Long-Term Dynamics of Biodiversity in Aquatic Environments

Dear Colleagues,

In the current context of rapid environmental change, aquatic environments are under combined pressures from multiple climatic and anthropogenic stresses, ranging from warming temperatures to overharvesting and contamination. These contribute to habitat degradation and can affect the structure and functions of aquatic ecosystems, starting with the erosion of biodiversity and perturbation of species assemblages. In order to better assess current alterations to aquatic biodiversity, it is necessary to rely on long-term data to differentiate annual variation from a more lasting reshaping of species assemblages and functions, and to identify and quantify differences in the rate and extent of current changes in biodiversity from those that have occurred in the past. In this issue, we wish to promote studies documenting changes in aquatic biodiversity over varying timescales, from decades to millennia, and within all types of aquatic environments. We welcome manuscripts dealing with, but not limited to:

• Tracking aquatic biodiversity dynamics through time in sedimentary archives;
• Modeling past and future aquatic biodiversity (hindcasting to forecasting);
• Long-term monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using direct (field) and indirect (satellite) approaches;
• New methods for tracking long-term dynamics of aquatic biodiversity (such as _sedaDNA);
• The long-term effects of climate change, anthropogenic activities and introduced species on aquatic biodiversity;
• Shifts in aquatic biodiversity through time in continental versus marine environments;
• Identifying the drivers of long-term aquatic biodiversity dynamics.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Life.

Dr. Emilie Saulnier-Talbot
Guest Editor

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• paleolimnology
• paleoceanography
• global change
• anthropogenic pressure
• extirpation
• extinction
• functional diversity
• α diversity
• β diversity
• species distribution