Ecology of extreme events
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- Closed
- Submission deadline
From past mass extinctions to current disastrous wildfires, life on Earth, and the ways species interact with each other and their environment, have been shaped by a long history of extreme events.
This Collection welcomes submissions from all areas, as well as interdisciplinary research, focusing on how extreme events influence the ecology of single species and whole ecosystems. We will consider research providing insights into past events and outcomes, as well as that which bears on present conservation efforts and future projections.
Editors
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Nicoletta Cannone
University of Insubria, Italy
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Atsushi Ishida
Kyoto University, Japan
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Jessica H. Whiteside
University of Southampton, UK
Nicoletta Cannone is an Associate Professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Insubria, Italy. Her research activities focus on the impacts of ongoing and past climatic and environmental change on plant species and vegetation communities, with special reference to ecosystems located at high elevation and high latitudes in Antarctica and the high Arctic. Prof Cannone has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2018.
Atsushi Ishida is a Professor of Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan. He obtained his PhD degree in the Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1993. His research areas cover plant ecophysiology and tree physiology. He has recently focused on tree resilience and vulnerability, relating to climate extremes under ongoing global climate change. Prof Ishida has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2017.
Jessica H. Whiteside is an Associate Professor in Geochemistry at University of Southampton. She is a broadly trained Earth scientist (PhD, Columbia University) who uses molecular biosignatures entombed in sedimentary archives to gain critical insights into how life has responded to and driven changes in our planet’s dynamic past and how it will do so in our warming future. She’s particularly interested in mechanisms of (mass) extinctions, the structuring of ecological systems, key evolutionary innovations, transitions in microbial communities related to changing ocean temperature and redox conditions, the effects of orbital pacing and carbon-cycle feedbacks on palaeoclimates, and the role of ancient lacustrine and terrestrial depositional systems in carbon burial. Her work also includes forays into terrestrial analogues for potential life-favouring environments on ancient Mars. Prof Whiteside been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2016.
