Molecular Ecology of Aero-Terrestrial Microalgae and Cyanobacteria
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 91
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental microbiology; polar ecology; microbial cell biology; cyanobacteria; micro algae
Interests: microalgae; biocrusts; ecology; biodiversity; ecophysiology
Interests: microbial ecology; environmental microbiology; microbial diversity; soil; ecology; microbiology; molecular biology; community structure; biodiversity; climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular omics methods are dramatically transforming the field of ecology, allowing research questions and hypotheses to be tested in situ that would have been impossible to answer just a few years ago. An often-overlooked component of terrestrial habitats are microalgae and cyanobacteria, which are found almost everywhere on Earth, from the cold deserts of the polar regions to tropical rainforests and from endolithic species to epiphytic forms growing on trees and free-living and symbiotic forms, and are often important primary producers in their respective ecosystems. Even today, we know little about the diversity (intra- and interspecific) of these organisms and how they survive the occasional extreme conditions of their specific habitat. This Special Issue aims to bring together scientists using modern omics approaches to understand the ecology/biology of these amazing organisms.
Dr. Burkhard Becker
Prof. Dr. Karin Glaser
Dr. Ekaterina Pushkareva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microalgae
- cyanobacteria
- molecular omics
