Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly degraded on a global scale. The biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning decrease are becoming more and more prominent all over the world. Water pollution, habitat degradation, hydrological regime variation, over-exploitation, and species invasions have combined effects on biodiversity.
Many measures have been performed to restore freshwater ecosystems, such as ecological flow releases, dam removal, and water treatment. In this context, how to restore the freshwater ecosystem (structure, function) and how to indicate the restoration effect are the key problems for ecosystem restoration and conservation. Therefore, we would like to discuss some problems around this theme in this Research Topic.
Our goal is to address recent advances in the biodiversity-ecological functioning relationship, to illuminate the biodiversity maintaining mechanisms, and to proclaim the main environmental factors (flow discharge, river connectivity, etc.) that influence the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of freshwater ecosystems at different spatial scales. Through these scientific advances, we aim to improve our understanding of theories related to ecosystem function and provide support for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration in freshwater ecosystems globally.
We welcome submissions of original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, methods, and perspective papers on, but not limited to, the following subtopics:
• Mechanisms that sustain biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems
• Biodiversity-ecological functioning stability relationship at different spatial scales
• The effect of the dam’s construction on river ecosystem functioning
• The effect of river connectivity and hydrology regime variation to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
• Biological indicators to freshwater ecosystems restoration
• Biodiversity conservation at watershed scale
• Urban rivers assessment and restoration
Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly degraded on a global scale. The biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning decrease are becoming more and more prominent all over the world. Water pollution, habitat degradation, hydrological regime variation, over-exploitation, and species invasions have combined effects on biodiversity.
Many measures have been performed to restore freshwater ecosystems, such as ecological flow releases, dam removal, and water treatment. In this context, how to restore the freshwater ecosystem (structure, function) and how to indicate the restoration effect are the key problems for ecosystem restoration and conservation. Therefore, we would like to discuss some problems around this theme in this Research Topic.
Our goal is to address recent advances in the biodiversity-ecological functioning relationship, to illuminate the biodiversity maintaining mechanisms, and to proclaim the main environmental factors (flow discharge, river connectivity, etc.) that influence the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of freshwater ecosystems at different spatial scales. Through these scientific advances, we aim to improve our understanding of theories related to ecosystem function and provide support for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration in freshwater ecosystems globally.
We welcome submissions of original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, methods, and perspective papers on, but not limited to, the following subtopics:
• Mechanisms that sustain biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems
• Biodiversity-ecological functioning stability relationship at different spatial scales
• The effect of the dam’s construction on river ecosystem functioning
• The effect of river connectivity and hydrology regime variation to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
• Biological indicators to freshwater ecosystems restoration
• Biodiversity conservation at watershed scale
• Urban rivers assessment and restoration
