Dynamic of Natural Ecosystems under Anthropogenic Disturbances
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 29784
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban transformation
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2. University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
Interests: urban computation and analytics; low-carbon city; spatial computation and urban growth modelling
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2. Harvard China Project, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Interests: urban ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human activities have significantly disturbed the stability of terrestrial ecosystems. Of these, urban ecosystems in coastal wetlands are the most sensitive to human disturbances. Understanding the dynamics and sensitivity of coastal wetlands and urban green spaces, predicting their future development, finding solutions to environmental and land-use problems, and developing strategies for adaptation to the changing climate and human activities are critically important. For this Special Issue, we will describe how urban ecosystems of coastal wetlands and urban green spaces are dealing with climate change, human activities, and species invasion by using theoretical analysis, new research methods, observational data, and predictive modeling. We welcome papers based on fieldwork for case studies or comparative work, at different levels (single-point experiment, spatial analysis, and meta-analysis) and across different contexts.
Papers may address such topics as:
- urban growth simulation and coastal ecosystems;
- effects of post-pollution ecological remediation techniques on microbial communities of saltmarsh soils;
- the response of biological invasions to climate change;
- the intensity and mechanisms of fragmentation in alpine meadow ecosystems; and
- impacts of heavy metal pollution and land-use change on terrestrial ecosystems’ stability and resilience.
Prof. Dr. Michael Keith
Dr. ChengHe Guan
Dr. Jialin Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coastal urban ecosystem
- urban growth and urban green
- land-use change
- climate change impacts
- environmental pollution