Hydrology and Ecology of Isolated Pools and Wetlands
A special issue of Limnological Review (ISSN 2300-7575).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 65
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, focusing on the hydrology and ecology of isolated pools and wetlands, will provide a platform for interdisciplinary limnological research focused on vernal pools, ephemeral springs and wetlands, and other spatially isolated small water bodies not connected to a larger stream network. These pools and wetlands serve as highly valuable limnological environments and aquatic habits because of the protection from predation that they offer to juvenile amphibian populations that otherwise live in terrestrial environments. Many of these populations are under threat of extinction globally and are the focus of numerous conservation efforts worldwide. Because of their small size as water bodies, pools’ conservation value per area protected is extremely high, and a better understanding of their hydrological and ecological functioning is needed to better inform conservation and land management. This small relative size and depth also mean they are often the first water bodies lost or gained as regional climates change or become more extreme. A better understanding is needed on how these environments function as aquatic habitats and the hydrological controls leading these water bodies to form, persist, and remain resilient under anthropogenic changes. This Special Issue is designed to provide a means by which researchers around the world can communicate their findings and through which practitioners and managers can access current scientific data in an open access forum. We welcome your submissions, and we look forward to constructively reviewing and evaluating your findings.
Dr. Zion Klos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vernal pools
- ephemeral pools
- ephemeral springs
- ephemeral wetlands
- isolated water bodies
- isolated wetlands
- amphibian conservation
- ecohydrology
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