New Frontiers in Monitoring, Detecting and Response to Marine and Freshwater Algal Toxins and Their Causative Organisms
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine and Freshwater Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 5170
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Harmful Algal Blooms; phytoplankton taxonomy; marine toxins; monitoring; citizen science
Interests: food safety; food security; sustainable development; harmful algal blooms; contaminants; risk management; capacity building; marine biotoxins
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Harmful algal blooms (HABS) in both marine and freshwater habitats are a global growing concern, enhanced by the increasing need to exploit coastal resources and habitats. The negative environmental and public and animal health issues from HABs have been noted recently in association with pet deaths, fish kills, and disease outbreaks in marine birds and mammals. Toxins from these blooms can have catastrophic effects on coastal ecosystem, animal and human health. Causative species identification coupled with toxin analysis are critical to minimize and mitigate the impacts of these natural phenomenon and develop early warning systems to protect consumers and promote fishery trades.
This special issue calls for manuscripts that deal with strategies for fresh water or marine algal species and biotoxin monitoring and methodologies for toxin analysis to improve understanding of HAB origin, occurrence and consequences and allow science based responses to HAB events, with a special interest of HAB data from developing countries in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia-pacific.
Dr. Steve Morton
Dr. Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
- biotoxins
- monitoring
- marine algae
- freshwater algae
- phytoplankton
- cyanobacteria
- detection
- early warning
- drinking water
- food safety
- fisheries
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