Ocean Acidification under Multiple Stressors: Adaptation and Solutions for Coastal Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Oceans".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 6409
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oceanic multiple stressors; global change biology; ocean acidification; experimental biology; coastal biogeochemistry, ocean acidification and socio-ecological systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global stressors in oceans, such as ocean acidification, warming or deoxygenation, constitute a rapidly emerging and significant threat for marine populations, ecosystem structure and functioning, global biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem services. The increasing global footprint of human activities has driven these global environmental changes, and ocean acidification driven by the absorption of atmospheric CO2 has disturbed the delicate geochemical balance of global oceans, constituting a significant concern not only for the scientific community, but also reaching the public and political spheres.
Mitigation and adaption management strategies have reached global discussion in order to strengthen the resilience of marine ecosystems and potential capacity of oceans to provide human benefits and services. The study of a population’s habitat as a potential ocean acidification refugee for marine species, the identification of potential pathways for human adaptation and the use of new technologies, including restoration ecology involving nature-based solutions, could constitute unique challenges for reducing the vulnerability and increasing the resilience of human populations inhabiting the coastal domain.
This Special Issue intends to deepen the knowledge regarding adaptation strategies and potential local-scale solutions for ocean acidification and concomitant environmental stressors for stakeholders linked to coastal ecosystems. It is devoted to a wide spectrum of examples related to coastal ecosystems, including those studies focusing on aquaculture models and vulnerability, adaptations for local fishery communities, strategies to rebuild marine populations and restore critical processes of marine ecosystems as well as to varied levels of biological organizations from individuals and populations through ecosystems.
Contributors from different fields are invited to submit their articles on topics including, but not limited to:
- The study of the natural environmental variability of pH/pCO2 for identifying ocean acidification refugees;
- Ocean acidification and socio-ecological systems;
- Nature-based solutions for confronting ocean acidification impacts;
- Ecological restoration of ocean acidification impact.
Dr. Cristian A. Vargas
Dr. Nelson A. Lagos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human adaptation capacity of ocean acidification
- ocean acidification refugia
- ocean acidification and socio-ecological systems
- ecological restoration
- management of protected areas
- nature-based solutions
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