The Environmental Assessment of Trace Metals in Water Ecosystems
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: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 4077
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heavy metals; aquatic environments; toxicity; contribution of geogenic; anthropogenic pollution; monitoring; bioavailability; risk assessment
Interests: lakes; rivers; hydrology; water quality; heavy metal pollution; water treatment; wastewater treatment; sediment pollution; wastewater; water and wastewater treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The quality of surface waters indicates the standard of living and the scale of human impact on the environment. Various types of pollutants including heavy metals enter surface waters. Although heavy metals are naturally occurring elements that are found throughout the earth's crust, most environmental pollution and human exposure results from anthropogenic activities associated with the discharge of wastewater from mineral extraction and processing from industrial production and urban operations, and the widespread use of metals and their compounds in a variety of economic activities including, but not limited to, agriculture and automobiles. In addition, it is believed that heavy metals pose a serious threat to the aquatic environment due to their toxicity, non-biodegradability and bioaccumulation capacity and dangerously affect the ecological balance in aquatic ecosystems. Studies on the distribution of heavy metals in the environment, and the toxic effects of pollution are a key focus of ongoing research. Therefore, it is important to control and remove contaminants throughout the process and to properly understand their biogeochemical behavior and biological responses to them. A better understanding of the effects of these pollutants on aquatic ecosystems will provide essential information for environmental risk assessment and identification of anthropogenic impacts thereby contributing to improved knowledge and better management and surveillance of studied rivers and lakes in the future. This Special Issue on metals in the aquatic environment will focus mainly on studies on the occurrence, distribution, migration and transformation of emerging heavy metals and the factors affecting them; occurrence, migration, and transformation of heavy metals in various media (e.g., sediment, water, aquatic organisms); monitoring and analysis of heavy metals in aquatic environments; source identification, temporal and spatial distribution of heavy metals; heavy metal speciation; effects of heavy metals on ecosystems; exposure, bioaccumulation, toxic effect and risk assessment of environmental pollution by heavy metals.
Dr. Elżbieta Skorbiłowicz
Dr. Marcin Sidoruk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- aquatic environments
- toxicity
- contribution of geogenic and anthropogenic pollution
- monitoring
- bioavailability
- risk assessment
