Impacts of Climate and Landscape Change on Ecosystem Function
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 January 2024) | Viewed by 1964
Special Issue Editor
Interests: equilibrium in landscape and ecosystems; mathematical modeling; environmental chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of ecosystems, communities, and landscapes is influenced by factors that can be divided into natural and anthropogenic. Anthropogenic activities cause changes in habitat conditions, and in many places on the planet, we have to deal with climate change’s consequences. There is always some instability within individual communities, where the functionality of whole ecosystems at different trophic levels is disrupted. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together research papers that address ecological linkages within landscapes that may be disrupted and altered by climate change. These include changes in biodiversity, species composition, water regime, soil properties, land use, and habitat chemistry. Ecosystems are also affected by changes in phenological phases, which may result in a shift of potential resources on the environmental gradient. It is essential to determine the mechanisms that determine these changes and their sequence in the whole process. Predicting the evolution of the landscape under the current regime of management and management of natural resources is essential knowledge for the design of adaptation measures in places where landscape and ecosystem changes are already occurring.
Dr. Marek Vach
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- ecosystems
- landscape
- biodiversity
- land use
- soil properties
- natural source
- water management
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