Contaminant Toxicity Monitoring and Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 63
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant protection; pesticides; mixtures; chemical analysis; bioassays; risk assessment and management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The quality of freshwater environments can be impacted by emerging and existing pollutants. Water and sediment quality is typically monitored employing targeted analytical methods for regulated substances that are known to pose a significant risk to or via the aquatic environment. However, chemical analysis does not account for the potential cumulative effects of complex mixtures of chemicals present in water and sediment. Effect-based methods such as in vivo whole-organism bioassays and in vitro assays have emerged in recent years, overcoming these shortcomings. While bioanalytical tools cannot identify individual chemicals, they provide insights into the mode of action and account for the mixture toxicity of chemicals, integrating the effects of unknown compounds and considering synergistic and antagonistic interactions. Thus, combining effect-based approaches with chemical screening tools is the most promising method of connecting chemical contamination and ecological status by detecting, unravelling and prioritizing mixtures and compounds that drive adverse effects.
The main objective of this Special Issue is to bring together current research and reviews that address the application of bioassays in a battery, using a high number of test species of several taxa across major ecological or trophic positions, and chemical analysis in parallel, in order to provide a comprehensive and realistic picture of the potential effects on exposed biota.
Dr. Emília Silva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- freshwater quality
- pollutants
- chemical analysis
- bioassays
- linking chemical status and ecological status
