Response of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function to the Changing Environment and the Adaptive Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

During recent decades, increasing attention has been paid by scholars and professionals to techniques and technologies for improving ecological protection and restoration, which represent a significant percentage of the sustainable development goals. Biodiversity is an important indicator that reflect ecosystem functions, and the two are closely related to human activities. Therefore, it is very important to identify the relationship between biodiversity, ecosystem function and human activities. Additionally, it is necessary to set up indicator system to represent these three aspects.

At the same time, methods to improve ecological restoration have proven to be very challenging because of the need to develop on the one hand advanced technologies, and on the other hand those of mitigating the great pressures generated by intensive human activities. In addition, the influence mechanism of hydrological regime change on ecosystem function is still unclear.

Current research has focused on the identification of models to quantify the links between ecosystem functions and human activities, the influence mechanism of hydrological regime on ecosystem function, and methods and tools to improve ecological protection and restoration.

This Special Issue aims at enlarging this knowledge, and welcomes original research related to techniques, technologies and methodological approaches related to the protection and restoration of ecosystems, along with the impacts of changes in hydrological regimes on biodiversity and ecosystem function. The discussion of case studies, as well as of simulation works, is encouraged.

Dr. Yanhu He
Guest Editor

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• biodiversity
• ecosystem function
• human activities
• hydrological regime
• ecological protection and restoration
• influence mechanism
• models and techniques