Aquatic Ecosystems and Water Resources Management: An Entomological Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

An aquatic ecosystem is a water environment in which a community of organisms lives and interacts. These aquatic ecosystems can be defined as a drop of water on a leaf, a small puddle in a forest, a shallow aquifer, or the entire drainage basin of the Mississippi River. The specific setting and type of water (e.g., a freshwater lake, a saltwater marsh, a pond, or streams) determine which community of organisms (e.g., animals and plants) live there. Linking aquatic ecosystems with water resource management will include activities of planning, developing, distributing, and managing the finite water resources available in the ecosystem. Further viewing the linkage from an entomological perspective can bring out some emergent properties important for the sustainable development of our planet.

Although plants and animals need water, this special issue is on insects which form an important group within the animal kingdom. This issue plans to bring out several aspects of insects - aquatic ecosystems - water resource management interactions. They include but not limited to insects that spend their part of the life stage in aquatic habitat, the impact of water resource management on insects, insects as indicators of water integrity, direct and indirect relationships between water, insects, plants, and biodiversity etc.

This Special Issue will uniquely focus on the entomological interactions within this broad perspective of aquatic ecosystems and water resource management. The studies will include multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to understanding and representing these interactions.

Prof. Dr. Aavudai Anandhi
Prof. Dr. Debabrata Sahoo
Prof. Dr. Gadi V.P. Reddy
Prof. Dr. Devi Thangam
Guest Editors

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• biological and agricultural systems
• hydrological and ecological systems
• food–water–energy nexus
• natural resource conservation
• irrigation engineering
• environmental change (climate, land, and water-use changes)