Dear Colleagues,

We are putting together a Special Issue of Climate focused on resilience and adaptation to climate change of populations and communities, as well as its impact on aquatic ecosystem functioning. Climate change has resulted in warming, acidification, and deoxygenation in aquatic ecosystems. In addition, alterations in circulation, vertical mixing, inflows, nutrient loading, sea-level rise, and intensification of storms have resulted from changes in climate. These changed conditions are exacerbated by increased dam construction, water reclamation projects, and inter-basin water transfers. Biodiversity loss in aquatic ecosystems has resulted from climate change, reducing functional redundancy and threatening ecosystem functioning. In some areas, habitat compression and taxon-specific range movement have resulted in new species distributions, and have altered phenology and community dynamics. Shifts in plankton composition and productivity have occurred that, in some cases, have resulted in harmful algal blooms, as well as changes to trophic transfer efficiency and fishery yields. At the organismal level, climate change affects the physiology, structure, and gene expression of organisms, potentially driving rapid evolution. By creating this Special Issue of Climate, we aim to provide a resource for scientists and resource managers alike that captures the current state of knowledge.

Topics that the Special Issue will address include, but are not limited to, resilience and adaptation to climate change at biological organization levels of the following:

• Genetics and genomics
• Organelles, cells, tissues, and organisms
• Populations and metapopulations
• Communities and metacommunities
• Ecosystems and biospheres

While the Special Issue is limited to aquatic systems, both inland and marine systems will be included, in both pelagic and benthic habitats, as well as organisms ranging in size—from viruses to whales.

Dr. Daniel Roelke
Dr. Sierra E. Cagle
Dr. Simon Mitrovic
Dr. Sofie Spatharis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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. Climate is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 1800 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.

• resilience
• adaptation
• aquatic ecosystems
• climate change
• biology
• ecology
• population
• community