Tracking Responses of Stream Ecosystems to Global Change at Different Scales

Dear Colleagues,

There is no doubt that global change induced by human activity and its consequences on climate and other environmental factors constitute the challenge of this century for humanity.

Achieving the sustainability of our ways of life as human societies is part of that challenge. Global change has consequences on river ecosystems, from arid to tropical zones, and from temporary rivers in temperate environments to temporarily frozen rivers in boreal environments. On the other hand, rivers, whether as a source of water or food, or serving as a sewer, are intensively managed by humans, suffering very important consequences in terms of their ecosystem role.

For the sake of their own survival as well as that of the ecosystem services that they provide, it is more urgent than ever to understand how river ecosystems function, to monitor their response to the changes in this new era that has been called Anthropocene, and to design our own response as a society to the problem of alterations in river ecosystems.

This Special Issue aims to present the state-of-the-art in the science of global change in rivers, the main problems identified in this field and their trends, as well as the assessment of the different possible strategies to face this great challenge.

Dr. José M. Santiago
Dr. Carlos Alonso
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.