Effects of Emerging Contaminants on Microbial Communities
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 100
Special Issue Editor
2. MOE Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Environmental Evolution, School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: wastewater treatment and resources recovery; microbial electrochemistry; microplas-tics; heavy metal biogeochemical processes; environmental bioremediation
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Dear Colleagues,
With the intensive utilization of different chemicals in today’s society, various emerging chemicals have been released into the environment. Chemicals and pollutants that have never been commonly detected in the environment have been classified as emerging contaminants because of their adverse effects on ecological and human health. In recent years, emerging pollutants such as industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, surfactants, personal care products, microplastics, and per- and polyfluorinated substances have been widely observed in aquatic and terrestrial environments. It has been reported that the presence of emerging contaminants in the environment could affect microbial communities. More research should be conducted to explore the effect of emerging contaminants on microbial communities to better understand their toxicity to the microbial environment. Such a need is the foundation of this Special Issue. In this Special Issue, we invite studies to evaluate the influence of emerging contaminants on environmental microbial communities— including for wastewater, groundwater, soil, sediment, sludges, and natural and engineering biofilm. Research articles, review papers, and short communications are welcome.
Dr. Song Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- microbial community
- microbial response
- environment microbiology
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