Nome da Revista: Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology
Classificação: B2
Dossiê Temático: "Ecosystem health and ecohydrology of shallow lakes in China"
Prazo: 22/05/2022
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Ecosystem health and ecohydrology of shallow lakes in China
Shallow lakes are the most abundant wetland types in the global landscape which provide a great deal of ecological services, such as habitat, runoff regulating, water purification, carbon sequestration, recreation, etc. However, most shallow lakes tend to be located in the densely-populated area and are therefore more sensitive to human activities in the catchments. In the past decade years, shallow lakes worldwide suffered from serious degradation and quick loss due to natural and anthropogenic impacts, especially in those highly developing countries like China. With the rapid economic development, more and more pollutants and nutrients were discharged into shallow lakes. Their hydrological condition and landscape were also largely changed due to the depleted water resource exploitation and land utilization. Environmental and ecological problems frequently occurred which seriously endangered their ecosystem health. These problems have greatly destroyed the ecological service functions of shallow lakes which will threaten the survival and development of mankind in the future. Thus, it has become an urgent task to make clear the pollution status and evolutionary trend of shallow lakes and put forward some countermeasures for the government management.
Baiyangdian lake is the largest typical shallow lake in northern China which plays an essential role in maintaining the ecological balance in local area. Baiyangdian lake is located in Xiong’an New Area, China, one newly-developing model city aiming at initiating a new mode for urban construction which will harmonize the development of economy, society and ecology. For achieving the ecological goal of Xiong’an, a lot of measures have been taken to restore the ecosystem of Baiyangdian lake which had been seriously destroyed by pollution and reclamation in the past. The discharge of pollutants has been strictly prohibited. Large-scale ecological water replenishment has been carried out resulting in an obvious water level rising. The human activities in the lake are also sternly limited. Hence, it is necessary to evaluate the ecological and environmental status of Baiyangdian lake after these restoration measures had been taken a few years since 2017.
The special issue will focus on the restoring process of Baiyangdian lake (a shallow lake) by presenting the innovative and scientific diagnosis of the environmental and ecological status, landscape and hydrology. Many studies have demonstrated that energy flow, matter circulation, ecosystem structure and ecological function of shallow lakes will be greatly affected by man-made regulation. We need to closely monitor the change of environmental and ecological status in the process of restoration of shallow lakes. Hence, this special issue will address the contamination status, ecosystem health, ecohydrological & hydro-biological or microbiological responses and consequences of shallow lakes to the various restoring measures, such as water level rising, external pollution elimination, eutrophication controlling, dredging, relocation of residents and production activities limitation in and around the lake area.
Regarding the scope of this special issue, the eight specific scopes are presented as listed following, but not limited on them. This special issue entitled “Ecosystem Health and Ecohydrology of Shallow Lakes in China” published in ECOHYDROLOGY & HYDROBIOLOGY contains recent findings and progresses in the shallow lakes, e.g. Baiyangdian lake. A panoramic research scopes will be covered in this special issue by focusing a single study site, which presents typical and comprehensive problems of all other shallow lakes in China.
The specific scopes will be covered by this special issue are shown as following:
Spatial and temporal changes in habitat quality and ecological risks of pollutants of shallow lakes at multiple scales
Effects of human activities and global climate change on biogeochemical processes and eco-hydrological processes
Ecological restoration techniques and green restoration and water purification materials for degraded lakes
Effects of water table fluctuations on ecological and biogeochemcial processes of shallow lakes
Movement and transformation of pollutants and their effects on biological or microbiological processes in shallow lakes
Responses of wetland biodiversity and functions to shallow lakes due to human disturbance & global climate change
Dynamics of ecosystem servieces and ecosystem health assessment in shallow lakes
Submission deadline: 22 May 2022
Guest Editors:
Prof. Junhong Bai
State Key State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. Email: junhongbai@163.com
Prof. Demin Zhou
College of Resources, Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China. Email: zhoudemin@cnu.edu.cn
Prof. Zhaoqing Luan
College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University No.159, Longpan Road, Nanjing 210037, Jiangsu, China. Email: luanzhaoqing@njfu.edu.cn
Dr. Laibin Huang
Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Email: lbhuang@ucdavis.edu
Submission format and Guideline:
All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. Accepted papers are published in the following journal sections: original research articles (36 000 characters), review articles (63 000 characters) and short communications (18 000 characters). For further information about the general format of the references, etc., please refer to the on-line guide for authors that can be found at:
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ecohydrology-and-hydrobiology/1642-3593/guide-for-authors
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