Plankton Community in Marine Ecosystem
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 2173
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mesozooplankton ecology in marine environments; taxonomy of mesozooplankton; the trophic role of zooplankton in marine food webs; isotopes and biochemical indices on zooplankton
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the special issue “Plankton Community in Marine Ecosystem” has been launched. We would like to invite you to contribute a Review or Research Article to this special issue.
Marine phytoplankton and zooplankton are the foundation of the marine food chain and food web. As important primary producers in marine ecosystems, they input energy to organisms at higher trophic levels, driving subsequent ecological processes. Changes in their diversity, biomass, primary productivity and species composition affect energy transfer in the food chain and determine Marine ecosystem services.
This special issue focuses on plankton communities in marine ecosystems to better understand and predict their changes and impacts, especially in the context of climate change.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- food web structure of plankton in the pelagic/coastal ecosystem;
- current status of plankton communities in Marine Ecosystems (including information on composition, structure and dynamics);
- new modern? tools to study plankton communities, such as biomarkers;
- long-term observations and modeling analysis of plankton communities;
- biotic and abiotic variables that control/affect plankton growth;
- ecosystem health and plankton: interdependencies;
- spatial and temporal variations of plankton communities, and their resonance to climate change
Dr. Maria Protopapa
Dr. Anastasia Tsiola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- zooplankton
- phytoplankton
- bacterioplantkon
- virioplankton
- microzooplankton
- pelagic food web
- biomarkers
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