Harmful Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: Identification and Ecological Impact
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2023) | Viewed by 2901
Special Issue Editor
Interests: development and application of bioinformatics programs; mechanisms of harmful algal blooms based on comparative genomics; genomic analysis of marine organisms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Worldwide, marine ecosystems are experiencing a wide range of adverse blooms with drastically different features, including red tides, green tides, brown tides, golden tides, and jellyfish blooms. These unprecedented events are caused by diverse organisms, some of which are known suspects, while others are not. The precise and effective identification of these harmful organisms found in the marine ecosystems represent the very first critical step towards understanding and thus mitigating these adverse blooms. In particular, combined morphological features and molecular marker sequences of these harmful organisms are becoming the emerging consensus with regard to species identification, and the molecular markers obtained are becoming critical references supporting the metabarcoding analysis of bloom species. In addition, understanding the nature of these harmful organisms paves the way toward the understanding and evaluation of their ecological impact.
The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight current progress in the identification of various harmful organisms using cutting-edge morphological and molecular approaches, and in the understanding and evaluation of their ecological impacts.
Prof. Dr. Nansheng Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- red tide/green tide/brown tide/golden tide/jellyfish bloom/harmful algal bloom
- diatom/dinoflagellate/Ulva/HAB species
- toxin/toxicity
- molecular marker
- genomics/metabarcoding
- taxonomy
- aquaculture
- diversity
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