Toxicity Assessment of Environmental Pollutants towards Aquatic Organisms

Dear Colleagues,

Water bodies have been drowning in chemicals from anthropogenic activities, remaining one of the main environmental issues worldwide for decades. Now, it is no longer surprising to find emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, microplastics, pathogens, and so on) alongside “traditional” pollutants (e.g., metals, pesticides, PAH) in waters when they are looked for. Despite this global observation, each country has its own rules concerning the management and control of risks of pollutants. A limiting factor for an effective ecological risk assessment, and thus, management is, especially, the lack of knowledge around their bioaccumulation and ecotoxicity to nonmodel aquatic organisms in a changing environment. The understanding of contaminant effects becomes even more complex due to a multistress context.

Keeping these aspects in mind, in this Special Issue, we would like to inform readers of the updated insights about the toxicity mechanisms and ecological risk assessment of pollutants in environmentally relevant conditions. It will primarily address bioaccumulation, toxic effects (positive, negative or the absence of effect), and the ecological risk assessment of traditional and emerging pollutants, with a particular focus on aquatic organisms. Submissions of original research articles and case studies on these topics, showing advances with respect to the mechanisms of action and risk assessment, are welcome. This Special Issue also encourages the submission of up-to-date review papers describing the current state of knowledge and future directions of research in this field.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Laetitia Minguez
Dr. Fanny Louis
Guest Editors

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