Response of Aquatic Ecology in Lentic Waters to Changing Climate Conditions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (9 September 2023) | Viewed by 4657
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Interests: algae blooms; water resources management; eutrophication processes; water quality modeling; physical limnology
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Interests: geo-spatial analysis; satellite image analysis; urbanization impact on lake environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change significantly affects lentic waters worldwide by raising air temperatures, wind stilling, excessive solar UV, and visible radiation, and the topic is currently a critical concern for the environment scientists. Due to the restriction of long-term measurements, however, previous research always focused on the hydrodynamic part (e.g., thermal stratification, water level, and lake size) while neglected the effect of climate change on the ecological one (e.g., oxygen dynamics, nutrients budget, and phytoplankton). This is one of the biggest obstacles we face to fully understand the secondary environment impacts under different climate conditions, which deserves to be closely checked. This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances to elucidate the response of aquatic ecology in lentic waters (including lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands) to historical and future climate conditions. This Special Issue focuses on the frontier field of water environmental science, and the results of planned manuscripts will provide scientific guidance for optimizing water management under the changing climate.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Long-term measurements of aquatic environmental conditions under historical climate change;
- Effects of extreme climate events (e.g., storm, heavy precipitation, heat wave, etc.) on aquatic ecosystems;
- Analysis for the sensitive climate factors related to the water quality problems in lentic aquatic ecosystems (e.g., anoxia, harmful algae bloom, brownification, etc.);
- Simulation for the changes of aquatic ecology under future climate scenarios;
- Optimization of water management strategies to mitigate negative effects of potential climate change on aquatic ecology;
- Using remote sensing tools to elucidate the response of aquatic ecology in lentic waters to climate change, from local to global scale.
Dr. Chenxi Mi
Prof. Dr. Yi Luo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aquatic ecology
- lentic waters
- climate change
- water quality simulation
- remote sensing
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