Research on Marine Ecology Under Environmental Changes
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: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editor
Interests: photosynthesis; microbial metabolism; carbon cycle; marine ecosystem; environmental microbiology
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Dear Colleagues,
The oceans account for the vast majority of Earth’s habitable areas, supporting a rich diversity of life and being crucial in ecological studies. Currently, the global oceans are experiencing long-term environmental changes (e.g., warming and acidification) largely due to exccesive CO2 emissions by anthropogenic activities. In addition, orgainsms in many coastal and oceanic realms have to live under stresses derived from pollution, eutrophication/hypoxia, or overfishing. Furthermore, climate changes contribute to an increased number of extreme weathers (e.g., hurricanes), which bring a variety of short-term environmental disturbances to the local communities in the surface and even deeper oceans. This Special Issue focuses on research advances in marine ecology under long-term or short-term environmental changes on either a global or regional scale and aims to improve our understanding of how marine ecosystems and organisms respond to the different types of environmental changes. This Special Issue welcomes a broad range of research types (original results, reviews, and opinions/letters). The main interests and scope of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following perspectives:
- Impacts of anthropogenic activities on the biodiversity and functionality of marine ecosystems;
- Responses of important taxa to long-term environmental changes or short-term disturbances in the ocean;
- Involvements of marine organisms in mitigating/regulating climate change;
- Mechanisms of how marine organisms cope with regular or emerging environmental stresses.
Dr. Ningdong Xie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine ecosystem
- climate change
- environmental disturbance
- environmental stress
- marine organism
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