Sustainable Management: Plant, Biodiversity and Ecosystem
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 19 May 2025 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mycology; ecology; biodiversity conservation
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Interests: irrigation systems; water needs of plants; irrigation water needs; evapotranspiration; sustainable development; agriculture production under irrigation conditions; air–plant–soil relationship
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays we live in the age of global climate change, to which not only living beings, populations, ecosystems, but also us, human beings, must adapt. The efficiency of our plant production, animal husbandry, lawn and water management, forestry and also nature conservation activities, which have been operating for decades and even centuries, have been questioned, and in many cases they have ceased to exist. We need to rethink these activities, they need to be redesigned in the light of new environmental challenges. In this way, we must think in the complete restructuring of our relationship with living nature in order to pass on a livable environment for future generations. This is a very big and very urgent task, in short we can formulate it as the ‘sustainable management of our living environment’.
The basic purpose of this issue is to be a publication forum for the latest results of sustainable nature conservation and agricultural habitat management activities. We are looking for original research or review-type manuscripts in very diverse subject areas:
- Adaptation of plants, fungi and their communities to many kinds of changes of the environmental conditions;
- Changes in diversity, as well as in the structure of plant and fungal communities in light of new environmental challenges;
- New perspectives in sustainable forest management, transformation of forest management practices;
- New approaches in plant production and plant protection in light of new environmental challenges;
- The role of fungi-plant relationships in adaptation and their usability in agriculture, horticulture and forestry;
- Responses to the challenges of arable and horticultural water management;
- New perspectives in grassland management and new grassland management methods;
- Applicable nature conservation methods regarding the maintenance and restoration of natural and seminatural habitats.
Dr. Ferenc Pál-Fám
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Roman Rolbiecki
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- plant and fungi adaptation
- biodiversity change
- community structure
- forest management
- plant production and protection
- fungi-plant interaction
- water management
- grassland management
- habitat maintenance and restoration
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