Polar Microbiome Facing Climate Change
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2025) | Viewed by 3245
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine microbial ecology; biogeochemistry; microbes and climate change; microbial community structure; arctic ocean
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polar environments are facing profound changes linked to climate change, warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and being impacted by the melting of sea ice and glaciers, the thinning of ice sheets, the thawing of permafrost, marine and terrestrial heat waves, etc. The entire Arctic and Antarctic biosphere is under threat from these disturbances. It is pertinent to study the response of microbial communities to these environmental changes as microorganisms play a crucial role in biogeochemical processes, functioning as both consumers and emitters of greenhouse gases, thus contributing to the sustainability of the planet. The diversity of these microorganisms, their genetic and physiological traits that allow them to live and compete at low temperatures, their spatial and temporal dynamics and their impact on element cycling are all subjects at the heart of current research in polar microbiology. Studying these aspects could facilitate our application of microbial communities in climate prediction models and our use of them as possible sentinels of the evolution of polar environments, without forgetting the discovery of new molecules of biotechnological or medical interest from these cold-adapted microorganisms.
For this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of original research work on all components of microbial communities (bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, and viruses) and on all polar ecosystems (marine environments, ice, freshwater, and soils).
Dr. Fabien Joux
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polar microbiology
- polar environment
- climatic changes
- bacteria
- archaea
- phytoplankton
- fungi
- viruses
- protists
- cold ecosystems
- adaptation
- acclimatation
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