Change of the Terrestrial Ecosystem and River Ecosystem—Risks and Challenge
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 409
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems are already being impacted by climate change and human activities. The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) indicates that the scope and extent of the impacts of climate change on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems are larger than estimated in previous assessments. Human-made climate change leads to the deterioration of ecosystem structure, function and resilience, the transfer of biological communities, the increase in incidence and disease spread regions, the increase in wildfire burning areas and duration, the extinction of species in local areas, and the increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather. Rising temperatures will further exacerbate the serious and irreversible effects of these risks. As the same, historical human activities such as agriculture, logging, factory and hydrological conservation facilities have also impacted the above aspects of global terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems against the background of historical environmental change. These topics on impact and risk in historical and modern times are all invited for this Special Issue, especially those combining a high academic standard with a practical focus on providing optimal solutions from historical experiences or future modeling.
Dr. Yu Ye
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- terrestrial ecosystems
- freshwater ecosystems
- human activities
- impact
- risk
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