New Insights on Phytoplankton Morpho-Functional Traits
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 15049
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytoplankton; morpho-functional traits; environmental changes; phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions; intraspecific variability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Morpho-functional trait based-approach is a deeply recognized powerful tool for explaining the success of specific phytoplankton groups, including harmful species, at defined environmental conditions. It even represents a useful approach to predict phytoplankton susceptibility to grazing.
The amazing phytoplankton morpho-functional trait variability and the relative trade-offs represent the best adaptive strategy to cope with the strong variability of the pelagic environment. Although a great scientific effort is being made on this issue, to date there are still many open questions on which phytoplankton set of morpho-functional traits can be the best proxy of phytoplankton distribution along environmental gradients, as well as of community interactions. Furthermore, the extent and the role of phytoplankton intraspecific morpho-functional trait variability and trade-offs in community responses to environmental and biological changes remain almost unknown.
As Guest Editors, we warmly encourage authors to submit their manuscripts with new insights on phytoplankton morpho-functional trait variability along a changing environment, also including community interactions. Both experimental and field studies from any kind of aquatic ecosystems, as well as studies at both inter- and intraspecific level of variability are welcome. We retain that it will be pretty useful to understand and make predictions on phytoplankton responses to forecasted future environmental scenarios.
Dr. Silvia Pulina
Dr. Cecilia Teodora Satta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytoplankton
- morpho-functional traits
- intraspecific variability
- environmental changes
- phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions
- harmful algal species
- anthropic changes
- climate changes
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