Biogeochemical Processes in the Aquatic Environment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2024) | Viewed by 1141
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aquatic microbial ecology; trophic interactions between picoplankton and nanoplankton; mixotrophic nanoflagellates; viral ecology; response of microbes to environmental changes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biogeochemical cycling not only involves the reservoirs that store elements, but also the fluxes between them and the physical, chemical, and biological factors that govern them. This has important implications for research in this field. Furthermore, numerous feedback mechanisms connect the cycles of several elements, including carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. In the biosphere, environmental forces are responsible for various changes in the composition of the biosphere and in the elemental fluxes on all timescales.
An improved understanding of the underlying processes is essential to understanding how carbon and nutrients move through the atmosphere, land, and oceans. Climate change and the increasing anthropogenic nutrient release further increase the importance of this. Microbes in the oceans contribute significantly to the global nutrient cycle, making up approximately half of the world's primary production. There are a number of microbes that are uniquely important to life and form the foundation of our biosphere. By utilizing their unique metabolisms, marine microbes can complete several biogeochemical cycles that cannot be completed by other organisms.
This Special Issue investigates the biogeochemical interactions between aquatic microbes (viruses, bacteria, algae, and zooplankton) and their environments. We invite relevant research papers that present experimental findings, field studies, new methods, theoretical approaches, and mathematical modeling. Multidisciplinary papers on biogeochemical processes in the environment and applications in biotechnology are especially encouraged.
Prof. Dr. An Yi Tsai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biogeochemical cycling
- aquatic microbes
- viruses
- bacteria
- algae
- zooplankton
- carbon
- nitrogen
