Marine Ecology and Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 2070
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthy marine ecosystems are essential to sustain services to humans. However, marine ecosystems are increasingly subjected to environmental fluctuation, global climate change, and multiple anthropogenic stressors, especially in coastal waters. Marine ecosystems contain complex physical, biogeochemical, biological, and ecological processes, which is a major challenge for their successful management. It has long been recognized that monitoring key processes as indicators of marine ecosystem health represents the simplest and most effective scientific tool to identify thresholds of the impacts of multiple threats on the health of marine ecosystem function. Scientific research is needed to develop practical and robust indicators of marine ecosystem health. For example, cetaceans are widely used as ocean health indicators of marine pollution impact at global scale, due to the fact that some pollutants are easily bioaccumulated and biomagnified in the top predators as cetaceans via marine food chains. Cetaceans are also known to play an important role in sustaining healthy marine ecosystems and reducing the impact of climate change. Recent studies have shown that cetaceans make a great contribution to blue carbon since they accumulate abundant carbon in their bodies during their long lives.
This Special Issue focusses on marine ecology and health. Long time-series scientific research on the ecology of marine species, communities, or the whole ecosystem using interdisciplinary methodology is strongly encouraged.
Dr. Duan Gui
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine ecosystem
- ecosystem health
- indicator of ecology and health
- environmental change
- anthropogenic impact
