Special Issue "Chemical and Biological Methods in Aquatic Ecosystem Status Assessment"

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Vojislava Bursić
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Department for Phytomedicine and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Interests: water pollutants; separation techniques; chromatography; freshwater; marine water; sediment; soil; food; fish; shells
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Petrović
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Department for Phytomedicine and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Interests: aquatic organisms; biological methods; bioindicators; biomonitors; environmental pollution; eutrophication; aquatic invertebrates’ and vertebrates’ bioecology
Prof. Dr. Belma Kalamujić Stroil
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Laboratory for Molecular Genetics of Natural Resources, Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Interests: population genetics; freshwater; fish; macrozoobenthos; barcoding; metabarcoding; aquatic habitats; assessment
Dr. Igor Stanković
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Central Water Management Laboratory, Sector of Development, Hrvatske vode, Ulica grada Vukovara 220, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: phytoplankton; macrophytes; eutrophication; freshwater; lakes; very large rivers; assessment; pressure-impact relationship; metabarcoding

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The water quality degradation caused by an anthropogenic influence is a problem present in almost every type of water body. Unfortunately, this issue was detected relatively late, at the end of the 1980s, after many aquatic organisms had already disappeared from their habitats due to polluting chemicals in the water. The deterioration of water quality due to pollution has since become a universal health, environmental, social, and economic problem.

The best approach to comprehensively assess the quality of water and aquatic habitats is to compile a wide range of different chemical, physical, and biological parameters. Today, a palette of methods can be utilized to survey and evaluate the negative effects on aquatic organisms and water quality set off by hazardous substances from different sources, in particular agriculture. Various emerging or already established novel chemical and biological methods offer promising applications in aquatic ecosystem status assessments. However, standardized, reproducible, and multilevel-controlled monitoring protocols are called for to establish early-warning and alarm systems. Review papers and studies carried out at different experimental scales (i.e., field, laboratory) are encouraged, as well as research approaching this topic through a combination of cultivation-based, molecular, and analytical methods.

Prof. Dr. Vojislava Bursić
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Petrović
Prof. Dr. Nikola Puvača
Prof. Dr. Belma Kalamujić Stroil
Dr. Igor Stanković
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • trend analysis
  • aquatic ecosystem pollution
  • environmental monitoring
  • seasonality
  • risk assessments
  • water quality
  • interaction of biota with water pollution substances
  • novel genetic methods in aquatic assessment and monitoring
  • multiple pressures
  • ecological status classification
  • EU water framework directive

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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