Ecometabolomics
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 24791
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Interests: chemical ecology; ecotoxicology and metabolomics; reserves and flows of carbon and nutrients; species interactions
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Interests: biodiversity; terrestrial ecosystems; global ecology; global change; climate change; pollution; atmosphere-biosphere; biogenic volatile organic compounds; remote sensing; plant ecophysiology; functioning and structure of terrestrial plants and ecosystems; chemical ecology; ecometabolomics; microbial ecology; macroecology and evolutionary ecology; biogeochemistry with special focus on phosphorus; environmental sustainability; food security and global health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ecometabolomics is an emerging tool for ecological and environmental sciences. It aims to provide knowledge of the metabolic mechanisms underlying the responses of organisms, communities, and ecosystems to environmental shifts. Ecoetabolomics is especially timely now in the frame of current global change. The number of studies on this topic has exponentially grown since only ten years ago, when only a few seminal studies had begun to couple metabolomics to ecological studies in field conditions. This Special Issue of Metabolites on “Ecometabolomics” aims to provide the status-of-the art of Ecometabolomic studies, firstly presenting the most powerful metabolomic analysis techniques (different analytical platforms, tools for data processing and statistical analysis, sampling, and sample preparation) to be used as metabolomics analytical tools in ecological studies in field conditions. Second, this Special Issue aims to provide an overview of current studies showing the successful use of ecometabolomics in organisms’ responses to abiotic and biotic environmental changes in field conditions. Third, it aims to present the ecological and environmental studies where ecometabolomics can be of key use in the coming years. Manuscripts dealing with other pertinent challenging metabolomics issues are also highly desired.
Dr. Jordi Sardans
Prof. Dr. Josep Peñuelas
Dr. Albert Gargallo-Garriga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Ecometabolomics
- Bioelements and metabolism
- Biomarkers
- Metabolomic modeling
- Atmospheric metabolome
- Soil metabolome
- Stress metabolome
- Ecometabolomic data bases
- Environmental metabolome
- Metabolomic niche
- Metabolomics and transcriptomics
- Metabolomics and phyllosphere
- Metabolomics and gut microbiota
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