Aquatic Engineering Enhancing Natural Biological Production and Purification Processes

Dear Colleagues,

Aquatic ecosystems have various roles known as ecosystem services that benefit humanity, such as providing/regulating biodiversity, food resources, and the environment. To sustainably gain such benefits, we have to not only perform restoration, but also understand the potential ability of ecosystems, stimulate activities of indigenous organisms, and suitably harvest overgrown/decommissioned organisms to enhance turnover. Our aim is to gather traditional and new aquatic engineering techniques and related knowledge on enhancing biological production and nutrients/organic removal processes in natural aquatic systems, and to discuss key organisms, habitats, resources, and ecosystem processes for the further development of engineering techniques. Examples include water circulation in stagnant water bodies that increases activities of aerobic organisms, installation of woody materials as substrates/habitats for sedential and benthic organisms, sediment replenishment that increases natural filtration processes, hydraulic flashing of overgrown biofilm, flow-guiding structures that increase spatial connectivity and migration of biota, and devices to mitigate severe thermal conditions and hydrologic disturbances to increase the survival and growth of organisms.

Dr. Sohei Kobayashi
Guest Editor

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