Research on the Carbon and Water Cycle in Aquatic Ecosystems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 737
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon cycling; carbon budget; climate change; aquatic ecosystem; ecohydrology; greenhouse gas emission
Interests: inland water carbon cycle; carbon production and emission; greenhouse gases; carbon metabolism; carbon budget; phytoplankton; primary productivity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cabon (C) and water act as the fundamental driving forces of the earth system. The movement of water drives the biogeochemical cycle of carbon. The land-to-ocean aquatic continuum (LOAC), constituted by rivers, lakes, estuaries, tidal wetlands, and continental shelf waters, is recognized as an important pipeline and reactor for different forms of natural C, such as dissolved organic carbon (DOC), particulate organic carbon (POC), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), particulate inorganic carbon (PIC), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4). LOAC C cycling involves multiple biological, chemical, geological, and physical processes from different interfaces between land, water, and atmosphere. As we are limited by observational data and assessment methodology, there still exists a large knowledge gap in understanding the biogeochemical processes and associated drivers of LOAC C cycling.
This Special Issue in Water aims to document the most recent advances in understanding aquatic ecosystem C cycling. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) observation, simulation, and evaluation of the multi-interface and multi-process C cycling (such as C evasion, C burial, C transportation, and C metabolism) in aquatic ecosystems;
(2) the C flux and budget of aquatic ecosystems ranging from regional to global scales;
(3) the coupling mechanism between the hydrologic process and C cycling;
(4) the response of aquatic ecosystem C biogeochemistry to climate change and human activities.
Dr. Kun Sun
Dr. Junjie Jia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aquatic ecosystem
- inland water
- carbon cycle
- carbon budget
- carbon metabolism
- biogeochemistry
- ecohydrology
- greenhouse gas emission
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