Studies on Toxic Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 196
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecotoxicology; aquatic toxicology; biodiversity; online monitoring technology; individual responses; toxic effects
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Interests: automated biological monitoring; biological image analysis; behavioral tracking and analysis; automated bio-monitoring systems; marine monitoring systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chemicals have been widely used in agricultural crops, forests, and wetlands in the last 30 years. However, the extensive use and discharge of these chemicals in aquatic environments will induce aquatic toxicology and may impair biological communities. Due to the lack of target specificity, these chemicals can cause severe and persistent toxic effects on non-target aquatic species, including invertebrates and vertebrates.
This Special Issue will cover new monitoring technologies, mathematical analysis methods, and aquatic environmental assessments of such aquatic toxicology. Increased knowledge and understanding of these issues have led to the development of new monitoring, analysis, and assessment technologies based on biological and chemical methods. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles, that will stimulate the continuing development of the research areas described above.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Type analyses of environmental chemicals in the aquatic environment;
- The transport and transformation of chemicals in aquatic environments;
- Scientific methods for monitoring and assessing aquatic toxicology: scaling methods, the use of biological indicators/biomarkers, dynamic and commitment models, pollution indices, etc.;
- The biological and chemical characteristics of the water pollution caused by different chemicals;
- The design and development of sampling techniques, analysis methods, and monitoring systems of chemicals in groundwater and surface water;
- Methods and procedures for pollution risk assessment in aquatic environments;
- The mechanisms of cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, and tumorigenicity exerted by environmental chemicals in the aquatic environment;
- The use of wastewater and other qualities of water;
- Mitigation strategies for nanoparticles in water pollution;
- The impacts of monitoring and assessment methods as a result of new trends in aquatic toxicology;
- New laboratory techniques of emerging pollutant quantification;
- Recent developments in water, sediment, and tissue quality guidelines;
- The marine environment and toxicology.
Prof. Dr. Zongming Ren
Dr. Chunlei Xia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aquatic toxicology
- online monitoring technology
- individual responses
- toxic effects
- water pollution
- biodiversity
- ecosystems
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