Like land photosynthetic organisms, aquatic photosynthetic organisms constitute the base of most food chains and therefore provide essential ecosystem services: the production of oxygen, fixation of carbon dioxide, (re)cycling of nutrients, among many others. Unfortunately, these ecosystems are not immune to the upheavals induced by human activities - eutrophication, acidification, and rising temperatures which jeopardize the performance of these services though crucial. Many data in the literature identify and describe in detail these modifications. However, disentangling involved in the degree of sensitivity to variations in environmental factors linked to climate change remains a difficult task.
Aquatic organisms (plants, microalgae, cyanobacteria) live in particularly difficult conditions, including a scarcity of nutrients like water, and temperature variations. To resist these changes, these organisms have evolved different adaptive mechanisms. The acceleration of climate change is disrupting the living conditions of these organisms in an exacerbated way, causing major changes in their distribution area and even their disappearance. We can neither remain insensitive nor spectators to the ongoing climate disaster, and it is urgent to better understand the factors threatening, and limiting the biological adaptation of aquatic photosynthetic organisms.
This Research Topic will serve as a central point for research, highlighting the effects of global change on microalgae and aquatic plants. We welcome all submission types covering, but not limited to, the following subtopics:
• Responses of aquatic photosynthetic organisms to climate change, including adaptative mechanisms and regulatory processes;
• The effects of global change on symbioses with photosynthetic aquatic organisms;
• Applications of adaptative mechanisms for the production of biochemicals;
• Changes in local biodiversity, including taxon migrations;
• Photosynthesis and carbon fixation.
Like land photosynthetic organisms, aquatic photosynthetic organisms constitute the base of most food chains and therefore provide essential ecosystem services: the production of oxygen, fixation of carbon dioxide, (re)cycling of nutrients, among many others. Unfortunately, these ecosystems are not immune to the upheavals induced by human activities - eutrophication, acidification, and rising temperatures which jeopardize the performance of these services though crucial. Many data in the literature identify and describe in detail these modifications. However, disentangling involved in the degree of sensitivity to variations in environmental factors linked to climate change remains a difficult task.
Aquatic organisms (plants, microalgae, cyanobacteria) live in particularly difficult conditions, including a scarcity of nutrients like water, and temperature variations. To resist these changes, these organisms have evolved different adaptive mechanisms. The acceleration of climate change is disrupting the living conditions of these organisms in an exacerbated way, causing major changes in their distribution area and even their disappearance. We can neither remain insensitive nor spectators to the ongoing climate disaster, and it is urgent to better understand the factors threatening, and limiting the biological adaptation of aquatic photosynthetic organisms.
This Research Topic will serve as a central point for research, highlighting the effects of global change on microalgae and aquatic plants. We welcome all submission types covering, but not limited to, the following subtopics:
• Responses of aquatic photosynthetic organisms to climate change, including adaptative mechanisms and regulatory processes;
• The effects of global change on symbioses with photosynthetic aquatic organisms;
• Applications of adaptative mechanisms for the production of biochemicals;
• Changes in local biodiversity, including taxon migrations;
• Photosynthesis and carbon fixation.