Emerging Contaminants in Marine Ecosystems: Current Trends and Future Challenges in Fate, Transport, and Toxicity
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2023) | Viewed by 4221
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental analytical chemistry; wastewater treatment; marine chemistry; emerging contaminants; climate change; sustainability in education
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Interests: emerging pollutants; environmental remediation; nanomaterials; water treatment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit an original manuscript to this Special Issue in Water on chemodynamics and environmental toxicology of emerging contaminants in marine ecosystems. The presence of emerging contaminants in seas and oceans has degraded water quality and contributed to habitat fragmentation and loss of biodiversity. These emerging contaminants continuously enter marine ecosystems via riverine discharge, surface runoff, long-range atmospheric deposition, and oceanic currents. Therefore, there is a need for comprehensive studies on the behavior and health effects of emerging contaminants in marine ecosystems.
Through advances in sampling techniques, emerging contaminants have been detected in the deep sea. Over the past decades, analytical techniques have become more sensitive and selective making it possible to detect unknown known (suspect screening) and unknown unknown (non-target screening) contaminants at trace concentrations. Advances in biological analysis with the advent of high throughput DNA sequencing which made it possible to determine the impact of emerging contaminants on biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. Further developments in in vitro assays have contributed to our understanding of the mechanism and pathways of toxicity of emerging contaminants in marine ecosystems. However, there are several critical questions that remain unanswered.
This Special Issue will publish original research, short communications, reviews, and policy analyses articles that address recent advances in environmental monitoring and characterization of emerging contaminants in marine ecosystems; such as novel methods in sampling and analysis of emerging contaminants, advances in source appointment and contaminant transpor , environmental chemodynamics of emerging contaminants, impact of emerging contaminants on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles, mixture toxicity of emerging contaminants, and application of in vitro assays in mechanistic toxicology.
Dr. Edmond Sanganyado
Dr. Nhamo Chaukura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- pharmaceuticals and personal care products
- pesticides
- microbial ecology
- environmental fate and transport
- marine pollution
- mixture toxicity
- environmental DNA
- marine mammals
- in vitro assays
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