Microbiodiversity Profiling as a First Step towards Better Management of Freshwater Ecosystems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021) | Viewed by 2006
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biodegradation; biodiversity; extreme environments; microbial ecology; microbiome networks; NGS sequencing; sustainability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the efforts of governments and conservation organizations to protect rivers, lakes, wetlands, and subsurface aquifers, many of them are being severely damaged by human activities. Consequently, monitoring, planning, or assessing the performance of remediation measures to guard freshwater ecosystems constitutes an urgent need and a challenge in environmental protection.
Microbial communities are sensitive to all disturbances of their habitat. The recent development of new methods for estimating microbial biodiversity and function enables detecting factors responsible for shaping specific microbial community composition and role in relation to environmental factors, including those of anthropogenic origin.
Therefore, searching for indicators of ecosystem function, and assessing community structure to identify microorganisms uniquely associated with it, may be crucial for understanding unwanted changes and help to solve the problem of reservoir contamination and subsequent restoration.
The special issue “Microbiodiversity profiling as a first step towards better management of freshwater ecosystems” within Sustainability aims to highlight those aspects of the biodiversity of microbial communities in freshwater ecosystems (lakes, rivers, and subsurface environments) that may be used to develop better practices for their conservation and management. All researchers in the field are invited to contribute with their original, unpublished works. Both research and review papers are welcome.
Dr. Agnieszka KalwasińskaGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Biodiversity
- Freshwater Ecosystems
- Microbial Communities
- NGS Sequencing
- Sustainability
