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A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2023 | Viewed by 1787
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil science; environmental science; agricultural chemistry; contaminant fate and behavior; environmental nanotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on “Emerging Contaminants in Soil Systems: Occurrence, Fate, Behavior and Impact” addresses the current requirement for a comprehensive understanding of emerging contaminants in the soil environment. Due to the increasing industrial expansion and developmental technologies, emerging contaminants are being identified in terrestrial ecosystems, with little information regarding their environmental behavior and implication. This issue will cover but is not limited to pharmaceuticals and personal care products, endocrine disrupters, brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated compounds, engineered nanoparticles and microplastics, focusing on the occurrence, fate and behavior of the emerging contaminants and providing a thorough description of how emerging contaminants interact with other contaminants in soil.
We are especially interested in high-quality research papers as well as state-of-the-art critical reviews on the following topics:
- Analytical methods or models for the assessment of emerging contaminants in the soil environment.
- Fate, transport and transformation analysis of emerging contaminants.
- Ecotoxicological or abiotic effects of emerging contaminants in terrestrial environments.
- Interactions of emerging contaminants with coexisting substances in soil systems.
- Novel remediation technologies of emerging contaminants—polluted soil.
Dr. Tianjiao Xia
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- plastics
- soil functions
- analytical methods
- fate
- impacts
- remediation