Microbial Food Webs
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 1199
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A microbial food web is an integrative component of the ecosystems in both pelagic and benthic zones, including both marine and freshwater habitats. Organisms that constitute the microbial food web include grazers such as ciliates and flagellates, small autotrophic protists and autotrophic and heterotrophic prokaryotes. In recent years, due to the development of observing technology and omics, knowledge of microbial food webs is exploding. In this Special Issue on microbial food webs, we encourage the submission of manuscripts in the scope of taxonomy, abundance and comparative studies of these organisms. Experimental work, field investigations and modelling studies are equally welcome. Insights about the influence of the global changes are especially valued. If possible, some efforts of alleviating global warming using microbial food webs will be discussed in this Special Issue. New technologies in microbial food web research could be introduced.
Dr. Wuchang Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microbial food web
- ciliates
- flagellates
- prokaryote
- taxonomy
- ecology
- global change
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