Environmental Risk Assessment Processes and Ecotoxicology

Dear Colleagues,

Contamination is present in almost all aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems around the world. Massive urban, industrial, and agricultural development and the emergence of new chemicals are environmental stressors that threaten the biodiversity of many ecosystems. In fact, the assessment of the impact caused by contamination is considered a crucial step in understanding problems including genetic erosion, physiological disruptions, homeostatic imbalance, behavioral alterations, and changes in ecological niches. Therefore, the need to study the loss of environmental quality due to chemical contamination has become an urgent and fundamental step to ensure sustainable development.

This Special Issue of Processes on “Environmental Risk Assessment Processes and Ecotoxicology” aims to present the latest research on the effects of contamination on organisms, from sub-organismal to community levels. We are also interested in effects that might bring about changes in the structure and functioning of ecosystems, which could lead to an increase in the vulnerability and loss of resilience of aquatic and terrestrial environments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Environmental risk assessment studies in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems;
• Environmental quality studies in the field of environmental chemistry, mainly related to contaminants of emerging concern;
• Direct effects of the contaminants on organisms, including different levels of biological organization;
• Indirect alterations in biological communities and their ecological relationships due to contamination;
• Ecological studies in which contamination is considered a stress factor;
• Discussions about the frontiers of new knowledge that improve our understanding of contamination-driven environmental disturbances—new methods and approaches;
• Development and application of models to predict or explain the environmental disturbances caused by chemicals.

Dr. Cristiano V.M. Araújo
Dr. M. Dolores Basallote
Dr. Araceli Rodríguez Romero
Guest Editors

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