The Phytoplankton-Zooplankton Link under Anthropogenic Pressures
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 (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 9766
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plankton; evolutionary ecology; life history theory; food webs; socio-ecological systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Human activities, such as fisheries, aquaculture, industrial, and agricultural pollution, and artificial structures, greatly impact plankton communities, by modifying the networks of interaction between their main components, i.e., phytoplankton and zooplankton. The perturbation of phytoplankton–zooplankton coupling may modify the structure of aquatic food webs, and, as a consequence, the biological carbon fluxes of the plankton itself, all over the water column, from the nekton to the benthos. Investigating how and to what extent human pressures cause alterations at the phytoplankton–zooplankton interface is crucial to preserving aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services.
In this context, we invite you to submit contributions to our Special Issue, entitled “The Phytoplankton–Zooplankton Link under Anthropogenic Pressures”.
This topical collection is open to high-quality contributions relating human activities and plankton biodiversity, structure, and function, response to direct or indirect anthropogenic stressors, food web efficiency and variation in time and space, resistance and resilience of plankton communities, adaptation, and acclimation to pollutants and changing thermal and hydrogeologic regimes. Contributions pertaining to either marine or freshwater systems are welcome.
We encourage you to submit works providing a context for the interactive and cumulative effects of multiple stressors on the phytoplankton–zooplankton interactions, but case studies will also be taken into consideration.
Authors may contact the Guest Editors before submitting their manuscripts to see if the work is suitable for this Special Issue.
Dr. Domenico D'Alelio
Dr. Luigi Caputi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plankton
- biological interactions
- food webs
- anthropogenic impact
- aquatic biodiversity
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