Marine Biodiversity and Chemical Ecology: Population Dynamics and Natural Product Chemistry
A Special Issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) belonging to the section "Chemical Diversity and Chemical Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 704
Editors
Interests: marine
Interests: marine; diversity
Interests: marine meiofauna; bioconstructions; marine pollution; invasive species; marine biodiversity; marine protected areas
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine biodiversity includes the wide variety of organisms present in ocean ecosystems, from microorganisms to macroorganisms. This diversity is crucial for maintaining the balance and resilience of marine ecosystems. Through marine chemical ecology, we can understand how organisms interact with each other and their surroundings through the production of secondary metabolites. These natural products serve various purposes, including defense mechanisms, communication, and competition. In particular, the study of these inter- and intraspecific ecological interactions can help understand the spatio-temporal population dynamics influenced by the size, structure, and fluctuations of marine populations, including predation, reproduction, and environmental conditions. These dynamics are vital for understanding changes in biodiversity and the availability of natural resources. Finally, marine chemical ecology, in addition to studying marine natural products as a result of evolutionary adaptations of marine organisms to their environments, contributes to the search for secondary metabolites with significant biological activity, making marine organisms a rich source for discovering new drugs and biotechnology development.
This Special Issue provides a platform to highlight new research and significant advances in the understanding of marine biodiversity and population dynamics through chemical ecology and marine natural products.
Dr. Dawrin Pech-Puch
Prof. Dr. Harold Villegas Hernández
Prof. Dr. Roberto Sandulli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine biodiversity
- marine chemicals
- population dynamics
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