Environmental Toxicology and Animal Health: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Xenobiotics (ISSN 2039-4713). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecotoxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ecology; water quality; aquatic ecotoxicology; environmental risk assessment; biological responses; bioassays; biomarkers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The effects of emerging contaminants, including pharmaceutical, personal care, and household cleaning products, agricultural residues, flame retardants, microplastics, and nanomaterials on biota, are a matter of growing attention for environmental risk assessment. Animals are continuously exposed to this set of contaminants, mainly through dermal, respiratory, or oral routes of exposure, inducing variable deleterious effects in the most varied metabolic pathways and biological functions. On the other hand, these sub-individual changes can affect the levels of the organism, population, and communities. Despite the great success in developing analytical tools for detecting and investigating their toxic mechanisms, some remain unclear, along with those related to “emerging contaminants”. Moreover, chemicals' single and combined toxicity has yet to be studied, especially under chronic exposure (realistic conditions). The Special Issue is devoted to acquiring new information on the impact of conventional and emerging pollutants in the ecosystem. It encourages the submission of manuscripts that explore themes such as (but not limited to) the toxic mechanisms implicated in environmental chemical-induced toxicity in animals and fish. In this context, studies dealing with the ecotoxicological assessment involving model organisms, physiological and biomolecular mechanisms, and novel biomonitoring indices are particularly welcome.
Dr. Sara Raquel Boaventura Rodrigues
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- ecotoxicological assessment
- environmental health
- bioassays
- individual and sub-individual responses
- physiology
- biomarkers
- wildlife
- non-target organisms
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