Ecophysiology and Environmental Health: Assessing the Impact of Pollutants on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental health is challenged every day due to climate change, pollutants and the exploitation of resources by humanity. Throughout the last two decades, the scientific community has been trying to draw the attention of decision makers and the general public to the loss of biodiversity and exhaustion of resources. Moreover, researchers have pointed out the origins, fate, risk assessment, and management methods, such as pest control, of the environmental aggressions promoted by mankind. This hard task is still a puzzle in progress that is leading us to a “one health” concept and a new approach aiming to link humans, animals, plants, and other organisms with the entire environment.

Therefore, it is urgent to launch this Special Issue, "Ecophysiology and Environmental Health: Assessing the Impact of Pollutants on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function", to address the serious and widespread impacts of anthropogenic activities on the environment, using an interdisciplinary approach aiming to link several levels of biological organization by determining functional alterations in cells, tissues, organs, individuals, populations, and communities.

This collection welcomes original research, reviews, short communications, comments, perspectives, and methods papers that focus on this “one health” concept and the functioning of organisms and their relationships.

Dr. Renato de Almeida Sarmento
Dr. Maíra Ignacio Sarmento
Dr. Carlos Gravato
Guest Editors

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• ecophysiology
• ecotoxicology
• environmental health
• pollutants
• global change
• one health
• ecosystem functioning
• plant ecophysiology
• agricultural and forest crops