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ClearEditorial: Impacts of emerging contaminants and their ecotoxicological consequences
This editorial introduces a research topic examining how emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems harm wildlife and disrupt ecosystems, especially when multiple stressors combine. The collection covers ten studies on contaminants including microplastics and their ecotoxicological effects at environmentally relevant concentrations.
Editorial: Marine Pollution - Emerging Issues and Challenges
This editorial introduces a research collection on emerging marine pollution issues, covering microplastics, chemical contaminants, and their biological impacts, and highlights the need for interdisciplinary approaches to address the growing diversity and geographic spread of pollutants entering ocean ecosystems.
Sources, Risks, and Remediation Technologies of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments
This editorial introduces a special issue focused on pollutants in aquatic environments, covering their sources, ecological risks, and cleanup technologies. The collection addresses contamination from industrial wastewater, agricultural runoff, and urban sewage, including emerging pollutants like microplastics. The work highlights the need for continued research into effective remediation strategies to protect water quality and aquatic ecosystems.
Editorial: Biogeochemical behavior and biological response of environmental contaminants
This editorial introduces a research collection on the biogeochemical behavior of environmental contaminants including microplastics and their biological effects on aquatic organisms. Understanding how contaminants cycle through ecosystems is essential for assessing human exposure and health risks.
Editorial: (Micro)Plastics and the environment
This editorial introduces a research focus on microplastics and plastics in aquatic environments, highlighting gaps in knowledge about their abundance and toxicity especially in freshwater systems. It calls for more research to establish the extent and consequences of plastic pollution beyond the well-studied marine environment.
Micro(nano)plastics in Aquatic Environments: State of the Art and Beyond
This editorial introduces a special issue on the state of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in aquatic environments. The collection brings together current research addressing the detection, distribution, and ecological impacts of these tiny plastic particles in water systems worldwide.
Editorial: Effects of microplastics on soil ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on the effects of microplastics on soil ecosystems, summarising current understanding of how microplastic particles originating from synthetic fibres, microbeads, and fragmented debris accumulate in soils and affect microbial communities, plant growth, soil structure, and water retention. The editorial highlights the importance of soil microbial communities as a key target for assessing the ecosystem-level consequences of microplastic contamination.
Special Issue on Aquatic Animal Health in Vulnerable Environments
This is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue on aquatic animal health in vulnerable environments; it is not a primary microplastics research paper, though microplastics may be among the threats discussed.
Editorial: Microbial response to emerging contaminants in soil and sediment ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on microbial responses to emerging contaminants — including microplastics, antibiotics, and heavy metals — in soil and sediment ecosystems. Researchers highlight the importance of understanding how these contaminants interact to alter microbial community diversity, function, and ecological balance in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Editorial: Microplastics in water and potential impacts on human health
This editorial introduces a special issue on microplastics in water and their potential impacts on human health, reviewing the state of knowledge and key unanswered questions in the field.
Emerging contaminants and nanoplastics in the water environment: a matter of rising concern
This editorial introduces a scientific journal focused on emerging contaminants and nanoplastics in water environments, highlighting these as rising concerns for water quality and human health. The journal aims to advance knowledge on the detection, fate, and effects of plastic pollution in aquatic systems.
Microplastics Pollution: An Intending Threat for Aquatic Ecosystem Sustenance
This review summarizes sources, distribution, and ecological impacts of microplastics in aquatic environments, highlighting how ingestion by fish and shellfish and associated chemical toxicity pose growing threats to aquatic ecosystem health.
Editorial: Emerging challenges and solutions for plastic pollution
This editorial introduces a special journal section on emerging challenges and solutions for plastic pollution in marine environments, summarizing the research themes covered in the collection. The collection addresses both the science of plastic contamination and practical approaches to reducing its environmental and health impacts.
Advancements in Biomonitoring and Remediation Treatments of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments, 2nd Edition
Not relevant to microplastics — this is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue on biomonitoring and bioremediation of aquatic pollutants broadly, covering toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and biological contaminants rather than focusing specifically on microplastics research.
Feature Papers in Ecotoxicology
This editorial introduces a collection of feature papers in ecotoxicology, reflecting on the discipline's evolution as a key scientific field for assessing the impacts of both traditional and emerging contaminants — including microplastics — on ecosystems. The collection highlights recent advances and emerging challenges in evaluating pollutant effects across biological and environmental systems.
Environmental Impact of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review of Current Research and Future Directions
This review examines microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, covering chemical, biological, and ecological processes beyond simple physical contamination and identifying priority areas for future research directions.
Plastic Pollution is a Serious Menace to Ecosystem Health with Special Reference to Aquatic Ecosystems and its Associated Challenges, Opportunities, and Mitigations
This review examines how plastic pollution, including microplastics, threatens aquatic ecosystem health, affecting fish, birds, and mammals through ingestion, entanglement, and chemical exposure. Researchers highlighted that our understanding of microplastic dynamics — their release, retention, accumulation, and transfer across ecosystems — remains limited. The study calls for more research into the long-term ecological consequences of microplastic contamination in aquatic environments.
Editorial: Microbial Ecotoxicology Advances to Improve Environmental and Human Health Under Global Change
This editorial introduces a special journal issue on microbial ecotoxicology, highlighting how microorganisms are affected by environmental contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and other emerging pollutants. Understanding microbial responses to pollution is critical for assessing broader ecosystem and human health risks.
Editorial: Legacy & emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment—bridging knowledge, policy, and future
This editorial introduces a research collection bridging knowledge, policy, and future directions on legacy and emerging aquatic contaminants, addressing how persistent pollutants such as PCBs, DDT, mercury, and microplastics coexist and interact in water bodies despite regulatory action. The collection calls for integrated monitoring frameworks that account for mixture toxicity and the persistence of banned substances in sediments and biota.
Editorial: Coastal and marine environmental quality assessments
This is an editorial introducing a journal collection on coastal and marine environmental quality assessments. It provides context for a series of research articles on monitoring and evaluating the health of marine ecosystems, including those affected by plastic pollution.
Editorial: Bridging the Gap between Policy and Science in Assessing the Health Status of Marine Ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection focused on bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing health impacts of environmental contaminants including microplastics. It highlights the need for better integration of scientific evidence into regulatory and public health decision-making frameworks.
Editorial: Recent research advances on heavy metals, microplastics, persistent organic pollutants, and solid waste in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on recent advances in the study of heavy metals, microplastics, persistent organic pollutants, and solid waste contamination in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. It highlights emerging themes in environmental toxicology and pollution science published in Frontiers in Environmental Science in 2024.
Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems: Challenges and Perspectives
A comprehensive review covered the challenges and future directions for addressing microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, synthesizing knowledge on sources, fate, ecological impacts, and removal strategies. The paper provides a roadmap for research and policy priorities to reduce aquatic microplastic contamination.
Editorial: Impact of microplastics on soil health and plant physiology in agricultural ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on microplastic impacts in agricultural soil ecosystems, highlighting how plastic contamination alters soil biogeochemical processes, microbial activity, and plant physiology, and calling for a precautionary approach to plastic use in farming.