Investigating the environmental capacity of soil heavy metals and its determinants in agro-pastoral regions of the qinghai-tibetan plateau
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Special Issue: Fate, Speciation Analysis and Ecotoxicology of Emerging Metallic Contaminants (Technology-Critical Elements: TCEs) in Aquatic Environments: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges
This special issue will bring together a collection of original articles that contribute to fulfilling major gaps in knowledge regarding the current state-of-the-art of Technology-Critical Elements (TCEs) occurrence, fate, speciation analysis and ecotoxicology in aquatic environments. This collection will hold the most recent data providing new insight on these topics for a wide range of elements and coming up with baseline information for the TCEs that remain less studied and thus less understood in aquatic environments. Technology-critical elements include a wide range of elements such as Ga, Ge, In, Nb, Ta, Te, Tl, the platinum group elements (Ir, Os, Pd, Pt, Rh and Ru), and most of the rare earth elements (Ce, Dy, Er, Eu, Gd, Ho, La, Lu, Nd, Pr, Sm, Tb, Y, Yb; NOTICE; Cobelo-García et al., 2015). With this special issue, we expect to boost the scientific community awareness towards the increasing concentrations of TCEs in aquatic compartments and their potential threat, which continues to be deemed under-evaluated due to a lack of analytical techniques for routine analysis of many of them.
This SI is required to gather a collection of papers related to aquatic systems reporting analytical methods for TCE quantification, TCE biogeochemical cycles, as well as TCE ecotoxicology. This last aspect will provide knowledge on the potential threat that TCEs may pose to aquatic wildlife and ultimately to human health. This collection will therefore serve as a reference for an up-to-date state-of-the-art on TCE aquatic biogeochemistry, constituting an impactful production for the wider scientific community.
Main topics to be addressed in this special issue concerning TCEs in aquatic media are therefore:
- Analytical development and optimization
- Sources, distribution, and fate
- Speciation analysis and reactivity
- Interactions with aquatic organisms: availability, toxicity, and biomonitoring
- Risk assessment and Regulation
Editors
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Dr. Carlos Eduardo Monteiro
Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), Institute of Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; Email: carlos.e.monteiro@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
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Dr. Melina Abdou
Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal; Email: melina.abdou@ciimar.up.pt
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Dr. Antonio Cobelo-García
Bioxeoquímica Mariña, Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas IIM–CSIC, Rúa de Eduardo Cabello, 6, 36208 Vigo, Spain; Email: acobelo@iim.csic.es
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Dr. Miguel Caetano
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Av. Alfredo Magalhães Ramalho 6, 1495-165 Algés, Portugal; Email: mcaetano@ipma.pt
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Dr. Jörg Schäfer
Université de Bordeaux, Site de Talence - Bâtiment B18N, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS 50023, France; Email: jorg.schafer@u-bordeaux.fr
