Toxicity Assessment of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Marine Environments
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Contaminants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 4770
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon export; ocean acidification; zooplankton; microplastics; nanoplastics; ocean; marine ecosystem
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plastics contaminate marine and other ecosystems to an extent that they can be considered a marker for the Anthropocene. Globally, plastic has been observed to negatively impact marine organisms and ecosystem health, with toxicological effects stemming both from the chemicals associated with plastics and the plastic itself. Moreover, the toxicity threshold to plastic pollution can be lower when associated with other human-induced stressors compared to in singularity. This includes potential synergistic/additive effects of plastic with climatic stressors (i.e., ocean acidification, ocean warming) as well as other pollutants (e.g., POP, metalloids).
This Special Issue aims to broaden our insight into the toxicity of microplastics an nanoplastics in the marine environment from the perspective of a rapidly changing ocean, which requires an urgent, international response.
We welcome a range of novel contributions (original research, method development, and perspective, opinion, and review pieces), from controlled experiments to local or global field observations, as well as modeling approaches. Research areas may include (but are not limited to): (i) micro and nano, exposure, in vivo behavior and bioaccumulation; (ii) bioindicators, biomarkers and specific organism thresholds for micro and nano plastic pollution; (iii) exposome analysis, risk assessment; (iv) multi-stressors and cumulative impacts; (v) mitigation/remediation pathways. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Clara Manno
Dr. Emily Rowlands
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microplastic
- nanoplastic
- toxicity
- marine ecosystem
- multistressors
