Scientific research

Scientific pages:

The total budget of national and international research projects coordinated: 2483405 Euro.

Ten representative scientific results:

Iordache, V., Neagoe, A., 2023. Conceptual methodological framework for the resilience of biogeochemical services to heavy metals stress. J Environ Manage 325, 116401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116401

Aligică Paul Dragoș, Virgil Iordache, 2023, Comparative Economic Systems and the Issue of Resilience, in “The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems”, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, DOI 10.4324/9781003144366-8

Iordache V., 2020, On the possibility of accelerating succession by manipulating soil microorganisms, in Plant microbiome paradigm (eds. Varma, A., Tripathi, S., Prassad, R.) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 191-230, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50395-6_11

Manu M., Honciuc V., Neagoe A., Băncilă R. I., Iordache V., Onete M., 2019, Soil mite communities (Acari: Mesostigmata, Oribatida) as bioindicators for environmental conditions from polluted soils, Scientific Reports, 9, 20259, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56700-8

Constantinescu P., Neagoe A., Nicoară A., Grawunder A., Ion S., Onete M., Iordache V., 2019, Implications of spatial heterogeneity of tailing material and time scale of vegetation growth processes for the design of phytostabilisation, Science of The Total Environment, 692, 1057-1069,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.299

Ion S., Marinescu D, Cruceanu S.D, Iordache V., 2014, A data porting tool for coupling models with different discretization needs, Environmental Software and Modelling, 62, 240-252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.09.012

Neagoe A., Stancu P., Nicoară A., Onete M., Bodescu F., Gheorghe R., Iordache V., 2014, Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on Agrostis capillaris grown on amended mine tailing substrate at pot, lysimeter, and field plot scales. Environ Sci Pollut Res, 21(11), 6859-6876, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-1908-2

Neagoe A., Iordache V., Bergmann H., Kothe E., 2013, Patterns of effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plants grown in contaminated soil. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 176, 273-286, https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201200079

Iordache V., Lacatusu R., Scradeanu R., Onete M., Ion S., Cobzaru I., Neagoe A., Bodescu F., Jianu D., Purice D., 2012, Contributions to the theoretical foundations of integrated modeling in biogeochemistry and their application in contaminated areas. In Kothe E., Varma A. (eds.), Bio-Geo Interactions in Metal-Contaminated Soils, Springer, pp. 385-416, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-23327-2_19

Pinay G., Gumiero B. Tabacchi E. Gimenez O. Planty-Tabacchi A. M., Hefting M., Burt T., Black V., Nilsson C., Iordache V., Bureau F. Vought L., Petts G., Décamps H., 2007, Patterns of denitrification rates in European alluvial soils under various hydrological regimes, Freshwater Biology, 52, 252-266, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01680.x

Ten selected citations of my work:

Bousquin, J., 2021. Discrete Global Grid Systems as scalable geospatial frameworks for characterizing coastal environments. Environmental Modelling & Software 146, 105210.

Chen, L., Zhou, S., Wu, S., Wang, C., Li, B., Li, Y., Wang, J., 2018. Combining emission inventory and isotope ratio analyses for quantitative source apportionment of heavy metals in agricultural soil. Chemosphere 204, 140-147.

Havrdová, A., Douda, J., Doudová, J., 2023. Threats, biodiversity drivers and restoration in temperate floodplain forests related to spatial scales. Science of The Total Environment 854, 158743.

Kandziora-Ciupa, M., Nadgórska-Socha, A., Barczyk, G., 2021. The influence of heavy metals on biological soil quality assessments in the Vaccinium myrtillus L. rhizosphere under different field conditions. Ecotoxicology 30, 292-310.

Likus-Cieślik, J., Józefowska, A., Frouz, J., Vicena, J., Pietrzykowski, M., 2023. Relationships between soil properties, vegetation and soil biota in extremely sulfurized mine soils. Ecological Engineering 186, 106836.

Luo, Y., Xing, R., Wan, Z., Chen, Y., 2023. Vertical distribution of nutrients, enzyme activities, microbial properties, and heavy metals in zinc smelting slag site revegetated with two herb species: Implications for direct revegetation. Science of The Total Environment 879, 163206.

Signorini, M., Midolo, G., Cesco, S., Mimmo, T., Borruso, L., 2022. A matter of metals: copper but not cadmium affects the microbial alpha-diversity of soils and sediments—a meta-analysis. Microbial Ecology, 1-11.

Talukdar, P., Kumar, B., Kulkarni, V.V., 2023. A review of water quality models and monitoring methods for capabilities of pollutant source identification, classification, and transport simulation. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, 1-25.

Zhang, X., Ci, X., Hu, J., Bai, Y., Thornhill, A.H., Conran, J.G., Li, J., 2023. Riparian areas as a conservation priority under climate change. Science of The Total Environment 858, 159879.

Zhi, W., Li, L., Dong, W., Brown, W., Kaye, J., Steefel, C., Williams, K.H., 2019. Distinct source water chemistry shapes contrasting concentration‐discharge patterns. Water Resources Research 55, 4233-4251.

Honors and awards

2022 Senate Award of the University of Bucharest for the research project with the largest impact in society, “Tools for modeling processes at the interface between water, soil, plants, and air to promote the sustainable management of groundwater-dependent ecosystems and their integrating river basins”, Deputy director, https://interasparadulacatusu.com/

2020 Senate Award of the University of Bucharest for the Springer chapter “On the possibility of accelerating succession by manipulating soil microorganisms”.

2011 Gheorghe Racoviță Award of the Romanian Academy for the book Iordache V., 2009, The ecotoxicology of heavy metals in Small Island of Braila islands, Danube floodplain, Ed. Ars Docendi, Bucureşti, ISBN 973-558-233-3 (in Romanian)

Memberships

British Ecological Society, Ecological Society of America, Society for Ecological Restoration, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Société Française d’Écologie et d’Évolution