Advances in Wastewater Bio-Management: Microbial Community Relationships, Monitoring and Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

Wastewater treatment is of critical importance in today’s world, which is increasingly being affected by climate change and global pollution as a result of xenobiotics. In addressing these challenges, the scientific community must prioritize the integration of treatment technologies within the living environment that are composed of the organisms and the communities that they form. The majority of these technologies are based on the function of biological systems such as activated sludge, biofilms, and others. Thus, living biological components are, in fact, integral and key elements of wastewater treatment technologies. Organisms and biocenoses also represent an independent domain for the innovation and improvement of control and management mechanisms.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for publishing studies focused on pollution treatment technologies that involve biological components, with a particular focus on their relationship to environmental communities, including river and marine micro- and macroorganisms communities, as well as all communities of the ecosystems in direct or indirect contact with wastewater treatment facilities. This Special Issue will also highlight innovations in the field of the bio-management of purification processes and the control of communities both within and beyond treatment infrastructure. This includes innovative management strategies, novel applications of existing standards, and their enhancement and integration with other environmental and technological management systems.

Topics of interest to readers in the field also include new and specialized methods for monitoring and controlling the described biological processes, using approaches from ecology, microbiology, and genetics. Particular attention will be paid to the relationships within the communities and between deferent levels in the biocenoses (e.g., micro- and metafauna and bacterial segments). This Special Issue will also welcome a range of studies in the field of the biological remediation of polluted natural resources.

Dr. Mihaela Kirilova
Prof. Dr. Yana Topalova
Prof. Dr. Naresh Singhal
Guest Editors

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