Impact of Heavy Metal Pollution on Soil Ecology
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemoenvironment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2023) | Viewed by 2306
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of modern industry, soil heavy metal pollution has gradually become a global environmental problem. Heavy metal pollution in soil has the characteristics of concealment, hysteresis, accumulation, and irreversibility, which greatly increase the difficulty of monitoring and treating heavy metal pollution in soil. Heavy metal pollution will have an important impact on soil microbial communities, soil enzyme activities, and soil biochemical processes, and then affect human health and the balance of soil ecosystems. A comprehensive understanding of the consequences and underlying mechanisms of heavy metal pollutants, as well as the response of and changes in soil ecology in the process of heavy metal pollution in soil, is of great significance to the development of the effective remediation and treatment of soil heavy metal pollution.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the most recent developments in the links between heavy metal pollutants and soil ecology, including the impacts and mechanisms of pollutants on the soil environment, the effects of heavy metal pollution on soil–plant systems, the monitoring and remediation of heavy metal pollution, etc. New research papers, reviews, and short communications are welcome to this Special Issue. Papers involving the development of new methods for the risk assessment and management of heavy metal pollution will also be accepted. In addition, studies referring to the development of policies for the protection and restoration of soil quality against heavy metal pollutants are also welcomed in this Special Issue.
Dr. Hongfei Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy metal
- soil ecology
- remediation
- soil biochemical process
- pollutants
- ecotoxicology
