Taxonomy and Ecology of Marine Microorganisms

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the taxonomy and ecology of marine micro-organisms. Recent findings indicate that marine environments have rapidly changed due to global warming over the past several decades. This change leads to significant variations in marine microbial ecology. For example, a long-term increase in ocean temperatures due to global warming has facilitated the intensification of harmful algal blooms, which adversely impact public health, aquatic organisms, and aquaculture industries. Thus, extensive studies have been conducted, but there is still a knowledge gap in our understanding of the variation of their ecology in accordance with future marine environmental changes. To fill this gap, studies on the taxonomy and ecology of marine micro-organisms are highly necessary. We invite researchers to submit research articles that enable us to advance our understanding of the taxonomy and ecology of marine micro-organisms. This Special Issue will provide an advanced forum for studies related to marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic micro-organisms.

Dr. Zhun Li
Dr. Bum Soo Park
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Keywords

  • taxonomy of marine micro-organisms
  • systems microbiology
  • microbial diversity
  • ecology of marine micro-organisms
  • harmful algal blooms
  • mechanism of algal blooms
  • algal microbiome
  • interaction between phytoplankton and bacteria
  • algal cultivation and production

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Environmental Impact on Harmful Species Pseudo-nitzschia spp. and Phaeocystis globosa Phenology and Niche
by Stéphane Karasiewicz and Alain Lefebvre
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2022, 10(2), 174; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10020174 - 27 Jan 2022
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Global environmental change modifies the phytoplankton community, which leads to variations in their phenology and potentially causes a temporal mismatch between primary producers and consumers. In parallel, phytoplankton community change can favor the appearance of harmful species, which makes the understanding of the [...] Read more.
Global environmental change modifies the phytoplankton community, which leads to variations in their phenology and potentially causes a temporal mismatch between primary producers and consumers. In parallel, phytoplankton community change can favor the appearance of harmful species, which makes the understanding of the mechanisms involved in structuring phytoplankton ecological niches paramount for preventing future risk. In this study, we aimed to assess for the first time the relationship between environmental conditions, phenology and niche ecology of harmful species Phaeocystis globosa and the complex Pseudo-nitzschia along the French coast of the eastern English Channel. A new method of bloom detection within a time-series was developed, which allowed the characterization of 363 blooms by 22 phenological variables over 11 stations from 1998 to 2019. The pairwise quantification of asymmetric dependencies between the phenological variables revealed the implication of different mechanisms, common and distinct between the taxa studied. A PERMANOVA helped to reveal the importance of seasonal change in the environmental and community variables. The Outlying Mean and the Within Outlying Mean indexes allowed us to position the harmful taxa niche among the rest of community and quantify how their respective phenology impacted the dynamic of their subniches. We also discussed the possible hypothesis involved and the perspective of predictive models. Full article
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