Water Pollution: Impacts on Marine Biodiversity

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to submit a research and/or review manuscript to this Special Issue titled “Water Pollution: Impacts on Marine Biodiversity” to be published in Sustainability, an international, cross-disciplinary, peer-viewed, and open-access journal (https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/sustainability). Your expertise in this area is highly valued, and your contribution to this Special Issue will make a significant contribution to the state of science.

Almost half of global coastal and marine ecosystems are impacted by anthropogenic activities or extreme climatic events. These include effects from excessive pollution, nutrient inputs (causing hypoxia zones), overfishing, and global climate change. The mitigation of biodiversity loss due to the resulting ecosystem disruptions is a key challenge for continuing conservation efforts.

The focus of this Special Issue is on “Water Pollution: Impacts on Marine Biodiversity”. The goal of this Special Issue is to showcase studies investigating the presence of legacy or emerging pollutants (including microplastics and nanoparticles) in the marine (or near coastal) environment and assessing their effects on organismal health or marine biodiversity. This Special Issue encourages studies that quantitatively determine marine pollutants in the marine environment (water, sediments) and biota (shellfish, fish, marine mammals), and use biomarkers or population dynamics methods to assess likely impacts on organismal health or marine biodiversity. 

Taken together, the purpose of this Special Issue is to highlight current research on the fate of pollutants in the marine environment, and their impacts on organismal health and biodiversity. This Special Issue acknowledges the growing body of literature on the impacts of marine pollutants on biodiversity, and is a topic not previously presented by Sustainability.

Dr. David Hala
Dr. Saydur Rahman
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• marine pollution
• physiology
• biomarkers
• biota
• bioaccumulation
• biodiversity