Soil Arthropod Biodiversity Conservation in Urban Ecosystem
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2025) | Viewed by 262
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Dear Colleagues,
Urbanization transforms natural ecosystems, creating an environmental mosaic, characterized by native vegetation sites mixed with constructed sites, becoming one of the foremost challenges for the conservation of biodiversity in urban green areas. Soil arthropods comprise a substantial portion of soil biodiversity and regulate processes in the soil ecosystem. The study of soil arthropods' adaptive characteristics and processes to urbanization development is of great significance to increase the new theoretical understanding of biodiversity conservation in urban areas as well as conservation practices.
The editor of this Special Issue welcomes submissions of both original research and synthetic reviews, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) analyses of urban soil arthropod community structure; (2) analyses of urban soil arthropod community biodiversity; (3) analyses of the connection between urban soil arthropod community and environmental/anthropogenic drivers; (4) analyses of urban soil arthropod community changes over time; and (5) analyses of urban soil arthropod genomics and genetics.
Studies about any type of urban soil arthropod are welcome, with a focus on biodiversity conservation.
Dr. Hongyi Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil arthropod
- urban ecosystem
- biodiversity conservation
- genomics and genetics
- population ecology
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