Evaluation and Monitoring of Ecological and Hydrological Status of Rivers and Lakes
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 69
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecology; aquatic biodiversity macroinverebrates; freshwater ecosystems; floodplain lakes; coastal lakes; water quality
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: coastal lakes; ecology integry; macrozoobenthos; biomoinitoring; antrhopogenic water pollution
Interests: ecohydrology; coastal lakes; ecological integry; restoration; biomonitoring; environmental stressors; ecosystem health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, various techniques and models for assessing the function of aquatic ecosystems have emerged to address the limitations of their natural potential. The intensification of natural factors and anthropogenic pressures has disrupted the established impact streams of matter circulation and energy flow in the ecosystem, leading to habitat degradation. Assessing the resilience of aquatic ecosystems to the destructive effects of physical, chemical, and biological stressors is crucial for effective ecological management, protection of ecological health, and implementation of a culture of sustainable development. However, the type and level of impact of stressors from an evolutionary-system view requires a constant search for new methods of assessment or thr improvement of existing methods. Therefore, simulation of changes based on the principles of artificial intelligence and analysis of factors affecting the functioning of river and lake ecosystems are reliable methods for implementing a culture of sustainability.
Considering the established scientific challenges, we would like to invite scientists involved in hydrological–ecological monitoring research to contribute to this Special Issue, which will focus on the analysis, evaluation, and/or prediction of changes in the functioning of lakes and rivers caused by physical, chemical and biological stressors treated as causal factors, as well as temporal and spatial changes in the level of ecosystem health. As such, manuscripts in the form of case studies on how to ecohydrologically monitor the health of aquatic ecosystems, analyze and assess habitat quality, bioassess the effects of restoration and rehabilitation projects, as well as studies assessing trends in volatile and lentic environmental change, and examining the temporal and spatial variability of ecosystem service functions at different scales and using different indicators will be welcomed.
Prof. Dr. Krystian Obolewski
Dr. Natalia Mrozińska
Dr. Monika Szymańska-Walkiewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- monitoring integrity
- ecohealth
- restoration effect monitoring
- natural potential
- modelling approach
- anthropogenic impact
- ecosystem services
