Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Anthropogenic Degradation and the Impacts of Restoration Efforts
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Environmental Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 1241
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine ecology; larval ecology; water column ecology;harmful algal blooms; invasive species; planktonic predator-prey interactions; metamorphosis; phenotypic plasticity; larval transport; settlement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coastal zones and estuaries are among the most attractive regions for homes, commerce, and industry, hosting 40% of the world’s population. These regions also have diverse and productive habitats and ecosystems, sources of valuable natural resources. Climate change, urbanization, eutrophication, and other anthropogenic effects are global problems that threaten to undermine these natural systems' ecological and economic value. This Special Issue seeks to document the system status, pollution sources, climate impacts, loss of biodiversity, as well as restoration and mitigation techniques, and ecosystem outcomes for estuaries and coastal zones. It will include the following:
- Documenting existing and historical environmental, ecological, and biological conditions;
- Examining sources of degradation and impacts on water quality, sediment quality, or biology;
- Modeling future outcomes of anthropogenic degradation;
- Testing experimental restoration and mitigation techniques and outcomes;
- Documenting or modeling the effects of climate change, acidification, or sea level rise;
- Reporting on the occurrences, causes, and impacts of harmful algal blooms;
- Explaining and analyzing hypoxia, fish kills, and other mass mortality events;
- Evaluating the status, decline, or restoration of water column and benthic ecosystems;
- Appraising the population biology of estuarine and coastal species, including fisheries species;
- Measuring the occurrence and effects of exotic introductions and invasive species;
- Studying sustainability in coastal and estuarine ecosystems.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research approaches may include, but are not limited to, empirical, observational, in situ, laboratory, and modeling studies.
Prof. Dr. Kevin B. Johnson
Dr. Austin Fox
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pollution sources
- climate impacts
- loss of biodiversity
- restoration and mitigation techniques
- ecosystem outcomes for estuaries and coastal zones
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