Ecotoxicological Risk in Aquatic Environments
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 6260
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The assessment of the environmental quality of aquatic environments is of crucial importance to evaluate and classify the status of water bodies and sediments by integrating different quality elements, and to identify suitable management or remediation options.
The integration of data obtained by multidisciplinary approaches represents an undisputed added value compared to the analysis of individual lines of evidence (LOEs), and better supports complex processes of ecological risk assessment. In this approach, ecotoxicological analyses are elaborated, and are usually integrated with chemical ones obtaining a synthetic risk index.
The indexing of ecotoxicological responses weights measured endpoints, tested matrices, times of exposure, and the magnitudes and statistical differences of effects compared to specific thresholds for all the assays of the battery. Different scores may be attributed and included in user-friendly tools, allowing a common assessment that is useful in decision-making processes.
This Special Issue, titled “Ecotoxicological Risk in Aquatic Environments”, welcomes original research and review papers dealing with the assessment of ecotoxicological hazards and consequent risks to aquatic environments, including marine, fresh and brackish waters.
Dr. Cristian Mugnai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hazard
- weighted approach
- risk
- ecotoxicology
- modelling
- lines of evidence
- end points
- marine
- freshwater
- brackish water
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