Biodiversity as Tools to Assess Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 312
Special Issue Editors
Interests: macrobenthos; ecology and evolution; community ecology; marine ecology; ecological statistics
Interests: ecology and conservation; coastal marine ecosystems; marine biodiversity; reproduction and population dynamics of marine benthic species
Interests: oceanography; marine ecology; environmental sciences; invertebrate zoology; benthic ecosystems; marine and estuarine pollution; polychaete ecology and taxonomy; aquatic alien species; health ecosystem assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthy and resilient ecosystems are essential for the preservation of biodiversity and support of human societies. Accordingly, the 2022 United Nations Conference emphasized the incalculable economic and social value of coastal and marine resources and ecosystem services. The increasing influence of human activities on coastal ecosystems, however, poses a serious threat to the maintenance of their biodiversity and provision of essential ecosystem services; thus, there is an urgent need to efficiently assess ecosystem health and mitigate impacts. The diversity of life forms among the many faunal groups in coastal ecosystems provides an array of opportunities to apply biodiversity to the assessment of ecosystem health, in the form of approaches such as indicator taxa, biomonitors, umbrella species, and biotic indices. Although efforts have been made to achieve this, there are still many areas in need of evaluation, such as the delimitation of bioindicators, the performance of current methods in different ecosystems, the consideration of under-evaluated groups, and the development of new approaches.
For this Special Issue, we are seeking submissions that address the use of coastal biodiversity to evaluate ecological integrity and monitor the impacts and recovery of coastal environments. We encourage submissions that apply established methods, especially in areas with pronounced knowledge gaps, as well as those that develop new strategies for assessing and monitoring ecosystem health. We also encourage submissions that explore the potential of different groups and species as biological indicators and/or suggest how biodiversity measurements can inform management initiatives.
Dr. Hélio Hermínio Checon
Dr. Guilherme N. Corte
Prof. Dr. Pablo Muniz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coastal management
- bioindicators
- biomonitors
- biotic indices
- sandy beaches
- mangroves
- estuaries
- rocky shores
- benthos
- plankton
- nekton
