State-of-the-Art in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry in Marine Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Anthropogenic impacts and climate change represent the main threats to biodiversity and their effects have a greater resonance in marine coastal areas, which are the ultimate receiver of pollutants, nutrients, organic matter and litter. Alterations in the state of environmental quality can have negative effects on the normal physiology of the aquatic organisms. Many of these organisms are highly sensitive to any kind of environmental change, thus representing suitable bioindicators for aquatic ecosystem monitoring. When studying the effects of pollution in marine ecosystems, understanding how toxic effects appear and how the organisms readily metabolize, detoxify and accumulate contaminants is essential to understanding ecological vulnerability and possible recovery.

Also, from a climate change perspective, global warming and acidification effects have been recognized as negatively impacting the ecology and physiology of the organisms.

Interacting pollution and climate change stressors leads to additive, synergistic, or antagonistic impacts on marine organisms. Understanding the organism’s response at metabolic level and which compounds play important roles in various physiological activities is one of the most interesting challenges in environmental science.

The aim of this Special Issue is to outline the state of the art and provide further insight into the physiological responses and adaptive strategy of target organisms, especially fish. To this end, experimental studies focused on the following topics are particularly welcome:

• Traditional and novel experimental approaches in fish physiology, highlighting delimitations and advantages;
• organisms’s response at physiological, biochemical, cellular and molecular level;
• adverse effects of pollutants on fish physiology of different species and definite physiological parameters for particular fish species;
• novel understanding of the physiology in target and non-target fish

Dr. Antonietta Specchiulli
Dr. Monia Renzi
Guest Editors

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