Conservation of Plant Diversity and Vegetation in Island Ecosystems
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2025 | Viewed by 143
Special Issue Editors
Interests: community ecology; vegetation ecology; biodiversity; island biogeography
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Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the mechanisms that sustain biodiversity on islands has long been a central focus in community ecology and conservation biology. In 1967, MacArthur and Wilson’s Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography (ETIB) established a foundational framework for understanding island biodiversity. Ecologists have since found support for ETIB across various archipelagos and habitat islands. However, in today’s increasingly globalized world, conservation biologists have identified additional factors influencing biodiversity on islands, including anthropogenic activities, biological invasion, and global climate change. Thus, disentangling the complex factors that shape biodiversity on islands remains a significant challenge in ecology.
This Special Issue focuses on the conservation of plant diversity in island ecosystems. The scope includes marine islands, lake islands, and habitat islands. Relevant research topics may cover monitoring plant diversity and vegetation on islands, identifying factors that influence its distribution and maintenance, investigating plant–animal interaction networks on islands, exploring applications of island biogeography theory for plant conservation, and employing new technologies for plant species and vegetation monitoring and conservation. Contributions may also address the impact of human activities, such as urbanization and land use, habitat loss and fragmentation, biological invasion and climate changes on plant diversity on islands.
We invite prospective authors to submit original research articles, reviews, or short communications that specifically address scientific questions related to the plant diversity conservation and basic scientific findings in island ecosystems.
Prof. Dr. Mingjian Yu
Dr. Jinliang Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- island biogeography
- plant diversity
- vegetation
- community assembly
- functional trait
- plant-animal interactions
- habitat loss and fragmentation
- biological invasion
- climate change
- urbanization and land use
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