Ecology and Conservation of Coastal Arthropods
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 777
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diversification; arachnology; salt marshes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coastal systems—ecotone habitats between land and sea—are especially challenging for terrestrial invertebrate species that have to cope with stressful factors, such as regular flooding and osmotic pressure. As a consequence, many specialist arthropods live in such systems, but the degree of their habitat restriction is sometimes unknown. Additionally, it often remains unclear whether arthropods live in costal habitats thanks to adaptations or to phenotypic plasticity. Because coastal systems have a linear, highly patchy distribution along the coasts, populations of specialist species are highly fragmented and face a high risk of local extinction. This, together with the existence of high anthropogenic pressures, calls for better evidence-based conservation of coastal arthropods. For this Special Issue, we welcome original research as well as review and meta-analysis papers focusing on all aspects related to the ecology and conservation of arthropods from coastal habitats (in a broad sense, i.e., including sandy dunes, salt marshes, or rocky shores), without any geographic restriction. This includes insects and other (semi-) terrestrial arthropods (e.g., spiders, myriapods, and amphipods) or mollucs (e.g., gastropods).
Prof. Dr. Julien Pétillon
Prof. Dr. Matty P. Berg
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- insects
- spiders
- amphipods
- gastropds
- salt marshes
- dunes
- ecotone habitats
- adaptation
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