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Ecosystem Monitoring: Collective Eco-Environmental Information for Nature-Based Solutions
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Dear Colleagues,
Ecological monitoring is an increasingly important factor for sensing ecosystem shifts and for ecosystem management aiming to preserve ecosystem function and associated services under climate and anthropogenic pressures. This Topic focuses on ecosystem monitoring considering ecological indicators of species and communities (particularly related to collective dynamics and its organization, e.g., via entropy characterization, environmental indicators such as water–soil–air features and their disturbance, as well as the nexus between ecological, environmental and social dynamics to understand their linkage, anticipate and control ecosystem shifts via nature-based solutions. Emphasis is also placed on social-policy decisions, technology related to novel sensors, ecological monitoring networks, multiscale data (phenotypical, phylogenetic, eDNA, macroecological, etc.), data fusion, pattern analysis, and inference models for the extraction of salient predictive information and ecosystem engineering (ecological and environmental engineering techniques for natural and man-made ecosystems). Preference is given to ecosystems where the nexus between water and ecology is emphasized (rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.) and the linkage among habitats (e.g., for blue-carbon habitats at the land–ocean interface) and how these connections can be engineered to determine desired climatic and socio-ecological feedback such as increases in carbon sequestration, population health, natural resources, and economic returns due to hazard reduction.
Dr. Matteo Convertino
Dr. Jie Li
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- ecosystems
- environment
- ecology
- monitoring
- sensing
- models
- predictions
- information
- networks
- collective
- dynamics
Participating Journals
Journal Name | Impact Factor | CiteScore | Launched Year | First Decision (median) | APC | |
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Entropy
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2.7 | 4.7 | 1999 | 20.8 Days | CHF 2600 | Submit |
Environments
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3.7 | 5.9 | 2014 | 23.7 Days | CHF 1800 | Submit |
Land
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3.9 | 3.7 | 2012 | 14.8 Days | CHF 2600 | Submit |
Remote Sensing
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5.0 | 7.9 | 2009 | 23 Days | CHF 2700 | Submit |
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