Frontiers in Microbial Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation is a Specialty Section of Frontiers in Microbiology.
Microorganisms are both ubiquitous and diverse on earth, facilitate the biogeochemical cycles, and catalyze a wide range of important reactions of both natural and man-made complex recalcitrant compounds that have far-reaching effects on the ecosystem and the well-being of humans and other animals in health and disease. Thus, microbes contribute to the deactivation of toxicants as well as the activation of precursors to toxic and harmful compounds. As such, microorganisms as individual cells, biofilm populations or complex communities largely modulate the effects of toxic chemicals on all living beings, which need to be studied and evaluated at the pure individual cultures, population and community levels in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Microbial ecotoxicology concerns itself with the elucidation of processes and their outcomes in which microbes facilitate, modulate or abate the effects of toxicants on ecosystems, and examines the impact of chemicals on microbial activities at the individual, population or community level. Work published in Frontiers in Microbial Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation will contribute to an in-depth understanding of microbe-microbe interactions, threshold concentrations of toxicants to microorganisms, regulation and expression of genes under toxic vs metabolizing conditions, and the toxic-shock-response mechanisms involved.
Frontiers in Microbial Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation welcomes the following
tier 1 article types: Book Review, Clinical Case, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review and Specialty Grand Challenge.
All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Microbial Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Section.
All articles published in Frontiers in Microbial Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation will be subjected to the
Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the
original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology to write a prestigious Frontiers
Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "
democratic tiering". The selection is based on the reader impact over a 4-month period from the date of publication. The selected high impact articles are re-written in a review style centered on the original discovery, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Microbiology.