Hydrobiologia - Sustaining Life Below Water

Conserving, managing, and protecting our marine and freshwater resources

Submission status: Open
Open for submission from: 5 September 2022
Submission deadline: 1 October 2023

In support of the Un Sustainable Development Goal SDG14 (this opens in a new tab) we are calling for submissions for this new Collection on Sustaining Life Below Water.

Plastic waste, overfishing, ocean acidification, increasing eutrophication are some of the major threats endangering our oceans, rivers and lakes. With this collection we aim to create a cross-disciplinary home for research articles, perspectives, and emerging topics addressing the conservation and sustainability of the use of our marine and freshwater resources.

By putting scholarship supporting this UN Goal in the spotlight we hope to increase the scientific knowledge and awareness of the targets and indicators set by the UN Goal such as reducing marine pollution, strengthening resilience, restoring coastal ecosystems, minimizing the impacts of ocean acidification, reducing destructive fishing practices, providing access for small-scale fishers to marine resources and markets and more.

We call for submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Biotelemetry and bio-logging
Dam removal policy and development
Economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
Effects of reef degradation on ecosystem goods and services
Environmental DNA and RNA
Environmental flows
Fish migration and passage
Fisheries-induced evolutionFloodplain management
Hydropower mitigation
Links between reef health and human health
Methods and case studies and their scientific assessment, to manage, protect, and restore wetlands, to prevent and significantly reduce wetland pollution, in particular from land-based activities, including sedimentation from poor land-use, plastic and nutrient pollution
Physiology and health of wild fish
Preventing and reducing (plastic) pollution/waste in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
Policy development in river and lake management
Reducing/minimizing ocean acidification
Regulating harvesting, ending of overfishing and destructive fishing practices, and science-based management plans to restore fish stocks
Restoration goals in lake management
River and lake restoration
Strengthening resilience and restoration of coastal ecosystem
Understanding and improving sustainable use of coral reef resources

How to submit?
Please use the ‘Submit manuscript’ link from the journal homepage. During submission you will be asked if you would like your article to be included in a Topical Collection. Select ‘Yes’ and select the name of this collection from the drop down menu: TC: Sustaining Life Below Water.

Submissions to the collection may be original research articles, perspectives or review articles. Please read the submission guidelines for each journal before submitting. Each submission will undergo thorough and rigorous peer review according to each journal’s peer review editorial policy. Accepted articles will be published in their respective journal and will benefit from being cross-linked as well on the collection page.

The following participating journals are accepting submissions for this collection:

Aquatic Ecology (this opens in a new tab)

Aquaculture International (this opens in a new tab)

Aquatic Sciences (this opens in a new tab)

Coral Reefs (this opens in a new tab)Environmental (this opens in a new tab)

Biology of Fishes (this opens in a new tab)

Estuaries and Coasts (this opens in a new tab)

Fish Physiology and Biochemistry (this opens in a new tab)

Fisheries Science (this opens in a new tab)

Hydrobiologia (this opens in a new tab)

Journal of Applied Phycology (this opens in a new tab)

Journal of Coastal Conservation (this opens in a new tab)