Special Issue “Biological Monitoring of Pollution in Water Environment“
Special Issue Editor
Prof. Małgorzata Rajfur (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4544-9819)
Guest Editor
Institute of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, University of Opole, Opole, Poland
Interests: biomonitoring with the use of algae, mosses and lichens; environmental monitoring; environmental chemistry; heavy metals; absorption atomic spectrometry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In modern methods of environmental quality research, biological indicators are becoming a permanent element of evaluation. The biological indicators of water quality include, among others, algae and angiosperm plants. These organisms show measurable morphological changes due to physicochemical changes in the ecosystems in which they live. In their organisms, they accumulate large amounts of pollutants, especially heavy metals. This enables the designation of zones with relatively different levels of pollution and the determination of the sources of pollution and the directions of its spread.
The challenges include the validation of biomonitoring methods and demonstration that biomonitoring can effectively compete with classical methods of monitoring surface water quality.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of the latest trends in monitoring biological surface water. The subject of the issue will concern new discoveries and achievements in the biomonitoring of aquatic ecosystems, including the validation of research procedures, the quality assurance and quality control of biomonitoring research results, the use of chemometric techniques in the analytical evaluation of biological samples, and the use of biological monitoring to assess pollution by heavy metals, PAHs and microplastics.
Prof. Małgorzata Rajfur
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Biological monitoring
- Passive and active biomonitoring
- Water bioanalytics
- Correlations between water monitoring and biomonitoring
- Pollution: heavy metals, PAHs and microplastics
- Aquatic plants as a pollution biosorbent
- The chemometric analysis of biomonitoring research results.
Link to the special issue:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/Biological_Monitoring
