Advancing Knowledge of the Impacts of Contaminants in Aquatic Environments
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water contamination; sediment contamination; plastics; ecotoxicology; genotoxicity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental contamination remains a major worldwide issue in spite of extensive coordinated efforts aimed at reducing it. At the same time, new methods and technologies are constantly being developed for detecting and assessing the adverse effects of contaminants.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, reviews, and short communications on all aspects of aquatic contamination. It is committed to documenting the state of the art in understanding the processes of contamination, the fate of contaminants, toxicity, and interactions with other constituents of the aquatic environment. Findings from both basic and advanced research on all kinds of contaminants are accepted.
The scope of the Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Novel methods for the characterization of contaminant properties and distribution in water and sediment;
- Understanding the interaction of contaminants with constituents of the aquatic environment;
- The distribution and fate of contaminants;
- The short or long-term impacts on aquatic organisms.
This Special Issue aims to serve as a reference for the state of the field and thus be a significant basis for advancement.
Dr. Alla Khosrovyan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- benthic
- water column
- lentic
- lotic
- aquatic pollution
- ecotoxicology
- assay
- test
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