Soil and Water Contaminants: Challenging Threats to Ecosystems and Agriculture
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 143
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil quality and stabilization; predicting the effects of environmental changes on the soil and plant health; plant physiology; sustainable crop production; GHG emission; plant–soil–microbe interactions; C stocks; waste management; C3/C4 vegetation shift
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Interests: radioactive tracing; environmental fate and toxicity of agrochemicals and contaminants; environmental biophysics; ecosystems; human health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue addresses the critical challenges implemented by water and soil pollutants to agro-ecosystem and crop productivity. The contaminants such as pesticides, heavy metals, and pharmaceuticals in water and soil have increased the threat to soil-plant health, and food security. Further, these resources (soil and water) are important in ensuring sustainable food production. Moreover, this special issue will highlight the physical, chemical, and biological contaminations of soil and water, and the article collections will highlight and investigate advanced remediation strategies and proper management practices. Further, the objective of this special issue is to improve our statement of contaminant dynamics and promote the improvement of effective policies to secure our agriculture resources and ecosystems for the future generations.
Dr. Kashif Akhtar
Prof. Dr. Haiyan Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- contaminants
- heavy metals
- GHG emission
- nutrient and energy recovery
- biofertilizer
- fate
- remediation
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