Microbial Remediation of Polluted Water Bodies and Degraded Water Ecosystems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 5882
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water contamination; microbial degradation; pollution treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent decades have witnessed increasing deterioration of the global aquatic environment, which has been damaged by ubiquitous contaminants that have not undergone treatment or have been incompletely reclaimed from wastewater, which accounts for half of worldwide production. Traditional contaminants and contaminants of emerging concern, despite belonging to a wide variety of natural or anthropogenic chemicals, such as agrochemicals, personal care products, industrial additives, hormones, and drugs, all pose severe threats to human health and environmental safety, whereas traditional wastewater treatment methods lack removal capacities. Notably, many microorganisms (including bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and metazoans) have not only shown tolerance to these toxic compounds but also driven biodegradation processes. Studies have highlighted the necessity of exploring structural, genomic, and metabolic adaptations of these extremotolerant or functional microorganisms to uncover microbial bioremediation and biotechnologies processes.
This Special Issue of Water invites you to send contributions, in the form of original research or review papers, concerning any aspects of the aforementioned water pollutants or degraded water ecosystem bioremediation using microorganisms, such as the biodegradation pathway, regulatory mechanisms, microbial stress response, and adaptation strategies.
Dr. Xian Zhang
Guest Editor
Xuan Zhang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- traditional contaminants
- contaminants of emerging concern
- water bioremediation
- microbial treatment
- aquatic microecosystem
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