Aquatic Toxicology publishes significant contributions that increase the understanding of the impact of harmful substances (including natural and synthetic chemicals) on aquatic organisms and ecosystems.

Aquatic Toxicology considers both laboratory and field studies with a focus on marine/ freshwater environments. The journal strives to attract high quality original scientific papers, critical reviews and expert opinion papers in the following areas:

• Effects of harmful substances on molecular, cellular, sub-organismal, organismal, population, community, and ecosystem level;
• Toxic mechanisms;
• Genetic disturbances, transgenerational effects, behavioral and adaptive responses;
• Impacts of harmful substances on structure, function of and services provided by aquatic ecosystems;
• Mixture toxicity assessment;
• Statistical approaches to predict exposure to and hazards of contaminants

The journal also considers manuscripts in other areas, such as the development of innovative concepts, approaches, and methodologies, which promote the wider application of toxicological datasets to the protection of aquatic environments and inform ecological risk assessments and decision making by relevant authorities.

Aquatic Toxicology does not publish articles that focus on the health of aquaculture organisms associated with aquaculture practices, unless these studies enhance our understanding of the potential effects of chemical stressors associated with aquaculture (e.g. pesticides use, water quality degradation) on aquatic organisms and/or ecosystems. Aquatic Toxicology does not consider articles that focus on monitoring the presence of chemicals in the environment unless these studies further investigate the impacts of the chemicals on aquatic organisms and/or ecological systems. Furthermore, studies that characterize the potential risks of contaminated fish or other aquatic food products on humans or livestock are outside of the scope of the journal.

Original Research Papers (Regular Papers)
Review Articles
Short Communications
Letters to the Editor

Editors-in-Chief
Mikko Nikinmaa
University of Turku Department of Biology, TURKU, Finland Email Mikko Nikinmaa Fish physiology, oxidative stress, temperature, hypoxia, transcriptional regulation, gene expression, evolution physiology, ecophysiology, metals, respiration
Ronald Tjeerdema
University of California Davis Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, California, United States Email Ronald Tjeerdema Environmental metabolomics, nuclear magnetic resonance, mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, multiple stressors, toxicokinetics, comparative biotransformation, early life stage bioassays, petroleum hydrocarbons, oil spill dispersants, pesticides, hazardous algal blooms, fish, invertebrates
Review Editor
Malin Celander
Gothenburg University Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Goteborg, Sweden Email Malin Celander Detoxification mechanisms, biotransformation, efflux, mixture effects, chemical interactions, cytochrome P450, nuclear receptors, gene regulation, protein functions, fish, hepatic cells
Associate Editors
Willie Peijnenburg
Leiden University Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden, Netherlands Email Willie Peijnenburg Risk assessment; Ecological risk assessment; Environmental fate and effect assessment; Nanoparticles; Bioavailability; Metals; Organics; Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs); Transformation of chemical substances; Biodegradation; Abiotic transformations
Qunfang Zhou
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology,Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China Email Qunfang Zhou emerging chemicals, endocrine disrupting effects, neurotoxicity, developmental toxicity, carcinogenesis, nanotoxicity, hemotatoxicity, adipogenesis
Claudia Wiegand
Rennes 1 University UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Rennes, France Email Claudia Wiegand
Editorial Board
Augustine Arukwe
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Endocrine disruption, Cytochrome P450s, AhR-ER interactions, Developmental toxicology, Emerging contaminants, Genomics
Carlos Barata
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain Analytical chemistry; Aquatic toxicology; Environmental risk assessment; Toxicogenomics
Mace Barron
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States Petroleum ecotoxicology and chemistry, photoenhanced toxicity, bioaccumulation, QSAR, predictive ecotoxicology, mode of action
Thomas Braunbeck
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Karen Burnett
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States Immunology, cell biology and cell signaling, genetics, transcriptomics
Kevin Chipman
University of Birmingham School of Biosciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
D.E. Hinton
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States Fish pathobiology, developmental toxicology, later life consequences, carcinogenesis, structure function, stereology, metals, nanomaterials, PAHs, mixtures
David M. Janz
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Aquatic ecotoxicology, mechanisms of developmental and reproductive toxicity in fishes, reproductive endocrinology, fish physiology
Mark Hahn
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States
Margaret James
University of Florida Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Gainesville, Florida, United States Xenobiotic biotransformation in aquatic animals, phase II metabolism, PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, endocrine disruptors, steroid – xenobiotic interactions
K.M. Kleinow
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
K.R. Cooper
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Bodil Korsgaard
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Gerald LeBlanc
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Environmental endocrine toxicology, mixtures toxicology, crustacean toxicology
Jae-Seong Lee, PhD
Sung Kyun Kwan University College of Natural Science, Suwon, Korea, Republic ofMolecular ecotoxicology, comparative genomics, rotifers, copepods, killifish, oxidative stress, mechanistic toxicity, lipid metabolism, microplastics, emerging chemicals, ocean acidification
Peeter Pärt
European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra Sector, Ispra, Italy Fish physiology, aquatic toxicology, ecotoxicology, in vitro toxicology, epithelial transport, epithelial biology, gill physiology, bioavailability
R.J. van Beneden
University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States
Francesco Regoli
Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy Marine organisms as bioindicators of chemical pollution and environmental disturbance, with particular emphasis to ecotoxicological effects, molecular and cellular responses, emerging pollutants, trophic transfer of chemicals, oil and chemical spills, vulnerability of polar areas, impact of dredging and off-shore activities, algal toxins, models of ecological risk assessmen
Daniel Schlenk
University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States Biochemical mechanisms that influence susceptibility to environmental stress, anthropogenic and natural chemicals
Helmut Segner
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Aquatic ecotoxicology, cytoprotective systems, hormone-active chemicals
Inna Sokolova
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany Environmental physiology and toxicology of marine organisms, adaptation to environmental stressors, effects of environmental change
Jennifer Stauber
CSIRO Land and Water Lucas Heights, Lucas Heights, Australia Ecotoxicology of metals; Metal bioavailability and toxicity to marine and freshwater biota; Contaminants; Chemicals risk assessment; Environmental regulation
John Stegeman
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States
Wen-Xiong Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong KongMetals, Ecotoxicology, Pollution, Biogeochemistry, Nanotoxicology
Kristie Willett
University of Mississippi Department of Biomolecular Sciences Division of Pharmacology, Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Chris Wood
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Aquatic toxicology; metals; ammonia; environmental acidification; climate change; comparative physiology; fish; crustaceans; environmental regulations
Bingsheng Zhou
Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China Fish; In vitro toxicology; Developmental and reproductive toxicology; Neurotoxicology; Oxidative stress; Molecular response and adverse outcome; Endocrine disruptors; Emerging pollutants; Nanoparticles and toxicity