Effects of Environmental Change on Meiofauna
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 7438
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine ecosystems; meiofauna; nematodes; disturbance; biodiversity; community ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Meiofauna, a group of small-sized organisms (<1 mm) are the most abundant and phyletically diverse metazoans on Earth. They have successfully adapted to nearly every ecosystem: from marine and freshwater sediments to terrestrial soils, from the polar regions to the tropics, and from the mountains to the ocean depths. They play an important role as trophic intermediaries between micro- and macroscopic organisms in food webs and mediate a range of globally important ecosystem processes. Because meiofauna have a high site fidelity and are short-lived, they integrate short-term fluctuations of, and longer-term trends in, local environmental conditions. The small size of meiofauna coupled with their often-high abundance and diversity, and continuous reproduction make them amenable to in situ and experimental studies of changes within ecosystems. This Special Issue highlights new research on all aspects of the response of meiofauna to natural environmental dynamics and man-made perturbations. It specifically addresses the effects of environmental changes on (i) meiofauna populations, diversity, and distributions at multiple spatial and temporal scales, (ii) inter- and intraspecific interactions of meiofauna, and (iii) meiofauna-mediated ecosystem processes.
Dr. Michaela Schratzberger
Guest Editor
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