Research on Bioaccumulation and Toxicity of Environmental Pollutants
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 279
Special Issue Editor
Interests: geochemistry; analytical chemistry; toxicology; toxic effects; environmental pollution; trace metals; water quality; soil characterization; risk assessment; aquaponic systems; water and soil bioremediation; nutrient pollution
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental pollution is now of international concern and a public health issue. Pollution problems and effects have been widely causing environmental issues affecting water, soil, and air; this can affect all the inhabitants (fauna and flora) of the environmental spheres. The intake route of an environmental pollutant might be through physical, chemical, and biological processes; this begins with cell tissue interaction with toxic contaminants. This interaction can cause several negative effects and even death of the exposed organisms. Toxicity studies are extremely useful to evaluate the vulnerability and mortality probability of organisms induced by direct contamination; this has strong dependence on the pollutant type, time of exposure, pollutant concentrations, and the life cycle stage or the organisms at the time. In addition, environmental pollutants can lead to biomagnification processes, by an increased concentration of the toxic pollutant the higher an animal is on the food chain.
The main purpose of this Special Issue in IJERPH is to publish original and/or review papers dealing with the incidence, sources, transportation, accumulation, and physical, chemical, and biological processes leading to toxicity and bioaccumulation on flora and fauna through water, soil, and air pollution. Studies on toxicity and bioaccumulation of priority environmental pollutants, such as pesticides, metals, metalloids, micro-plastics, nanoparticles, organic and persistent pollutants (PAHs, dioxins, hydrocarbons, furans, PCBs, phthalates, etc.), biotoxins, emerging contaminants, etc., are welcome.
Dr. Magdalena Elizabeth Bergés Tiznado
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- contamination
- environmental pollutants
- effects of pollutants
- biological pollution
- metal(loid)s
- organic pollutants, pesticides
- emerging pollutants
- toxicological studies
- lethal dose
