Wetland Ecosystems (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Wetlands are known as the 'gene pool of species' and have important ecological service functions, playing a significant role in maintaining biodiversity, sequestering carbon, reducing emissions, and mitigating and preventing natural disasters. Although the area is rather small compared to many other terrestrial ecosystems, wetlands contribute to more than 20% of the total value of ecosystem services globally, exceeding the contributions from terrestrial forests and coral reefs. However, they are facing serious degradation caused by both anthropogenic and natural factors such as environmental pollution and biological invasion, not only posing a threat to wetland biological communities but also quantitatively and qualitatively affecting nutrient cycling, energy flow, and other functions of ecosystems.

Wetlands represent a particularly important research area that is increasingly receiving public attention and protection. This research is critical to the improvement of wetland function-effect predictability and management.

We invite submissions on wetlands from a range of disciplines. They can be based on field observations, modeling, laboratory experiments, and/or geospatial techniques. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: biological invasion, pollution, carbon sink function, the biogeochemical cycle of biogenic elements, ecosystem services, population dynamics, community ecology, global climate change, soil microbial communities, the function of the soil microbiome, the environmental adaptation mechanisms of wetland organisms, wetland landscape, and wetland degradation.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Jian Li
Dr. Chenglang Pan
Dr. Qiang Wang
Guest Editors

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