Ecosystem Health: Biocomplexity, Modeling, and Solutions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4089
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biocomplexity; collective dynamics; ecology and evolution of biological and socio-technological systems; systemic risk analysis; decision science; complex networks; network science; information theory; stochastic processes; fractals; uncertainty; ecohydrology; hydrodynamics; sustainability; ecosystem health; ecodesign; ecosystem modeling; data science; biomimicry; bio-inspired design; macroecology; physiophysics; ecosystem pathology; forecasting; interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics; design by analogy; food systems; physio-linguistics; microbiome; epigenetics; environment; aquatic and marine ecosystems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ecosystem health is a primary grand challenge for the sustainability of our planet. Degradation of the environment is alarming in many areas around the world considering both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems experiencing extreme phenomena. In this Special Issue, we welcome papers that highlight evidence and solutions of ecosystem health broadly defined (for instance, considering both ecological indicators of biodiversity and species population status, human indicators of effects and hazards, or their nexus with relevance to environmental sciences, biology, public health, and medicine) based on modeling the biocomplexity of ecosystems at any spatiotemporal and biological scales—from the gene to the population/continental scale—or across scales. This view of ecosystem health is bringing population health into sustainability quantitatively. Papers focused on (1) collective “omics” phenomena such as the microbiome, epigenetics, and the envirome linking humans and the environment, (2) pattern/process trajectories and solutions considering climate change and ecosystem management/design, and (3) technology or other sectors to address ecosystem sustainability issues are welcome. Papers concentrated on novel multiscale methods for predicting ecosystem biocomplexity, such as complex networks and information theory, are also extremely encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Matteo Convertino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biocomplexity
- ecosystems
- modeling
- multiscale
- population health
- systemic risk
- networks
- decisions
- technology
- sustainability
