Coastal Ecosystems Under Pressure: Research on Biogeochemistry, Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Oceans".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water quality; biogeochemistry; carbon cycle; organic matter; sulfur speciation; eutrophication; in-situ sensing; electroanalytical methods; phytoplankton pigments
Interests: marine pollution; eutrophication; ocean acidification; carbon cycle; nutrient cycling; biogeochemistry; chemical oceanography; persistent organic pollutants; chromatographic method development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global coastal zones encompass extraordinary dynamics and complex interactions between natural processes and socio-economic activities at the interfaces between land, sea/ocean, and atmosphere. The boundary zone between land and sea/ocean is of great importance, as it has the highest primary productivity and biodiversity but is also vulnerable to pressures from anthropogenic activities and climate change. Coastal zones and marine ecosystems face challenges due to increasing human impacts on biodiversity and habitat degradation, as well as declining biomass, changes in water chemistry, increased eutrophication and hypoxia, increased pollution, strong impacts of water warming, and acidification. Understanding the impacts on these fragile systems and maintaining a sustainable ecosystem requires an interdisciplinary approach to research, modelling, and monitoring. In this context, we welcome contributions that expand the current state of knowledge on the pollutants and contaminants that affect coastal zones and have negative impacts. We welcome research studies that offer new perspectives and solutions for monitoring, modelling, and mitigating the negative impacts in this irreplaceable ecosystem.
Dr. Marija Marguš
Dr. Jelena Mandić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coastal zones
- eutrophication
- biodiversity
- pollution
- nutrient and carbon cycling
- hypoxia
- in situ monitoring
- contaminants
- climate change
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