A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecology and Conservation"

This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the different life-history strategies adopted by the notothenioid fishes to cope with the environmental conditions encountered across a wide latitudinal range, spanning from cold waters around the Antarctic continent to cold-temperate waters of sub-Antarctic Islands and the Magellan Region. The main topics to be covered include age and growth estimates, early life history and life span, reproductive traits, and feeding behavior.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021

Special Issue Editors: Mario La Mesa (CNR-ISP),  Facundo Manuel Llompart (CADIC-CONICET)

A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".

This Special Issue aims to compile scientific contributions on low temperature microbiology with a focus on current and future global challenges. Original research, review, and perspective papers addressing the following topic areas will be considered: Environmental change: e.g., the taxonomic and functional diversity of microbial communities in polar and alpine regions, biodiversity loss, biotic and abiotic interactions, biological processes and biogeochemical cycles, greenhouse gas production, ice-albedo, etc.; Long-term microbial preservation in nature: e.g., microbial ancient DNA (aDNA), viability and metabolic activity of microorganisms in ancient cryo-environments, old pathogens in melting glaciers and permafrost, etc.; Sustainable bioproducts and bioprocesses: e.g., omics-based approaches to the discovery of functional molecules, expression systems and fermentation strategies, cryo-enzymes, antimicrobials, biosurfactants and other cold-active biomolecules of biotechnological potential, etc.

Special Issue information  -  Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022.
Special Issue Editors: Amedea Perfumo (AWI), Angelina Lo Giudice (CNR-ISP)

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

This Special Issue invites contributions addressing all aspects of cold regions meteorology and the cryosphere interacting with the past, present and future climate system from both modeling and observations. Submissions from multiple approaches, i.e., past records, glaciers, ice caps, sea ice, permafrost, meteorological and geophysical observations, numerical modeling and downscaling methods aiming to advance the current knowledge of the feedbacks between the cryosphere and the climate system are encouraged. Interdisciplinary studies, as well as detailed process surveys, are highly welcome.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 February 2021.
Special Issue Editors: Renato R. Colucci (CNR-ISP)

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section Aquatic Systems - Quality and Contamination.

This Special Issue aims to present new research to advance our knowledge on all the aspects related to the proposed subject. Specifically, the topics of interest include but are not restricted to: Emerging and legacy pollutant analyses: occurrence and distribution of selected contaminants in water column and sediment; the role of the microbial community in transferring pollutants to higher trophic levels: to elucidate drivers and followers in this process and identify key-species for contaminant turn-over and accumulation; dynamics of natural microbial communities: to distinguish microbial community structure and function spatial and temporal changes; dynamics of contamination in polar and temperate aquatic ecosystems.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021 

Special Issue Editors:  Nicoletta Ademollo (CNR-ISP), Francesca Spataro (CNR-ISP),  Jasmin Rauseo (CNR-ISP) and  Luisa Patrolecco (CNR-ISP).