Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems Restoration after Disturbances

Dear Colleagues,

It is widely known that agricultural and natural ecosystems are complex and diverse. The diversity of agricultural and natural ecosystems includes soil microorganism, soil animal, and plant diversity etc. At present, the disturbance of human activities in agricultural and natural ecosystems is becoming stronger and more frequent in the context of global change. Disturbances such include fertilizer input, pesticide application, irrigation, weeding, and mechanical crushing in farmland ecosystems and deforestation, control of forest pests and diseases in forest ecosystems. This is bound to change the original structure and function of these ecosystems. Understanding the alterations and the linkages in biodiversity, biological interactions, ecological processes and ecosystem services is the basis of the development of restoration theory and measures. This Special Issue focuses on recent advances and research on theory and application of ecosystem disturbance. In this topic, we welcome all article types published by Sustainability that show the recent research on agricultural and natural ecosystems restoration after disturbances. Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts on the topic of the theory, method and practice of ecosystem restoration after disturbances. We aim to highlight new research on global change and ecosystem restoration, agro-ecology, soil microbial diversity, earthworm ecology, soil food webs, the function of soil fauna in contaminants clearing, plant–soil interactions, and ecosystem functioning.

Dr. Yuan Li
Dr. Tao Liu
Dr. Xinxing He
Guest Editors

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