Marine Biodiversity Observatory Systems
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 June 2021) | Viewed by 458
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial ecology; marine biology and ecology; marine biodiversity; functional diversity and bioinformatics
Interests: benthic ecology; benthic biodiversity; population genetics/genomics; seascape genetics/genomics; conservation biology
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Interests: PCR; cloning; molecular biology; genomics; Genetics; next generation sequencing; biodiversity & conservation; population genetics; evolutionary biology; marine biology
Interests: PCR; DNA; ecology; environmental microbiology; marine biology; microbial ecology; microbial culture; microbial diversity; plankton ecology; marine microbiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine biodiversity provides ecosystem services that are essential to human health. More specifically, prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities are the foundation of the majority of these services. However, biodiversity is facing changes due to anthropogenic activities, climate change, invasive alien species, and natural variation. To be able to predict early-warning signals and tipping points regarding ecosystem resilience, it is required to combine observation and recording of both the biodiversity and the functional potential of an ecosystem through time. Marine biodiversity observatory systems address this need as they are sites subjected to long-term scientific research using both traditional and novel approaches in biodiversity monitoring, with the latter exploiting environmental DNA (eDNA) and RNA (eRNA) (e.g., metabarcoding, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics). Thus, traditional biodiversity assessment approaches are complemented by newer ones in an attempt to comprehensively catalogue all organisms present and enhance the sensitivity of the observation.
Dr. Christina Pavloudi
Dr. Katerina Vasileiadou
Dr. Georgios Kotoulas
Dr. Ioulia Santi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental DNA (eDNA)
- metabarcoding
- ecosystem services
- climate change
- invasive alien species
- monitoring
