Taxonomy, Physiology, and Ecology of Aquatic Microorganisms
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2022) | Viewed by 4072
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aquatic microbial ecology; cyanobacteria; cyanotoxins; bacterioplankton; phytoplankton; human microbiome
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Interests: microbial community response to anthropogenic stressors (watershed land use types, eutrophication, dams, pollution) in rivers, lakes and reservoirs; monitoring, management and restoration of aquatic systems; water quality assessment
Interests: aquatic microbial ecology; food webs; biogeography; diversity
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Interests: zooplankton ecology; food web interactions in Mediterranean freshwater ecosystems; morphology, taxonomy of zooplankton organisms (rotifers, cladocera, copepoda); use of zooplankton in ecological water quality estimation; diversity and biogeographical patterns of zooplankton organisms; lake restoration and management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A great challenge facing the field of aquatic microbiology nowadays is advancing our ability to characterize microbial biodiversity at multiple levels of resolution, though driving insight into the functional potential of ecosystems for their long term management and sustainability. Microbial communities are critical components of aquatic ecosystems. Phytoplankton and bacterioplankton constitute the complementary functional components that primarily produce new particulate matter. Zooplankton organisms link the lower to the higher trophic levels in aquatic ecosystems and can respond quickly to environmental stressors which drive the worldwide change in biodiversity and ecosystems’ structure and function.
Advances in methodologies and techniques for the study of aquatic microorganisms allowed us to combine taxonomy with function and begin understanding “who is doing what” in the environment.
This Special Issue calls for contributions on the characterization of new taxa, insights into the dynamics of community composition and functional attributes responding to environmental changes, community assembly, and functional ecology across diverse aquatic ecosystems. Of special interest are papers that suggest the use of multi- and interdisciplinary approaches that combine morphological with molecular and ecological data complementarily, from the field to the laboratory and back again, driven by working hypotheses based on any aspect from ecological theory to applied research on aquatic microorganisms.
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth (Savi) Vardaka
Dr. Matina Katsiapi
Dr. Hera Karayanni
Dr. Evangelia Michaloudi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bacteria
- Archaea
- Protists
- Rotifera
- Cladocera
- Copepoda
- biodiversity
- structure-function relations
- community assembly
- management
