Nutrient Continuum Across Water–Soil Applications: Cycling–Recycling–Cycling
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 73
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environment; environmental impact assessment; sedimentology; nutrient cycling; soil; water quality; soil chemistry; water chemistry; soil analysis; field experimentation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrient management is entering a new era—one that demands a deeper understanding of how elements like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and micronutrients move, transform, and return across water-soil environmental systems. Natural nutrient cycling—driven by microbial activity, plant uptake, and geochemical processes—regulates water quality, soil fertility, and ecosystem productivity, but is increasingly disrupted by human activity. Nutrient recycling offers a corrective path by recovering nutrients from agricultural and municipal wastewater, organic waste, and industrial byproducts. Once reintroduced, these recycled nutrients initiate a new phase ofcycling, whose effectiveness and ecological impact depend on how they interact with water bodies and agroecosystems.
This Special Issue invites contributions that examine the full arc—or key segments—of nutrient transformation across water–soil applications: from original cycling, through recycling, to re-cycling in environmental applications. We welcome studies that link these stages or focus on how pre-recycling nutrient behaviour shapes recovery strategies, and/or how recycled nutrients perform in natural or managed aquatic/soil systems. Topics may include biogeochemical modelling, lab and field trials, testing the outcomes of recycling technologies, and ecosystem responses, all aimed at advancing a more integrated and resilient framework for nutrient stewardship.
Dr. Iris Zohar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water quality
- nutrient biogeochemical cycling
- nutrient recovery and recycling
- soil fertility improvement
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