Editorial: thematic issue on microbial ecotoxicology of contaminants of emerging concern
Sébastien Duperron, Stéphane Vuilleumier, Kristian K Brandt, Mechthild Schmitt-Jansen, Natàlia Corcoll · 2026
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Description
Duperron and four fellow editors present in 2026 a journal issue on how microbes meet new man made taints in soil and water. The field, microbial ecotoxicology, tracks what such taints do to the smallest life, and what microbes do back. The taints span drug waste, care goods, farm sprays, tiny plastics, and germ proof genes. Many of the works were first aired at a 2024 meet in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The issue holds fourteen fresh studies, two pooled reviews, and one survey. Low dose taints star: most works test faint traces, the load wild microbes truly face. Plastics, sprays, metal grains, drugs, and algal toxins each get a lab test. The editors frame the set as a draft plan for taints still to come, like the forever chemicals now in the news. Risk calls for land and water sit at the core.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sébastien Duperron, Stéphane Vuilleumier, Kristian K Brandt, Mechthild Schmitt-Jansen, Natàlia Corcoll |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |