Soil Ecotoxicology and Agroecosystems: Concerns, Innovations and Advances
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 567
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Interests: environmental pollution; soil ecotoxicology; bioindicator; biomarker; biomonitoring; water quality; agroecosystems
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Interests: system biology; environmental biotechnology; soil ecotoxicology; molecular ecotoxicology; “omics” sciences
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Interests: landscape, ecology and urban planning; agroecosystems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the frenetic increment in human activities to improve the quality of life and increase technological development has, over time, altered the environmental balance, aggravating the problem of alteration in agroecosystems.
In particular, the capacity of agroecosystems to support a whole range of ecosystem services is severely compromised by various factors such as climate change, pollution, and water scarcity.
For this reason, there is a growing awareness of the need to focus above all on the development of new survey methodologies for the recovery and protection of agroecosystems.
This Special Issue aims to focus on the problems and progress of agroecosystems and soil ecotoxicology. In particular, the topics include the following:
- Innovation in sustainable agriculture;
- Pest management;
- Relation between agroecosystems and soil pollution;
- New emerging pollutants (nanomaterials, micro/nano-plastics, per and poly fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), etc.);
- New methodologies for the detection of soil pollution and reclamation;
- Agriculture and climate change;
- New bred “invasive” species and impact on agroecosystems;
- Applications of purified wastewater reuse.
Submissions in the form of original research, short communication and review articles are invited.
Dr. Antonio Calisi
Prof. Dr. Franćesco Dondero
Dr. Teodoro Semeraro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil ecotoxicology
- agriculture
- agroecosystems
- emerging pollutants
- pest management
- invasive species
- water reuse
- climate change
- reclamation
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