About this Research Topic
Global Change Ecology promotes the understanding of how globally important changes in the environment, disrupt all aspects of ecological systems. Especially, the environmental changes that are driven by human influences and natural processes (e.g., climate change, urbanization, biological invasion, and pollution), resulting in biodiversity loss and eco-evolutionary deleterious impacts at the scales of populations, communities, or ecosystems. Alternatively, the recognition of ecological responses can enhance their resilience and resistance to environmental disturbances in different ecological systems. For example, the implications of these environmental threats on biodiversity and ecosystems can boost the interventions of strategies and the development of new techniques. The management solutions developed aim to increase environmental sustainability and mitigate the ecological impacts on biota in the Anthropocene.
By collecting multi-disciplinary efforts in the form of primary research articles or perspective reviews, we can comprehensively understand how global change influences the biota and, consequently, construct valuable adaptation strategies. This Research Topic will examine the effects of a variety of environmental stresses on different organisms (e.g., plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, microorganisms) in a range of biomes (e.g., terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems). In addition, our collection of articles will assemble studies on the ecological and evolutionary responses and influences of organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems under experimental, modeled, or observed environmental change. These efforts can be devoted to the environmental events and the associated impacts at global and regional scales on a long-term or short-term bases.
The scope of our Research Topic includes, but is not limited to, the following interests:
• Ecological responses to climate change and extreme weather
• Land use change and ecological connectivity
• Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity
• Urbanization and ecological influences
• Ecological impacts of contaminants and pollutants
• Ecological changes to biological invasions
• Climate-change mitigations and the shifting distribution of species
• Mechanisms of eco-evolutionary resilience and resistance
• Environmental protection and restoration techniques and policies
• Research and datasets for future assessments and modeling
• Ecological monitoring through the linkages and networks on long-term or large-scale bases.
By collecting multi-disciplinary efforts in the form of primary research articles or perspective reviews, we can comprehensively understand how global change influences the biota and, consequently, construct valuable adaptation strategies. This Research Topic will examine the effects of a variety of environmental stresses on different organisms (e.g., plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, microorganisms) in a range of biomes (e.g., terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems). In addition, our collection of articles will assemble studies on the ecological and evolutionary responses and influences of organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems under experimental, modeled, or observed environmental change. These efforts can be devoted to the environmental events and the associated impacts at global and regional scales on a long-term or short-term bases.
The scope of our Research Topic includes, but is not limited to, the following interests:
• Ecological responses to climate change and extreme weather
• Land use change and ecological connectivity
• Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity
• Urbanization and ecological influences
• Ecological impacts of contaminants and pollutants
• Ecological changes to biological invasions
• Climate-change mitigations and the shifting distribution of species
• Mechanisms of eco-evolutionary resilience and resistance
• Environmental protection and restoration techniques and policies
• Research and datasets for future assessments and modeling
• Ecological monitoring through the linkages and networks on long-term or large-scale bases.
Keywords: Anthropocene, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Environmental changes, Experimental manipulation, Numerical modeling, Monitoring data, Urbanization
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