Microbial Ecology of Lakes, Estuaries and Ocean Coasts

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue entitled Microbial Ecology of Lakes, Estuaries and Ocean Coasts will concern research topics within Aquatic and/or Marine Microbiology and its scope will encompass the structure and function of microbial populations in natural water environments. Such topics will include (1) microbial foodwebs in different ecosystems; (2) recycling of particulate and dissolved organic matter and the importance of maintaining ecological water quality; (3) the role of microbial foodwebs as carbon sinks and/or links; (4) the role of viruses in regulating microorganism biomass diversity, and biogeochemical fluxes; (5) the impact of global change in microbial dynamics, and (6) community genomics in natural environments.

Articles will include research papers, brief notes, and also review papers. Descriptions of environmental conditions and how results can be interpreted in view of environmental variables are encouraged in all studies.

Dr. Helena M. Galvão
Prof. Dr. Jorma Kuparinen
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Water is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• microbial ecology
• microbial foodwebs
• trophic dynamics
• carbon recycling
• ecological water quality
• community genomics