The Biogeochemical Behavior and Innovative Remediation of Contaminants
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 327
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emerging contaminants; environmental biogeochemical behavior; resource recovery; advanced functional materials; remediation; ecological risk assessment; soil amelioration
Interests: microplastics; plastisphere; dissolved organic matter; ARGs; aggregation; genotoxicity; FT-ICR MS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, microplastics, and industrial chemicals, pose escalating threats to aquatic and soil ecosystems due to their persistence, bioaccumulation potential, and ecotoxicological effects. These contaminants compromise water and soil quality, endanger biodiversity, disrupt ecosystem services, and threaten human health via food chains and drinking water. Despite progress in detection and remediation, critical gaps persist in understanding their environmental fate, synergistic impacts, and scalable mitigation strategies. Therefore, it is necessary to summarize studies on the impacts of pollutants on aquatic and soil ecosystems. This Special Issue of Water calls for papers that address the biogeochemical behavior of contaminants, ecological risk assessments, and innovative remediation strategies including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- The dynamic transport mechanisms and chemical/biological transformation pathways of contaminants.
- The impacts of pollutants on organisms, ecosystem functions, and long-term ecological resilience.
- The design and application of functional materials, microbial consortia, and hybrid systems for contaminant elimination.
- Risk assessments of pollutants in aquatic and soil ecosystems.
Dr. Zhuozhi Ouyang
Dr. Yanjun Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pollutants
- biogeochemical behavior
- functional materials
- remediation
- risk assessment
- ecosystems
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