Zooplankton Diversity and Pelagic Food Webs: Investigating Present and Past with Different Techniques
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 (23 December 2019) | Viewed by 42528
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecology of freshwater zooplankton and analysis of zooplankton resting stages in lacustrine sediment, ecotoxicology, stable isotope analyses, and aquatic food webs
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Interests: ecology; ecotoxicology
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Interests: ecology of lakes; planktonic food webs; freshwater chemistry; long-term limnological studies; anthropogenic and climate impacts on pelagic communities
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Interests: zooplankton ecology; lakes, ecosystem functioning; Anthropocene; climate change; climate and trophy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Zooplankton are of key importance in the structure and functioning of aquatic food webs. They contribute to a large part of the functional and structural biodiversity of predator and prey plankton communities. Promptly responding to long-term and seasonal changes in the physical and chemical environment, they are sensitive indicators of patterns and mechanisms of impact drivers, both natural and human-induced. In this volume, we aim at presenting evidence for both long-term and seasonal changes in zooplankton community structure and dynamics, investigating different approaches, from population dynamics to advanced molecular techniques and reconstructing past communities from subfossil remains in lake sediments.
Dr. Roberta Piscia
Prof. Dr. Roberta Bettinetti
Dr. Barbara Leoni
Dr. Marina Manca
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- zooplankton
- ecosystem functioning
- aquatic food webs
- population dynamics
- functional biodiversity
- C &N stable isotope analyses
- persistent pollutants
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