuclear microprobe (micro-PIXE) techniques (Collaborations with Dr. Przybylowicz (iThemba, NRF, South Africa).

Prof. Echevarria speaks 6 languages fluently and this directly help him in building a strong research community around him in the field of phytomining and agromining. After 8 years of field research, he has taken the leadership in Europe in the field of agromining in 2013. With this goal, he started to build up a consortium of European partners who were already in the area or interested in implementing research in agromining. The consortium was created in 2014 and two projects were set to answer two European grant calls (ERA-NET FACCE SURPLUS in 2016, and LIFE ENVIRONMENT in 2015 and in 2016). Both projects were eventually selected and started in 2017. The amount of EU funding represents € 2.3 M and these two projects represent the major public funding of this topic up to now. The partners of the EU network in agromining are Agricultural University of Tirana (Albania), Eastern Macedonian and Thrace Institute of Technology (Greece), University for life sciences – BOKU (Austria), Centro Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain), Universita degli Studi di Firenze (Italy) and Jagellonian University (Poland).

In parallel with the establishment of a EU network, international collaborations outside EU were also sought via strong tights with two major partners: Dr. A. van der Ent and Prof. A.J.M. Baker, Honorary Professor at University of Queensland (and University of Melbourne) and Prof. R.L. Qiu from Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, PRC). Through the strong collaborations with these two partner institutions, Prof. Guillaume Echevarria has participated in federating the global Agromining community. In particular, he provided temporary positions for Dr. van der Ent and Prof. Baker at UL which allowed a strong global networking on the topic. Also, an international joint laboratory was created with Prof. Qiu (SYSU) to strengthen agromining research in China (nickel, cadmium, zinc and rare earth elements). The global network he contributed to establish also includes other partners (Cuba, USA, Canada, Brazil) in the fields of Biogeochemistry of trace elements in soils, ecosystem services rendered by polluted soils and agromining (phytomining). He is responsible for many international collaborative agreements with international partners at Université de Lorraine and he is the Head of International Affairs in his Department (Laboratoire Sols et Environnement).

In conclusion, the expertise and skills of Prof. Echevarria in nickel biogeochemistry of ultramafic environments, in nickel-hyperaccumulator ecophysiology, in stable and radioactive isotope geochemistry and in the agronomy of phytomining crops will ensure significant advising for the proposed research.

Five significant publications since the appointment of Honorary Professor at CMLR
(2018-2021):

[6] Agromining: Farming for metals. Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants. 2018. A. van der Ent, G. Echevarria, A.J.M. Baker & J.L. Morel. (Eds). Mineral Resources Series, Springer International Publishing AG. 312 pp.

This book is the compilation of the global state-of-the-art on agromining that was edited with three other colleagues who all are pioneers in the development of agromining globally (temperate areas and tropics). Chapters of this book have already been cited 162 times since it was published. A second augmented edition was prepared in 2020 and published in 2021.

[7] Reeves, R.D., Baker, A.J.M., Jaffré, T., Erskine, P.D., Echevarria, G., van der Ent, A. 2018. A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements. New Phytologist, 218, 407-411.

 This article is a seminal report of the current global knowledge of metal hyperaccumulator plants that has become viral. It reports the current figures and details the collaborative website that represents the unique database on the subject. This article has already been cited 121 times.

[8] Nkrumah, P.N., Tisserand, R., Chaney, R.L., Baker, A.J.M., Morel, J.L., Goudon, R., Erskine, P.D., Echevarria, G., van der Ent, A. 2019. The first tropical ‘metal farm’: some perspectives from field and pot experiments. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 198, 114–122.

This is the account of the first tropical agromining field trial globally. It was very recently issued and is the first corner stone to the development of nickel agromining in tropical regions, and in particular in Sabah (Malaysia). This article has already been cited 19 times.

[9] van der Ent, A., Pollard, A. J., Echevarria, G., Erskine, P.D. 2019. X-Ray Fluorescence Ionomics of Herbarium Collections. Scientific Reports, in press

This article is a landmark that explains the methodology of massive herbarium XRF scanning that has been developed between UQ and UL teams over the years and the main outcomes in two regions of the world : New Caledonia and Sabah (Malaysia). This article has already been cited 14 times.

[10] Navarrete Gutiérrez, D.M., Nkrumah, P.N., van der Ent, A., Pollard, A.J., Baker, A.J.M., Navarrete Torralba, F., Pons, M.N., Cuevas Sánchez, J.A., Gómez Hernández, T.,  Echevarria, G. 2021. The potential of Blepharidium guatemalense for nickel agromining in Mexico and Central America. International Journal of Phytoremediation, in press (DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2021.1881039)

This article reports the discovery of a new hyperaccumulator species thanks to XRF massive herbarium scaning and field exploration and the first agronomic trials to evaluate the potential of this tree for the implementation for nickel agromining in Central America. It is a typical example of the methodology developed in common between the teams at UL and UQ, which makes ‘SUCRE’ the leading team globally in metal agromining.

Publications

Book Chapters (5)
Journal Articles (44)

Book Chapters

Morel, Jean Louis, Simonnot, Marie-Odile, Echevarria, Guillaume, Antony van der Ent and Baker, Alan J. M. (2020). Conclusions and outlook for agromining. Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources from plantstals. (pp. 485-489) edited by Antony van der Ent, Alan J. M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, Marie-Odile Simonnot and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2_25
Purwadi, Imam, Gei, Vidiro, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria , Guillaume, Mesjasz-Przybyłowicz, Jolanta, Przybyłowicz, Wojciech J. and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the herbarium. Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources from plants. (pp. 183-195) edited by Antony van der Ent, Alan J. M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, Marie-Odile Simonnot and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2_9
Nkrumah, Philip N., Gutiérrez, Dulce Navarrete, Tisserand, Romane, van der Ent, Antony, Echevarria, Guillaume, Pollard, A. Joseph, Chaney, Rufus L. and Morel, Jean Louis (2020). Element case studies: nickel (tropical regions). Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources from plants. (pp. 365-383) edited by Antony van der Ent, Alan J.M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, Marie-Odile Simonnot and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2_17
van der Ent, Antony, Pollard, A. Joseph, Echevarria, Guillaume, Abubakari, Farida, Erskine, Peter D., Baker, Alan J. M. and Reeves, Roger D. (2020). Exceptional uptake and accumulation of chemical elements in plants: extending the hyperaccumulation paradigm. Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources from plants. (pp. 99-131) edited by Antony van der Ent, Alan J. M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, Marie-Odile Simonnot and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2_6
van der Ent, Antony, Echevarria, Guillaume, Baker, Alan J. M. and Morel, Jean Louis (2018). Agromining: farming for metals extracting unconventional resources using plants preface. Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources using plants. (pp. V-VI) edited by Antony Van der Ent, Guillaume Echevarria, Alan J. M. Baker and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Journal Articles

Kanso, Ali, Benizri, Emile, Azoury, Sabine, Echevarria, Guillaume and Sirguey, Catherine (2023). Maximizing trace metal phytoextraction through planting methods: role of rhizosphere fertility and microbial activities. Chemosphere, 340 139833. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139833
Jakovljević, Ksenija, Mišljenović, Tomica, van der Ent, Antony, Baker, Alan J. M., Andrejić, Gordana, Tomović, Gordana and Echevarria, Guillaume (2023). Zinc (hyper)accumulation in Cardamine waldsteinii: from discovery in the herbarium to validation in the field. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, 157 (4), 851-857. doi: 10.1080/11263504.2023.2204318
Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2022). Farming for battery metals. Science of the Total Environment, 827 154092, 154092. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154092
Abubakari, Farida, Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Fernando, Denise R., Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2022). Manganese accumulation and tissue-level distribution in the Australian hyperaccumulator Gossia Bidwillii (Myrtaceae). Tropical Plant Biology, 15 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s12042-021-09307-1
Andrade, Leide R. M., Aquino, Fabiana G., Echevarria, Guillaume, Oliveira, Jamile S., Pereira, Cícero D., Malaquias, Juaci V., Souza, Karina S., Montargès-Pelletier, Emmanuelle, Faleiro, Fábio G., Reis Junior, Fábio B., Miranda, Zenilton G., Sano, Edson E. and do Amaral, Lourdes Isabel Velho (2022). Edaphic factors as genetic selection agents and adaptation drivers of native plant species in harsh environments of the Brazilian savanna. Plant and Soil, 479 (1-2), 301-323. doi: 10.1007/s11104-022-05520-3
Jakovljević, Ksenija, Bani, Aida, Pavlova, Dolja, Konstantinou, Maria, Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G., Kyrkas, Dimitris, Reeves, Roger D., Mišljenović, Tomica, Tomović, Gordana, van der Ent, Antony, Baker, Alan J. M., Andonovska, Katerina Bačeva, Morel, Jean-Louis and Echevarria, Guillaume (2022). Hyperaccumulator plant discoveries in the Balkans: accumulation, distribution, and practical applications. Botanica Serbica, 46 (2), 161-178. doi: 10.2298/BOTSERB2202161J
Tisserand, Romane, Nkrumah, Philip Nti, van der Ent, Antony, Sumail, Sukaibin, Zeller, Bernhard and Echevarria, Guillaume (2022). Biogeochemical cycling of nickel and nutrients in a natural high-density stand of the hyperaccumulator Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi in Sabah, Malaysia. Chemoecology, 32 (1), 15-29. doi: 10.1007/s00049-021-00363-3
Belloeil, Célestine, Jouannais, Pierre, Malfaisan, Charles, Reyes Fernández, Rolando, Lopez, Severine, Navarrete Gutierrez, Dulce Montserrat, Maeder-Pras, Swann, Villanueva, Paola, Tisserand, Romane, Gallopin, Melina, Alfonso-Gonzalez, Dubiel, Fuentes Marrero, Ilsa M., Muller, Serge, Invernon, Vanessa, Pillon, Yohan, Echevarria, Guillaume, Berazaín Iturralde, Rosalina and Merlot, Sylvain (2021). The X-ray fluorescence screening of multiple elements in herbarium specimens from the Neotropical region reveals new records of metal accumulation in plants. Metallomics, 13 (8) mfab045. doi: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfab045
Paul, Adrian L. D., Isnard, Sandrine, Wawryk, Christine M., Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume, Baker, Alan J. M., Kirby, Jason K and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Intensive cycling of nickel in a New Caledonian forest dominated by hyperaccumulator trees. The Plant Journal, 107 (4), 1040-1055. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15362
Abubakari, Farida, Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Erskine, Peter D., Brown, Gillian K., Fernando, Denise R., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Manganese (hyper)accumulation within Australian Denhamia (Celastraceae): an assessment of the trait and manganese accumulation under controlled conditions. Plant and Soil, 463 (1-2), 205-223. doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-04833-z
Liu, Wen-Shen, Laird, Jamie S, Ryan, Chris G, Tang, Ye-Tao, Qiu, Rong-Liang, Echevarria, Guillaume, Morel, Jean-Louis and van der Ent, Antony (2021). Rare earth elements, aluminium and silicon distribution in the fern Dicranopteris linearis revealed by μPIXE Maia analysis. Annals of Botany, 128 (1), 17-30. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcab026
Montserrat Navarrete Gutiérrez, Dulce, Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Antony van der Ent, Pollard, Joseph, Baker, Alan J. M., Torralba, Francisco Navarrete, Pons, Marie-Noëlle, Axayacatl Cuevas Sánchez, Jesús, Gómez Hernández, Teodoro and Echevarria, Guillaume (2021). The potential of Blepharidium guatemalense for nickel agromining in Mexico and Central America. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 23 (11), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/15226514.2021.1881039
Navarrete Gutiérrez, Dulce Montserrat, Pollard, A. Joseph, van der Ent, Antony, Cathelineau, Michel, Pons, Marie-Noëlle, Cuevas Sánchez, Jesús A. and Echevarria, Guillaume (2021). Blepharidium guatemalense, an obligate nickel hyperaccumulator plant from non-ultramafic soils in Mexico. Chemoecology, 31 (3), 169-187. doi: 10.1007/s00049-021-00338-4
Tisserand, Romane , van der Ent, Antony , Nti Nkrumah, Philip , Sumail, Sukaibin and Echevarria, Guillaume (2021). Improving tropical nickel agromining crop systems: the effects of chemical and organic fertilisation on nickel yield. Plant and Soil, 465 (1-2), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04785-w
Coppi, Andrea, Baker, Alan J. M., Bettarini, Isabella, Colzi, Ilaria, Echevarria, Guillaume, Pazzagli, Luigia, Gonnelli, Cristina and Selvi, Federico (2020). Population genetics of odontarrhena (Brassicaceae) from albania: The effects of anthropic habitat disturbance, soil, and altitude on a nihyperaccumulator plant group from a major serpentine hotspot. Plants, 9 (12) 1686, 1-27. doi: 10.3390/plants9121686
Lopez, Séverine , Nti Nkrumah, Philip , Echevarria, Guillaume , Benizri, Emile and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Bacterial community diversity and functional roles in the rhizospheres of Rinorea cf. bengalensis and Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi under a nickel concentration gradient. Plant and Soil, 459 (1-2), 343-355. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04763-2
Gei, Vidiro, Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D., Isnard, Sandrine, Fogliani, Bruno, Montargès-Pelletier, Emmanuelle, Jaffré, Tanguy, Spiers, Kathryn M., Garrevoet, Jan and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Soil chemistry, elemental profiles and elemental distribution in nickel hyperaccumulator species from New Caledonia. Plant and Soil, 457 (1-2), 293-320. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04714-x
Isnard, Sandrine , L’Huillier, Laurent , Paul, Adrian L. D. , Munzinger, Jerome , Fogliani, Bruno , Echevarria, Guillaume , Peter D. Erskine, Vidiro Gei, Tanguy Jaffre and Antony van der Ent (2020). Novel insights into the hyperaccumulation syndrome in Pycnandra (Sapotaceae). Frontiers in Plant Science, 11 559059, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.559059
Rue, Marie, Paul, Adrian L. D., Echevarria, Guillaume, van der Ent, Antony, Simonnot, Marie-Odile and Morel, Jean Louis (2020). Uptake, translocation and accumulation of nickel and cobalt in Berkheya coddii, a 'metal crop' from South Africa. Metallomics, 12 (8), 1278-1289. doi: 10.1039/d0mt00099j
van der Ent, Antony, Echevarria, Guillaume, Nkrumah, Philip Nti and Erskine, Peter D. (2020). Frequency distribution of foliar nickel is bimodal in the ultramafic flora of Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia). Annals of Botany, 126 (6), 1017-1027. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa119
Paul, Adrian L. D. , Gei, Vidiro , Isnard, Sandrine, Fogliani, Bruno , Echevarria, Guillaume , Erskine, Peter D. , Jaffré, Tanguy , Munzinger, Jérôme and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Nickel hyperaccumulation in New Caledonian Hybanthus (Violaceae) and occurrence of nickel-rich phloem in Hybanthus austrocaledonicus. Annals of Botany, 126 (5), 905-914. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa112
Paul, Adrian L. D., Harris, Hugh H., Erskine, Peter D., Przybyłowicz, Wojciech, Mesjasz-Przybyłowicz, Jolanta, Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Synchrotron µXRF imaging of live seedlings of Berkheya coddii and Odontarrhena muralis during germination and seedling growth. Plant and Soil, 453 (1-2), 487-501. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04591-4
Quintela-Sabarís, Celestino, Faucon, Michel-Pierre, Repin, Rimi, Sugau, John B., Nilus, Reuben, Echevarria, Guillaume and Leguédois, Sophie (2020). Plant functional traits on tropical ultramafic habitats affected by fire and mining: Insights for reclamation. Diversity, 12 (6) 248. doi: 10.3390/D12060248
Gei, Vidiro, Isnard, Sandrine, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume, Fogliani, Bruno, Jaffré, Tanguy and van der Ent, Antony (2020). A systematic assessment of the occurrence of trace element hyperaccumulation in the flora of New Caledonia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 194 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1093/botlinnean/boaa029
Lopez, Séverine, van der Ent, Antony, Sumail, Sukaibin, Sugau, John B., Buang, Matsain Mohd, Amin, Zarina, Echevarria, Guillaume, Morel, Jean Louis and Benizri, Emile (2020). Bacterial community diversity in the rhizosphere of nickel hyperaccumulator plant species from Borneo Island (Malaysia). Environmental Microbiology, 22 (4) 1462-2920.14970, 1649-1665. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14970
Corzo Remigio, Amelia, Chaney, Rufus L., Baker, Alan J. M., Edraki, Mansour, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Phytoextraction of high value elements and contaminants from mining and mineral wastes: opportunities and limitations. Plant and Soil, 449 (1-2), 11-37. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04487-3
Liu, Wenshen, van der Ent, Antony, Erskine, Peter D., Morel, Jean-Louis, Echevarria, Guillaume, Spiers, Kathryn M., Montarges-Pelletier, Emmanuelle Sophie, Qiu, Rong-Liang and Tang, Ye-Tao (2020). Spatially-resolved localization of lanthanum and cerium in the rare earth element hyperaccumulator fern Dicranopteris linearis from China. Environmental Science & Technology, 54 (4) acs.est.9b05728, 2287-2294. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05728
McCartha, Grace L., Taylor, Charlotte M., van der Ent, Antony, Echevarria, Guillaume, Navarrete Gutiérrez, Dulce M. and Pollard, A. Joseph (2019). Phylogenetic and geographic distribution of nickel hyperaccumulation in neotropical Psychotria. American Journal of Botany, 106 (10) ajb2.1362, 1377-1385. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1362
Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Tisserand, Romane, Chaney, Rufus L., Baker, Alan J.M., Morel, Jean Louis, Goudon, Romain, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2019). The first tropical ‘metal farm’: some perspectives from field and pot experiments. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 198, 114-122. doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2018.12.003
Lopez, Séverine, van der Ent, Antony, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume, Morel, Jean Louis, Lee, Gavin, Permana, Edi and Benizri, Emile (2019). Rhizosphere chemistry and above-ground elemental fractionation of nickel hyperaccumulator species from Weda Bay (Indonesia). Plant and Soil, 436 (1-2), 543-563. doi: 10.1007/s11104-019-03954-w
Mišljenović, Tomica, Jovanović, Slobodan, Mihailović, Nevena, Gajić, Boško, Tomović, Gordana, Baker, Alan J. M., Echevarria, Guillaume and Jakovljević, Ksenija (2019). Natural variation of nickel, zinc and cadmium (hyper)accumulation in facultative serpentinophytes Noccaea kovatsii and N. praecox. Plant and Soil, 447 (1-2), 475-495. doi: 10.1007/s11104-019-04402-5
van der Ent, Antony, Spiers, Kathryn M., Brueckner, Dennis, Echevarria, Guillaume, Aarts, Mark G. M. and Montargès-Pelletier, Emmanuelle (2019). Spatially-resolved localization and chemical speciation of nickel and zinc in Noccaea tymphaea and Bornmuellera emarginata. Metallomics, 11 (12), 2052-2065. doi: 10.1039/c9mt00106a
Lopez, Séverine, Goux, Xavier, van der Ent, Antony, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume, Calusinska, Magdalena, Morel, Jean Louis and Benizri, Emile (2018). Bacterial community diversity in the rhizosphere of nickel hyperaccumulator species of Halmahera Island (Indonesia). Applied Soil Ecology, 133, 70-80. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2018.09.007
Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2018). Contrasting nickel and zinc hyperaccumulation in subspecies of Dichapetalum gelonioides from Southeast Asia. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 9659, 9659. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-26859-7
Tashakor, Mahsa, Modabberi, Soroush, van der Ent, Antony and Echevarria, Guillaume (2018). Impacts of ultramafic outcrops in Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah on soil and water quality. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 190 (333) 333, 333. doi: 10.1007/s10661-018-6668-5
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Bouman, Roderick, van Welzen, Peter, Sumail, Sukaibin, Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2018). Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi: a new nickel hyperaccumulator from Sabah (Borneo Island) with potential for tropical agromining. Botanical Studies, 59 (9) 9, 9. doi: 10.1186/s40529-018-0225-y
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Nkrumah, Philip N., Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2017). Nickel hyperaccumulation in Antidesma montis-silam: from herbarium discovery to collection in the native habitat. Ecological Research, 33 (3), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s11284-017-1542-4
Lange, Bastien, van der Ent, Antony, Baker, Alan John Martin, Echevarria, Guillaume, Mahy, Grégory, Malaisse, François, Meerts, Pierre, Pourret, Olivier, Verbruggen, Nathalie and Faucon, Michel-Pierre (2016). Copper and cobalt accumulation in plants: a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge. New Phytologist, 213 (2), 537-551. doi: 10.1111/nph.14175
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van der Ent, Antony, Echevarria, Guillaume and Tibbett, Mark (2016). Delimiting soil chemistry thresholds for nickel hyperaccumulator plants in Sabah (Malaysia). Chemoecology, 26 (2), 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s00049-016-0209-x
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