Stress Ecology of Aquatic Animals

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the stress responses of aquatic animals to multiple environmental stressors across different levels of biological organization. The aquatic environment contains many stressors, both of anthropogenic and natural origin, which can have additive, cumulative, and even antagonistic effects on organisms.

This issue aims to explore how the environmental stressors, alone or in combination, affect the sustainability of aquatic animals. Contributions that examine both acute and chronic stress responses (including experimental) of organisms from the molecular to the ecosystem level, including studies on adaptation, resilience, and vulnerability, are invited.

This issue seeks to bridge gaps in the current literature by integrating multidisciplinary approaches, promoting cross-taxa comparisons, and addressing underexplored regions or species. It builds on existing work in ecophysiology, aquatic ecology, and climate impact research of effects on aquatic animals, while encouraging novel frameworks such as stressomics, stress ecology, and holistic ecosystem-based approaches.

By situating these insights within the broader context of global environmental change, this issue aims to inform aquaculture and fisheries management, conservation strategies, and policy development. Ultimately, it will contribute to a deeper understanding of how aquatic animals cope with stress and what this means for the sustainability of aquatic ecosystems.

Fishes invites interested scientists to submit manuscripts relevant to this topic. The manuscripts will undergo careful review in a short period so that all accepted papers can be published in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Albena Alexandrova
Prof. Dr. Nesho H. Chipev
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fishes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• adaptation and resilience
• aquatic pollution
• climate change impacts
• environmental stressors
• marine ecophysiology
• multi-stressor interactions