Metal(loid)s Mobility in Hypersaline Environments and Salt Marshes
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2021) | Viewed by 2303
Special Issue Editors
2. Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, Cankarjeva ulica 5, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
Interests: saline and hypersaline environments; composition and transformation of organic matter; biogeochemistry of hypersaline environment; therapeutic mud (peloid); microbial mat; pollution of coastal waters
Interests: saline and hypersaline environments; composition and transformation of organic matter; interactions of organic matter and metal(loid)s; biogeochemistry of metal(loid)s
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Saline and hypersaline environments are characterized by diverse and unique biogeochemical properties and biological communities. Such extreme ecosystems consequently represent a very vulnerable natural resource with great ecological value for the ecosystem, which is of high importance in terms of both culture and economy.
Despite positive trends in natural resource management and an integrated approach to sustainable conservation and development, the saline and hypersaline environments are subjected to the effects of increasing anthropogenic pressure, particularly metals and metalloids. Consequently, for exploitation, survival, and conservation of these environments, it is essential to know and predict how they respond to human and abiotic perturbations. The assessment and knowledge of concentrations, distributions, bioavailability, and mobility of metal(loid)s in the mentioned environments are very important for better understanding of the mechanisms controlling the dispersal, accumulation, and fate of the metal(loid)s as well as their potential ecological and biological effects.
This special issue aims to merge the research communities investigating spatial and temporal distribution of metal(loid)s in saline and hypersaline environments with different in situ and laboratory analytical approach, as well as to share and discuss the recent results, experience, techniques and future perspectives.
Dr. Nives Kovač
Prof. Dr. Jadran Faganeli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Hypersaline environments/saltmarshes
- Sediment
- Metal(loid)s
- Concentration, spatial and temporal distribution
- Biogeochemical effects
- Environmental geochemistry and mineralogy
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