The Impact of Water Environment Changes on Freshwater Fish Species
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 August 2023) | Viewed by 1933
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fish behavior; fish biology and ecology; biodiversity conservation; phenotypic plasticity
Interests: freshwater ecosystems; freshwater fish; invasions and non-native species; freshwater habitat restoration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We live in a rapidly changing world, and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems are expected to intensify in the future, especially under conditions of increasing globalization and under current climate change scenarios. Freshwater ecosystems, which host an extraordinary variety of fish species among numerous other organisms, are particularly susceptible to the impacts of environmental change. Changes in the water environment, whether natural or human-induced, such as fluctuations of abiotic factors (temperature, salinity, turbidity, etc.), pollution and eutrophication, or water stress and biological invasions, can have significant acute and/or long-term effects on many aspects of the life of fish fauna (development and life history, growth and survival, behavior, morphology and physiology) and at different levels of organization (at species, population, and/or community/assemblage level). The theoretical and practical implications of these impacts are numerous and of great importance, both from a scientific scope and from a societal and economic scope.
In this Special Issue, we invite contributions from all relevant research fields, investigating how changes in the freshwater environment influence fish species around the world. These include laboratory studies, focusing on the effects of specific biotic and/or abiotic factors, but also field studies looking at environmental change impacts at a larger scale. Brief communications, reviews, regular research articles, and meta-analyses will all be considered for publication.
Dr. Ioannis Leris
Dr. Eleni Kalogianni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- freshwater ecosystem
- fish assemblage
- anthropogenic pressures
- habitat degradation
- biodiversity conservation
- fish communities
- climate change
- temperature
- turbidity
- salinity
