Carbon, Nutrients and Greenhouse Gases in Urban and Peri-Urban Ecosystems
A special issue of Limnological Review (ISSN 2300-7575).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1023
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquatic ecosystems in urban and peri-urban settings provide essential services to the surrounding human populations, from the provision of drinking water, irrigation water for urban farming, tourism, transport services, and hydropower generation to recreational activities such as fishing and boating. In spite of the resource and health challenges, the economic impact of urban and peri-urban vegetable and fish farming on city residents cannot be overstated. These urban ecosystems tend to be relatively more dynamic and sensitive to climate change. There is the need to understand the recycling of carbon, greenhouse gases (GHG), and nutrients in these urban ecosystems. Studies of various scales of field and laboratory investigations of the impact of climate change on urban and peri-urban ecosystems are encouraged. We invite studies investigating various carbon species including total or dissolved inorganic carbon, particulate organic carbon, total or dissolved organic carbon, and GHG such as methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide in urban ecosystems. Also, studies looking at the dynamics of various nutrients of nitrogen and phosphorus are welcomed. Studies applying analytical techniques including but not limited to fluxes, isotopic labelling or fingerprinting, mass spectrometry, and modelling are welcomed.
Dr. Prosper K. Zigah
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban ecosystem
- peri-urban ecosystem
- organic carbon cycling
- inorganic carbon cycling
- greenhouse gases
- nitrogen recycling
- phosphorus recycling
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