Special Issue "Geochemistry of Landscape and Soil"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 March 2022) | Viewed by 17772
Special Issue Editors

Interests: landscape geochemistry; geochemical barriers; heavy metals and metalloids; soil catena; elements partitioning; aquatic systems; road dust
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Interests: soil science; biogeochemistry of trace elements; environmental soil chemistry; soil monitoring; assessment; modeling and remediation using physicochemical treatment methods
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Interests: landscape geochemistry; partition; environmental impact of space transportation; hyperaccumulator plant species; soil microbiome; heavy metals
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Interests: land degradation; soil quality; water quality; surface hydrology; nature-based solutions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and environmental pollution affect the equilibrium that has developed over a long period of time in the biosphere. Landscapes are an interface layer between the atmosphere, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, and humans. Soils as a reflection of the landscape are at the forefront of these interactions, as they play an integral and decisive role in the provision of numerous ecosystem services. The unceasing development of advanced analytical techniques continues to change how questions on soil geochemistry and structure can be addressed, from nano- and micro-scales to the landscape and catchment scale.
This Special Issue of Water, entitled “Geochemistry of Landscape and Soil”, welcomes papers that describe field, experimental, and modeling studies related to the natural and human-caused balance of substances in the system “rocks–soils–aerosols–surface waters–bottom sediments–biota–people" and the adaptation of soils and landscapes to changing environments.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- an interdisciplinary understanding of how soils and landscapes function as media that provide for the migration and accumulation of substances;
- adaptation of the migration and accumulation of substances to changing environments in landscapes and soils;
- processes and mechanisms by which soils react to, and interact with, changes imposed by the wider environment or by direct human intervention (e.g., climate change, land-use, or management practice);
- human health in connection with soils and landscapes: hidden hunger, endemic diseases, environmental pollution, etc.;
- novel approaches, techniques, and methods for obtaining a new understanding of geochemical Earth-surface processes, especially in landscape catenas and river basins;
- geochemical partition of heavy metals and metalloids in landscapes and soils; and
- geochemical mitigation of soil and landscape degradation and enhancements in the supply of ecosystem services.
Prof. Dr. Nikolay Kasimov
Prof. Dr. Tatiana Minkina
Dr. Ivan Semenkov
Dr. Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental geochemistry
- soil pollution
- catena
- potentially toxic elements
- hidden hunger
- endemic diseases
- earth-surface processes
- partition
- landscape degradation
- ecosystem services