Aquatic Biodiversity Challenges in the Third Millennium

Dear Colleagues,

The highly complex matrix of stressors of the third millennium playing a driving role in changing aquatic ecosystem biodiversity, specifically including aquatic animals, needs to be studied employing identification, inventory, assessment of interactions and impacts, monitoring and management techniques within different spatial and temporal contexts.

This Special Issue intends to stress the importance of this subject area and the implications of the obtained results for environmental structure and function conservation, protection and restoration practice, specifically related to the aquatic animals. We welcome both classic and innovative valuable research approaches which aim to communicate recent advances in the aquatic biodiversity habitats, species, populations, associations, communities, biocoenosis, ecosystems, etc., from local to global, and from short- to long-term perspectives.

Aquatic animals, priceless natural resource builders of the humankind, are ecologic indicators of the state of the Blue Planet and an oracle of our common fate. The third millennium will have its own chance to keep us together alive or let the floating wonders survive and thrive and make us vanish.

Dr. Doru Bănăduc
Guest Editor

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• aquatic biodiversity: assessment, monitoring, conservation and management
• aquatic habitats—biodiversity interrelations
• aquatic biodiversity and alien species
• food web interactions and aquatic productivity
• wetlands biodiversity
• research methods in aquatic ecology / biodiversity
• ecologic reconstruction and the biodiversity
• human impact and the aquatic biodiversity
• toxicology
• global changes