Impacts of Environmental Change and Human Activities on Aquatic Ecosystems, 2nd Edition
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: 15 November 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: isotope geochemistry; ecological risk assessment; heavy metal pollution; organic pollution
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hydrology; hydro-geochemistry; water chemistry; water quality; aquatic geochemistry; isotopic geochemistry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hydrology; hydro-geochemistry; aquatic ecology; aquatic geochemistry; isotopic geochemistry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquatic ecosystems have faced unprecedented challenges in recent years due to natural environmental changes and human activities. Climate change, shifts in precipitation patterns, and occurrences like droughts, extreme rainfall, rising global temperatures, and ecosystem degradation have had extensive and profound impacts on aquatic ecosystems. These changes have resulted in the loss of biodiversity, habitat destruction, and the disruption of ecological processes. Excessive industrialization, urbanization, agricultural production, and other unsustainable human activities have led to the degradation of water quality and aquatic ecosystems, further disturbing their balance.
This Special Issue aims to outline our understanding of the impacts of natural environmental changes and human activities on aquatic ecosystems and the approaches to resolve these issues, providing important theoretical and practical pollution control and sustainable development solutions. This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles, and its scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- The monitoring and assessment of hydrogeological changes.
- The management and conservation of aquatic ecosystems.
- Pollutant migration and risk assessment.
- The sustainable development of aquatic ecosystems.
Dr. Jian Hu
Prof. Dr. Guilin Han
Dr. Qian Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aquatic ecosystems
- migration and transformation
- source identification
- risk assessment
- sustainable development
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