Global reactive nitrogen has increased dramatically in coastal marine ecosystems over the past decades and caused numerous eco-environmental problems. Nowadays, nitrogen biogeochemical cycling in coastal marine has become a hot topic, which has been widely concerned by several international projects, such as International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBER) and Future Earth. Estuarine and coastal ecosystem plays a critical role in nitrogen cycle and is also a potential source of nitrous oxide. It is necessary to deepen the knowledge of nitrogen fluxes, nitrogen pollution, nitrogen forms, nitrogen cycle, and nitrous oxide in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, thus providing a basis for controlling nitrogen balance and global warming.
This Research Topic focuses on nitrogen cycling processes in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, including spatiotemporal variations, fluxes, controlling factors, and environmental implications. In estuarine and coastal ecosystems, nitrogen cycling is complex, dynamic in space and time, and dependent on multiple interrelated ecosystem components. Although more and more studies have been carried out on nitrogen forms, pollution, fluxes, sources, fates, transformation processes, and associated microorganisms in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, researches are still much less compared to terrestrial ecosystems. More studies on the estuarine and coastal nitrogen cycle are still needed, which are necessary components in understanding both global marine productivity and climate change.
We invite researchers to submit articles that advance understandings of nitrogen forms, pollution, fluxes, sources, fates, transformation processes, and associated microorganisms in estuarine and coastal ecosystems. This Research Topic calls for original and novel papers related to nitrogen elements in any of the following topics, but are not limited to:
• Reviews that systematically summarize the current state of nitrogen fluxes, nitrogen pollution, nitrogen forms, nitrogen cycle, and nitrous oxide in estuarine and coastal ecosystems.
• Studies on nitrogen transformations in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, including spatiotemporal variations, controlling factors, and environmental implications
• Reports on novel methods for the determination of nitrogen content, composition, and transformation rates.
• Articles about using high-throughput sequencing and metabolomics to investigate the microbiological factors
Global reactive nitrogen has increased dramatically in coastal marine ecosystems over the past decades and caused numerous eco-environmental problems. Nowadays, nitrogen biogeochemical cycling in coastal marine has become a hot topic, which has been widely concerned by several international projects, such as International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBER) and Future Earth. Estuarine and coastal ecosystem plays a critical role in nitrogen cycle and is also a potential source of nitrous oxide. It is necessary to deepen the knowledge of nitrogen fluxes, nitrogen pollution, nitrogen forms, nitrogen cycle, and nitrous oxide in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, thus providing a basis for controlling nitrogen balance and global warming.
This Research Topic focuses on nitrogen cycling processes in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, including spatiotemporal variations, fluxes, controlling factors, and environmental implications. In estuarine and coastal ecosystems, nitrogen cycling is complex, dynamic in space and time, and dependent on multiple interrelated ecosystem components. Although more and more studies have been carried out on nitrogen forms, pollution, fluxes, sources, fates, transformation processes, and associated microorganisms in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, researches are still much less compared to terrestrial ecosystems. More studies on the estuarine and coastal nitrogen cycle are still needed, which are necessary components in understanding both global marine productivity and climate change.
We invite researchers to submit articles that advance understandings of nitrogen forms, pollution, fluxes, sources, fates, transformation processes, and associated microorganisms in estuarine and coastal ecosystems. This Research Topic calls for original and novel papers related to nitrogen elements in any of the following topics, but are not limited to:
• Reviews that systematically summarize the current state of nitrogen fluxes, nitrogen pollution, nitrogen forms, nitrogen cycle, and nitrous oxide in estuarine and coastal ecosystems.
• Studies on nitrogen transformations in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, including spatiotemporal variations, controlling factors, and environmental implications
• Reports on novel methods for the determination of nitrogen content, composition, and transformation rates.
• Articles about using high-throughput sequencing and metabolomics to investigate the microbiological factors