Biodiversity of Coastal and Insular Marine Ecosystems
A Special Issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) belonging to the section "Marine Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 916
Editors
Interests: biodiversity and functioning of marine ecosystems; numerical ecology; marine ecology
Interests: eco-physiology and stress response of coral and associated organisms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Diversity journal is about to launch a Special Issue dedicated to biodiversity of coastal and insular marine ecosystems.
Marine ecosystems are considered to be some of the most biodiverse systems on the planet, characterized by high environmental heterogeneity and a wide range of habitat structures. This complexity supports exceptionally high levels of associated biodiversity, particularly in terms of taxonomic and functional diversity.
This Special Issue invites submissions of original research articles grounded in diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks of numerical community ecology. These articles should be applied to a broad range of biological groups, including fish, corals, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, and bacteria, among others, across shallow or mesophotic coastal and insular marine ecosystems. We welcome all studies assessing the biodiversity of one or more biological groups using qualitative and quantitative numerical approaches at local, regional, or global scales.
We invite contributions that include analyses conducted based on single sampling events with robust spatial components, time-series analysis, or studies integrating environmental variables, habitat structure, and any other factors explaining patterns of biodiversity variation. Likewise, contributions that consider predictive approaches to evaluate spatial biodiversity changes in response to climate change or other natural or anthropogenic disturbances are welcome. Articles should present a clear experimental design and incorporate analyses of alpha and beta taxonomic and functional diversity. Examples include taxonomic distinctiveness, diversity indices of order q or Hill numbers, completeness, and four-step analyses by Chao and co-workers, multidimensional methods, analyses incorporating multifunctional alpha and beta diversity metrics, additive partitioning, and any other numerical approach from a community ecology perspective.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Fabian A. Rodríguez‐Zaragoza
Dr. Alma Paola Rodriguez-Troncoso
Dr. María Rebeca Granja-Fernández
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- biodiversity assessments
- taxonomic diversity
- functional diversity
- numerical ecology
- coastal and insular marine systems
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