Microbial Ecology in Reservoirs and Lakes
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 (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 8909
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lakes and reservoirs play an important role in transporting water, sediment, and nutrients from land to marine ecosystems. Reservoirs and lakes are regarded to store large quantities of terrestrial organic and inorganic compounds and are therefore important participants in the global biogeochemical cycle. In addition, microorganisms are generally considered to play a vital role in aquatic ecosystems, especially for planktonic bacteria and eukaryotes. Diverse lake and reservoir environments breed rich microbial diversity and resources, but their structure and function have been poorly understood until now. Microbiome and comparative genome research of reservoirs and lakes can reveal lake distribution characteristics and the formation mechanism of microbial diversity. In addition, by clarifying the composition of microbial functional genes and microbial adaptation mechanisms under extreme environmental conditions, new microbial function and metabolic pathways can be discovered. These studies will not only help to understand the structure and function of lake and reservoir ecosystems but also explain how microorganisms affect the biogenic element cycle and the mechanism of community construction. In this Special Issue, we will introduce the planktonic microecology of the lake and reservoir system and the microbial community assembly mechanism.
Dr. Lunhui Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reservoirs and lakes
- microbiome
- phytoplankton
- bacterioplankton
- functional microbes
- biogenic elements cycles
- microbial ecology
- community construction mechanism
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