The current climate change scenario is increasingly affecting our oceans, resulting in shifting water mass flows and biota migration routes and, worryingly, pollutant transport dynamics, worsening toxic effects and ecological risks. Within this context, metals and metalloids are pollutants of significant concern, as they display high environmental persistence and bioavailability, may bioaccumulate along trophic chains, and many lead to a myriad of potential toxic effects. Studies regarding altered ecotoxicity and bioavailability under climate change scenarios, however, are still lacking.
This Research Topic, therefore, aims to compile studies that investigate and discuss climate change effects on metal and metalloid ecotoxicity, including experimental and theoretical assessments evaluating some of the main climate change effects, i.e., ocean acidification and increasing temperatures, among others, on metal and metalloid ecotoxicity effects in exposed biota, as well as modifications in metal and metalloid contents and bioavailability in abiotic compartments, such as sediments and the water column.
Different article types are welcome, especially reviews, mini-reviews, and original research papers. Even though abstract submission is not mandatory, we encourage interested researchers to submit one prior to submitting their manuscript. The abstracts do not have to coincide with the final submitted manuscript abstracts.
Keywords:
Climate Change, Marine Pollution, Marine Pollution Solutions, Ecotoxicity
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
The current climate change scenario is increasingly affecting our oceans, resulting in shifting water mass flows and biota migration routes and, worryingly, pollutant transport dynamics, worsening toxic effects and ecological risks. Within this context, metals and metalloids are pollutants of significant concern, as they display high environmental persistence and bioavailability, may bioaccumulate along trophic chains, and many lead to a myriad of potential toxic effects. Studies regarding altered ecotoxicity and bioavailability under climate change scenarios, however, are still lacking.
This Research Topic, therefore, aims to compile studies that investigate and discuss climate change effects on metal and metalloid ecotoxicity, including experimental and theoretical assessments evaluating some of the main climate change effects, i.e., ocean acidification and increasing temperatures, among others, on metal and metalloid ecotoxicity effects in exposed biota, as well as modifications in metal and metalloid contents and bioavailability in abiotic compartments, such as sediments and the water column.
Different article types are welcome, especially reviews, mini-reviews, and original research papers. Even though abstract submission is not mandatory, we encourage interested researchers to submit one prior to submitting their manuscript. The abstracts do not have to coincide with the final submitted manuscript abstracts.
Keywords:
Climate Change, Marine Pollution, Marine Pollution Solutions, Ecotoxicity
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.