New Tools in Marine Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Monitoring
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 244
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change and marine ecosystems phytoplankton ecophysiology; ocean carbon cycling and biogeochemistry; ocean acidification; hypoxia; fisheries; societal impacts of climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This collection of articles aims to review state-of-the-art, fully mature, as well as emerging technologies that provide (or will in the foreseeable future) the capacity to inexpensively make quantitative observations of phytoplankton and zooplankton on varying time and space scales. The ability to obtain robust measurements of phytoplankton and zooplankton abundances, including their physiology over large to small temporal and spatial scales, is critical for a variety of reasons: 1) understanding the processes that control plankton distributions and compositions at scales relevant to conservation, sustainability and resource management efforts, 2) improving ecosystem and biogeochemical models, and 3) forecasting changes in marine ecosystems as they respond to episodic climatic events or long-term climate change. We especially welcome manuscripts that cover in situ or remote technologies, tools that exploit pigments, metabolites, DNA, optical and acoustical and several other signatures of plankton, that can be used to augment and scale up traditional sampling and microscopic enumeration methods. Manuscripts that discuss ideas regarding the integration of these disparate datasets towards a shared community goal of a holistic ocean-wide plankton observing system, that can be used for studying ocean biodiversity and conservation, processes associated with ocean primary production, fisheries, nitrogen cycling and carbon sequestration, are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Joaquim Goes
Dr. Koji Suzuki
Guest Editors
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