Emerging Aquatic Pollutants including Engineered Nanoparticles and Their Molecular Mechanisms of Effect on Hydrobionts

Dear Colleagues, 

Our Special Issue focuses on emerging aquatic pollutants (EAP) such as antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals, pesticides, steroid hormones, pigments, surfactants, solvents, as well as engineered nanoparticles, microplastics and other chemicals and materials. Such contaminants released continuously into the aquatic environment even in very low quantities, can cause chronic toxicity and endocrine disruption in aquatic life and humans, and contribute to the emergence of resistant pathogens. Scientific knowledge about the molecular mechanisms of the toxic effect of EAP on inhabitants of marine and freshwater ecosystems is limited. There is not enough information on the interactions of EAP with each other and with other contaminants, such as mutual enhancement or reduction in toxicity. Of particular interest here are engineered nanoparticles and microplastics as potential carriers of other toxicants. There are significant methodological gaps in the identification and study of the fate of EAP in the aquatic environment and in biological media, as well as in the methods of their bioindication and bioremoval from water. Thus, there is a need to strengthen scientific knowledge and improve relevant methodological approaches to better understand the effects and mechanisms of treatment of EAP on the inhabitants of the aquatic environment, as well as to identify, bioindicate and bioremove these pollutants from water. This Special Edition welcomes original research papers as well as high-quality review papers in all of the aforesaid fields.

This Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• EAP of marine, fresh and waste water.
• Toxic effects of EAP on a wide range of aquatic species.
• Molecular mechanisms of toxicity of EAP.
• Interaction of EAP, mutual enhancement and reduction of toxicity.
• Promising approaches to bioindication and bioremediation of EAP from water.
• New methods for EAP studying.

Dr. Alexander Gusev
Prof. Dr. Kirill S. Golokhvast
Guest Editors

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