Diversity and Ecology of Marine Plankton and Benthos
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 275
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytoplankton; ecology; eukaryotes; diversity; symbiosis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plankton and benthos play significant roles in all water ecosystems. In the last few decades, gene diversity, taxonomy, and ecology of plankton and benthos have been topics of great interest in marine ecological studies. Global and environmental changes and human activity have had an influence on plankton and benthos in marine ecosystems. Long-term, seasonal, and short-terms plankton and benthos dynamics studies have helped us to understand their changes and responses to the environmental changes. Meanwhile, the diversity of plankton and benthos in coastal and marine has been evaluated using molecular techniques. The main purpose of this Special Issue is to showcase the diversity and taxonomy of plankton and benthos and their response to environmental changes and human activity.
We are pleased to invite you to this Special Issue, entitled “Diversity and Ecology of Marine Plankton and Benthos” of the open access Water journal . The scope of the journal leads us to focus on marine plankton’s and benthos’ diversity and ecology, including community structure, gene diversity, phylogenies, taxonomy, and ecology of prokaryotes and eukaryotes, as well as on the morphology and biomarker methods to identify the marine plankton and benthos. Additional, approaches such as remote sensing are welcome.
This Special Issue aims to show the importance of plankton and benthos in marine ecosystems. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: morphology and genetic analysis; phylogenies, water and segmental eukaryotes and prokaryotes; environmental factors; ecology; and long-term, seasonal, and short-term plankton and benthos dynamics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Dajun Qiu
Dr. Lianming Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plankton
- benthos
- eukaryotes
- prokaryotes
- ichthyoplankton
- diversity
- phylogenies
- dynamics
- ecology
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