Advances in Freshwater Ecology: Biodiversity, Stressors and Restoration
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 February 2027 | Viewed by 223
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Interests: freshwater ecology; nature conservation; habitat and species conservation; biodiversity monitoring; biomonitoring; ecosystem function and ecosystem services; landscape ecology; land use change; environmental impact assessment; restoration ecology
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Interests: botanic gardens; suburban gardening; biodiversity conservation; decolonization; critical theory; social studies of science
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Interests: hydrobiology; zooplankton; microplastics; freshwaters
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Freshwater ecosystems—rivers, lakes, wetlands and groundwater-dependent habitats—provide essential ecosystem services, including drinking-water supply, fisheries, flood regulation, carbon storage and cultural values. Yet, they are among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide, facing accelerating pressures from climate change, altered flow regimes and connectivity, eutrophication and harmful algal blooms, legacy and emerging pollutants (including microplastics), invasive species and habitat degradation driven by land-use change. Advancing freshwater ecology is therefore crucial for sustainable management and for protecting biodiversity and the benefits people derive from water-dependent ecosystems.
This Special Issue aims to present state-of-the-art research and syntheses that (i) enhance the understanding of freshwater ecosystem structure and functioning, from local to catchment scales; (ii) quantify ecological responses to multiple stressors across spatial and temporal scales and (iii) evaluate effective conservation, restoration and nature-based solutions. The scope directly fits the journal Sustainability by linking ecological evidence with monitoring and assessment frameworks, adaptive management and policy-relevant decision-making. Contributions are invited on, for example, biodiversity patterns and drivers, biomonitoring and ecological indicators, water-quality–ecology interactions, catchment-scale processes, ecological risk and resilience, restoration ecology and socio-ecological perspectives relevant to freshwater sustainability. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary studies using novel methods (remote sensing, trait-based and process-based models) and robust open data workflows.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Freshwater biodiversity, community ecology and trophic interactions
- Responses to multiple stressors: climate change, droughts/floods and hydrological alteration/fragmentation
- Water quality, eutrophication, nutrient cycling and harmful algal blooms
- Emerging contaminants and pollution (including microplastics) and their ecological effects
- Invasive species, diseases and biotic homogenization
- Biomonitoring and assessment: ecological indicators and remote sensing
- Restoration ecology, environmental flows and nature-based solutions
- Catchment and landscape drivers, ecosystem services and socio-ecological governance for freshwater sustainability
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Mirosław Grzybowski
Prof. Dr. Katja Neves
Dr. Magdalena Bowszys
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- freshwater ecosystems
- rivers
- lakes
- wetlands
- biodiversity
- biomonitoring
- ecological indicators
- eutrophication
- climate change
- restoration
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