Fate and toxic effects of environmental stressors: environmental control.
The potential for toxicants to harm organisms in the environment is influenced by the physicochemistry of the substances and their environmental behaviors and transformation within ecosystems. This special issue is composed of 20 papers that report on studies which have investigated the fate and toxicity of various toxicants including engineered nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, antibiotics, pathogens, heavy metals, and agricultural nutrients. The environmental transformations of these substances and how these processes affect their toxicity are emphasized. This paper highlights the important findings and perspectives of the selected papers in this special edition, with an aim of providing insights into full-scale evaluation on the toxicity of various contaminants that exist in ecosystems. General suggestions are provided for the future directions of toxicological research.
Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China. zhuangjie@iae.ac.cn.|Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA. zhuangjie@iae.ac.cn.
Jie
J
Zhuang
School of Chemistry and Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Han-Qing
HQ
Yu
School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, John Muir Building, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK.|Department of Microbiology, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
Theodore B
TB
Henry
Department of Microbiology, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
Gary S
GS
Sayler
D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000187:drug effects; D010944:Plants / Q000187:drug effects; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000378:metabolism; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000633:toxicity*
D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
Heavy metals; Nanoparticles; Nutrient; PPCP; Pathogen; Toxicity