About this Research Topic
Wetland, known as one of the three major ecosystems, is formed by the interaction of water and land on the earth with high ecological diversity and biological productivity. It has giant environmental functions and ecological benefits in many aspects, such as adjusting climate, conserving water, defending flood and drought, maintaining biodiversity, sequestrating carbon and mitigating global change. However, the area of global wetlands is declining fast, with 35% losses of natural wetlands since 1970 according to Global Wetland Outlook. Wetland ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to global change including warming, land use change, sea-level rise and changing hydrology, with montane wetlands especially at risk. The investigation into responses of vegetation, ecosystem processing and carbon budget in wetland to global change increasingly becomes priority for researchers to manage and restore wetlands and to protect ecosystem services of wetlands.
The goal of this Research Topic is to gain novel insights into the responses of wetland (marsh, peatland, mangrove, estuary, etc.) to global change (temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, drought, ecological restoration, pollution, and other anthropogenic factors, etc.) and its underlying mechanisms.
We welcome different types of manuscripts including original research papers, reviews, and methods, including but not limited to:
• Patterns and drivers of wetland vegetation (including community structure, functional traits, multifunctionality, biodiversity, phenology, etc.) under the changing environment based on in situ observation and remote sensing.
• Responses and feedback of wetland ecosystem processing and functions to global change (temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, drought, ecological restoration, anthropogenic factors, etc.) using field experiments and large-scale transects.
• Elucidating underlying mechanism (including but not limited to microbial mechanism) of carbon storage, carbon flux and carbon budget of wetland ecosystem in response to global change by field investigation, eddy covariance, models, etc.
The goal of this Research Topic is to gain novel insights into the responses of wetland (marsh, peatland, mangrove, estuary, etc.) to global change (temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, drought, ecological restoration, pollution, and other anthropogenic factors, etc.) and its underlying mechanisms.
We welcome different types of manuscripts including original research papers, reviews, and methods, including but not limited to:
• Patterns and drivers of wetland vegetation (including community structure, functional traits, multifunctionality, biodiversity, phenology, etc.) under the changing environment based on in situ observation and remote sensing.
• Responses and feedback of wetland ecosystem processing and functions to global change (temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, drought, ecological restoration, anthropogenic factors, etc.) using field experiments and large-scale transects.
• Elucidating underlying mechanism (including but not limited to microbial mechanism) of carbon storage, carbon flux and carbon budget of wetland ecosystem in response to global change by field investigation, eddy covariance, models, etc.
Keywords: wetland vegetation, ecosystem processing, carbon flux, marsh, peatland, mangrove, estuary
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