Ecological Restoration in Marine Environments
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2024 | Viewed by 556
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transitional and coastal waters; environmental impact assessment; ecological and chemical status quality; statistical data analysis; ecological restoration; water framework directive; climate change
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: transitional waters; restoration of coastal lagoon; monitoring human impact; water framework directive; environmental lagoon management; nature-based solutions; climate change; ecological status quality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, many marine and coastal ecosystems have experienced a decrease in their environmental status. Multiple stressors, such as pollutants, excess of nutrient inputs, fishing and harvesting of aquatic resources, shipping activities and some recreational activities, direct destruction or reduction in habitats, and other ecosystem alterations, as well as issues related to climate change, such as sea-level rise, coastal squeeze and erosion, can impact biological processes, alter ecosystem functions and decrease global and local biodiversity. The protection and restoration of these ecosystems are a high priority. Thus, they may recover from anthropogenic perturbations by following natural restoration. Otherwise, anthropogenic interventions can redirect the recovery through ecological restoration.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together scientific studies carried out on ecological restoration in marine, coastal and transitional waters. Submissions on the following issues related to ecological restoration, among other issues, are welcome:
- Case studies;
- New approaches to assess goals’ restorative activities;
- Remediation of impacted areas;
- Restoration ecology: address causes and study the process;
- Nature-based solutions;
- Ecological service assessment in restoration;
- Eco-engineering measures.
Dr. Federica Cacciatore
Dr. Rossella Boscolo Brusà
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- marine, coastal and transitional waters
- habitat status
- wildlife/species
- ecological services
- nature based solutions
- environmental restoration
