About this Research Topic
Coastal wetlands lie in the transition zone between lands and seas, defending us from storms and floodings and providing important and valuable ecosystem services such as carbon stock and biodiversity maintenance. However, coastal wetlands are vulnerable and are one of the most physically disturbed ecosystems on earth, because they are always in hydrodynamic conditions under the interactions among tides, waves, runoffs, and so on. Furthermore, the combined impacts of climate change and human activities have caused more uncertainties and complexities on the environmental factors, which imposed unparalleled impacts on the diversity, distribution, and ecological performance of coastal wetland ecosystem globally.
Due to climate change and anthropogenic impact, coastal wetland is facing multiple challenges all over the world, including but not limited to degradation and diminishing of habitat/ecosystem services and declining biodiversity. Consequently, elucidating the various processes, mechanisms, and solutions for coastal wetland to adapt to climate change will help us actively respond to the negative effects of climate change.
The focus of this Research Topic is on studies using literature, remote sensing, experimental or modeling methods to reveal important processes and mechanisms in coastal wetland to adapt to climate change and anthropogenic influences. It calls for original and novel papers in any of the following research topics:
• The impacts of climate change and human activity on the pattern, distribution, and potential of coastal habitat
• Effects of multiple stressors or disturbances on ecological process (e.g. life cycle process, biogeomorphic process, food web) in coastal wetland
• Adaptive mechanisms of species on individual, population, and community levels to changeable environment in coastal wetland
• The role and effect of ecological restoration or management strategies on coastal wetland
• New findings, mechanisms or implications of natural based solutions in coastal wetland
Keywords: coastal wetlands, climate change, ecological process, adaptive solutions, conservation
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