Ecotoxicology in Aquatic Environments: Effects and Prevention

Dear Colleagues,

Aquatic ecotoxicology, based on the fundamental concept of ecology, has been defined as a discipline which aims to analyze the properties and behavior of chemical stressors in aquatic ecosystems and their impact on living organisms, especially those within defined ecosystems. As the aquatic environment appears to be the final destination for most anthropogenic contaminants from industries, agriculture, urbanization, transport, tourism and everyday life, it is necessary to evaluate the risks associated with the presence of contaminants (e.g., heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, plastics and natural toxins) in the aquatic environment to conserve the ecosystems and human health.

This Special Issue on “Ecotoxicology in Aquatic Environments: Effects and Prevention” will focus on the latest scientific research that uses various methods, analytical techniques and approaches of identifying, characterizing and measuring toxic chemical contaminants in marine, freshwater and aquaculture species. Taking into account that no risk assessment would be possible without analytical data on food contaminants, we welcome research papers and reviews that focus on the assessment of risk to human health, applying various indices such as the estimated weekly intake (EWI), provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI), target hazard quotient (THQ), target risk (TR) and hazard index (HI).

Topics to be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Monitoring and predicting the еcotoxicological еffects of chemicals in the aquatic environment
• Environmental risk assessment of effects in aquatic ecotoxicology
• Marine toxicology and ecotoxicology

Dr. Katya Peycheva
Dr. Veselina Panayotova
Dr. Albena Merdzhanova
Guest Editors

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• ecotoxicology
• ecosystem effects
• aquatic environment
• pollution
• ecological risk assessment
• ecological monitoring