Bioremediation in the Marine Environment
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 3468
Special Issue Editor
Interests: coastal ecosystems, with emphasis in sandy beaches; environmental quality monitoring and assessment; human impacts; contamination by trace metals; macrobenthos ecology; ecological indicators; phytoremediation of metals
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Dear Colleagues,
Human impacts in marine environments have reached a tremendous level. Accelarated by the growth of human populations that tend to settle mostly in coastal areas and by the global climatic changes that are ongoing, a vast array of environmental problems disturb the ecological balance of our oceans. Organic and inorganic pollution and anthropogenic litter in marine environments are some of the most widespread and concerning problems.
Marine biotechnology is a fundamental tool that can be used to combat marine pollution by remediating or mitigating its effects. Several marine organisms have the ability to degrade pollutants and transform them into substances with less toxicity, or even in some cases into nontoxic forms, a process known as bioremediation. Different strains of bacteria and fungi, as well as distinct species of algae and plants, are suitable bioremediators, capable of degrading or detoxifying pollutants such as crude oil components from oil spills and other organic compounds, heavy metals, xenobiotics, and even plastic waste. Bioremediation is therefore a set of emerging and promising technologies with a large potential to fight marine pollutants that deserves immediate attention as the focus of research and development.
In this Special Issue, I invite colleagues to contribute with their original research papers, short communications and review articles on all aspects of marine bioremediation and biodegradation in order to advance and disseminate the development of these environmental technologies.
Dr. Sílvia C. Gonçalves
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioremediation
- biodegradation
- marine pollutants
- marine plastic litter
- marine contaminants
- bioaugmentation
- biostimulation
- bioreactors
- eco-sustainable technologies
- environmental health status
