About this Research Topic
Marine organic pollutants (including the legacy and emerging as well as the volatile organic compounds) pose a serious threat to the local environment, ecosystems, food safety, culture and human rights, and ultimately impair the health and safety of human beings. Revealing the environmental behavior process and mechanism of organic pollutants in the marine environment is one of the key scientific issues in the future global healthy ocean and sustainable development of coastal zones.
Marine coastal waters, especially the special ecosystems (e.g., mariculture systems, mangrove areas, offshore wetlands, and typical estuaries) are one of the most important environmental capital for humankind. However, under the dual influence of global warming and human activities, issues such as increased emissions of environmental pollutants (e.g., POPs and microplastics) pose unprecedented threats to these ecosystems. Studies of the migration and transformation behavior of the pollutants and their controlling factors in aquatic environments are crucial to accurately assess and address their environmental hazards and biological impacts.
Although the occurrence of organic pollutants in marine ecosystems has aroused wide concern globally, the environmental behavior process (e.g., the multi-media phase distribution characteristics and rules, migration and transformation) and the mechanism of organic pollutants in particular marine ecosystems need to be investigated in more detail. In view of this, the goal of this Research Topic is to seek manuscripts that focus on environmental behavior processes and mechanisms of organic pollutants in global coastal waters, especially the special ecosystems by the methods of simulation experiments, field studies, model analysis, etc.
This Research Topic focuses on studies (including e.g. original research, perspectives, and comprehensive review papers) that include but are not limited to the following research topics:
• The multi-media (i.e., air, water, suspended particulate matter, sediment, and organisms) migration, medium partitioning, and accumulation of organic pollutants in particular marine ecosystems.
• The transformation processes (e.g., photochemical transformation, biotransformation, microbial degradation) and their micro-mechanism of organic pollutants in the special marine ecosystems
• Analysis of key controlling factors (e.g., environmental factors) of the migration and transformation of organic pollutants
• Ecological remediation of organic pollutants in the typical offshore ecosystems
Marine coastal waters, especially the special ecosystems (e.g., mariculture systems, mangrove areas, offshore wetlands, and typical estuaries) are one of the most important environmental capital for humankind. However, under the dual influence of global warming and human activities, issues such as increased emissions of environmental pollutants (e.g., POPs and microplastics) pose unprecedented threats to these ecosystems. Studies of the migration and transformation behavior of the pollutants and their controlling factors in aquatic environments are crucial to accurately assess and address their environmental hazards and biological impacts.
Although the occurrence of organic pollutants in marine ecosystems has aroused wide concern globally, the environmental behavior process (e.g., the multi-media phase distribution characteristics and rules, migration and transformation) and the mechanism of organic pollutants in particular marine ecosystems need to be investigated in more detail. In view of this, the goal of this Research Topic is to seek manuscripts that focus on environmental behavior processes and mechanisms of organic pollutants in global coastal waters, especially the special ecosystems by the methods of simulation experiments, field studies, model analysis, etc.
This Research Topic focuses on studies (including e.g. original research, perspectives, and comprehensive review papers) that include but are not limited to the following research topics:
• The multi-media (i.e., air, water, suspended particulate matter, sediment, and organisms) migration, medium partitioning, and accumulation of organic pollutants in particular marine ecosystems.
• The transformation processes (e.g., photochemical transformation, biotransformation, microbial degradation) and their micro-mechanism of organic pollutants in the special marine ecosystems
• Analysis of key controlling factors (e.g., environmental factors) of the migration and transformation of organic pollutants
• Ecological remediation of organic pollutants in the typical offshore ecosystems
Keywords: emerging pollutants, coastal ecological environment, migration and transformation, organism degradation
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