Environmental Feedbacks between Global Changes, Contaminants and Aquatic Plants

Dear Colleagues,

After industrialization, anthropic activities have accentuated global changes, leading to increases in temperature, changes in light quality and intensity, more frequent droughts, as well as increased salinization and contamination of aquatic systems. These novel conditions have direct impacts on water environments affecting their services and creating constraints to the biota. Although isolated effects of temperature, light, and contaminants on aquatic organisms have been studied, their integrative effects are far to be understood. Aquatic plants play important roles for the global environment. In addition to being the basis of the aquatic trophic chain, phytoplankton are essential for CO₂ fixation and O₂ production, but certain species may also produce toxins that are harmful for other organisms. Similarly, hydrophytes provide a habitat for a wide variety of aquatic organisms and, likewise, influence their abundance and diversity, in addition to participating in the removal of water contaminants (such as personal care and pharmaceuticals products, cyanotoxins, metals, hydrocarbons, and pesticides). Therefore, the environmental feedbacks between global changes, contaminants and aquatic plants are highly actual.

Based on that, this Special Issue aims to gather knowledge on environmental feedbacks between global changes and/or contaminants on the biology (molecular, morphophysiological, and biogeochemical responses) of aquatic plants (phytoplankton and hydrophytes).

This Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following aspects:

• Aquatic plant responses to isolated and/or integrative effects of global changes and contaminants;
• Plant`s tolerance mechanisms to global changes and contaminants;
• Ecological prospection and modeling of the effects of global changes on aquatic plants;
• Techniques to control contaminants and/or microorganisms (pathogens, cyanobacteria, and antimicrobial resistant microorganisms).

All article types are welcome, with an emphasis on original research papers, opinions, perspectives, hypotheses, reviews and mini-reviews.

Prof. Dr. Philippe Juneau
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Pedrosa Gomes
Guest Editors

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