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Special Issue: Emerging advances and challenges in pesticide ecotoxicology
Ecotoxicology
Special Issue: Emerging advances and challenges in pesticide ecotoxicology
Lee Shugart 0 1 2
0 L.R. Shugart & Associates , Oak Ridge , USA
1 Joana Luísa Pereira University of Aveiro
2 Michiel Daam Universidade Nova de Lisboa
As Guest Editors of the Special Issue (SI) “Emerging advances and challenges in pesticide ecotoxicology” for the Springer's journal Ecotoxicology, we cordially invite your contribution to this SI based on your expertise in this area. Ecotoxicology emerged following the publication of Rachel Carson's “Silent Spring” in 1962 as the
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Published online: 20 March 2017
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017
It is the Editorial Policy of Ecotoxicology to periodically
publish a Special Issue to communicate to a broad
constituency of the scientific community timely information
about an important topic in the environmental sciences. A
Special Issue consists of assembled papers that both identify
and describe the status and extent of our knowledge
concerning new or existing ecotoxicological problems but also
that enhances our understanding of the effects of exposure
with possible linkages to ecological consequences. Within
the discipline of ecotoxicology, considerable attention is
directed towards the adverse impact of exposure to tailored
chemicals (in particular pesticides) with an increased
apprehension on the broadening effects for non-targeted
organisms and habitat disruption associated with their
usage. In this regard, an invitation to submit papers for a
proposed Special Issue in Ecotoxicology entitled “Emerging
advances and challenges in pesticide ecotoxicology” is
announced.
Invitation to submit manuscript abstracts for a
special issue in Ecotoxicology (Springer)
environmental branch of the field of toxicology. Its major
focus was on investigating the impacts of chemicals on
individuals with the goal of integrating exposure to effects
on populations, communities, or ecosystems. Ecotoxicology
has evolved in the past decades, resulting in several new
concepts, trends, and methodologies. The ecotoxicological
assessment of pesticides has also followed these new
developments stimulated by the unique properties of such
contaminants that are intentionally designed and released
into the environment to affect specific biological targets.
This SI invites papers dealing with one or more new
advances or challenges in pesticide ecotoxicology,
including, but not limited to:
1. More ecological approaches, e.g. extrapolating
pesticide effects from the laboratory to the field.
2. Influence of species interactions and environmental
parameters on the effects of pesticides.
3. The choice of representative test species and life
stages, e.g. to adhere to the new EU data requirements
for ecological pesticide risk assessments.
4. Spatial-temporal extrapolation of ecotoxicological
research, e.g. the influence of environmental
conditions on pesticide ecotoxicity.
5. New sub-lethal test parameters, e.g. biomarkers,
ecotoxicogenomics.
6. The influence of climate change on pesticide
ecotoxicity.
7. Pesticide mixture toxicity.
8. Landscape and ecosystem ecotoxicology.
9. Toxicokinetics/dynamics in pesticide ecotoxicology.
10. Population and food-web modelling.
11. Getting more out of old data (e.g. meta-analysis,
traitbased analysis, multivariate statistical analysis).
Completion of Peer Review for submitted manuscripts by October 14, 2017
Submission of a revised manuscript by November 15, 2017 On-line publication of accepted manuscripts by January 1, 2018
Publication of hardcopy of SI in: Ecotoxicology volume 27 ( 2 ) 2018 . (...truncated)