A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section Aquatic Systems - Quality and Contamination.

This Special Issue aims to present new research to advance our knowledge on all the aspects related to the proposed subject. Specifically, the topics of interest include but are not restricted to: Emerging and legacy pollutant analyses: occurrence and distribution of selected contaminants in water column and sediment; the role of the microbial community in transferring pollutants to higher trophic levels: to elucidate drivers and followers in this process and identify key-species for contaminant turn-over and accumulation; dynamics of natural microbial communities: to distinguish microbial community structure and function spatial and temporal changes; dynamics of contamination in polar and temperate aquatic ecosystems.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021 

Special Issue Editors:  Nicoletta Ademollo (CNR-ISP), Francesca Spataro (CNR-ISP),  Jasmin Rauseo (CNR-ISP) and  Luisa Patrolecco (CNR-ISP).