Advances in Environmental Toxicology and Wildlife Health

Dear Colleagues,

Vertebrate populations have decreased by more than 65% around the world since 1970, mainly due to loss of habitat, deforestation, and changes in land use toward industrialization, as well as intensive monoculture agriculture and livestock farming, leading to a greater use of chemicals (e.g., biocides, drugs), a larger emission associated with industrial environmental pollutants (mainly POPs and inorganic elements), and new emerging pollutants (like phthalates, bisphenols or perfluoroalkyls). These contaminants have acute (e.g., poisoning, intended or not) and, of major concern, subchronic/sublethal health effects (e.g., endocrine disruptors, decreased eggshell, reproductive/development, and immune failures, among others). Therefore, research in sources of exposure, subclinical effects, and the relationship to wildlife health should be identified. Biomonitoring of these substances and research on exposure and effect biomarkers are essential to know their distribution in ecosystems and to help in the management/assessment of risks for wildlife.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute with your original research articles or reviews for the Special Issue of Toxics on “Advances in Ecotoxicology and Wildlife Health”. The aim is to combine knowledge on environmental toxicology and its interaction with wildlife health by combining/updating data about on the occurrence, exposure, and effects on wildlife, through analysis of biomarkers and the most common chemicals.

Research areas may include the following (but not exclusively): analytical methods for wildlife biomonitoring of pollutants of concern and their effect and exposure biomarkers; routes of exposure and geographical distribution data; and, especially, repercussions on vertebrate animals, mainly subclinic and subchronic health effects.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Cristian Rial-Berriel
Prof. Dr. Octavio Pérez Luzardo
Guest Editors

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