Eutrophication Management in Coastal Zones for Better Water Quality

Dear Colleagues,

Estuaries and coastal waters in the Anthropocene have experienced eutrophication, which has deteriorated estuarine and coastal ecosystems across the globe through a series of consequential events such as algal blooms, hypoxia, mortality of aquatic organisms, etc. In the meantime, water quality improvement in some coastal regions has been accelerated by reducing contamination from river discharge and developing sewage treatment techniques. A majority of coastal organisms are required to adapt to either worsened, recovered, or improved environments, or migrate to locales where they can thrive. It is critically important to understand how aquatic organisms in different trophic levels respond to water quality changes and how ecosystem functional traits shift with these changes. This will be of great interest to water resource managers and policy makers for eutrophication management in coastal zones for better water quality worldwide. This Special Issue invites contributions to address the following research topics: the ecological and physical dynamics of aquatic organisms in response to water quality changes, consequential biogeochemical cycles, impacts on aquatic food webs, spatial/temporal shifts of distribution, shifts in ecosystem functions, biogeochemical and hydrodynamic models, aquatic food web models, and ecological network analysis.

Prof. Dr. Yoonja Kang
Dr. Yun-Ho Kang
Dr. Hee Yoon Kang
Guest Editors

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