Special Issue

Climate Change and Environment

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2026 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Thomas Fickert, PhD

German Alpine Association Baden-Wuerttemberg branch, Departement for Nature Conservation, Stuttgart, Germany

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Research Interests: Vegetation Geography with a focus on Disturbance Ecology, Succession, and Phytoindication; Mangrove Ecology; Ecology of Arid and Mediterranean Subtropics; Comparative High Mountain Research; Vegetation Dynamics; Plant Succession; Regeneration; Long-term Monitoring

About This Topic

Climate change is real! Beside considerably affecting the human livelihood (health issues, food and water insecurity, hazards…), climate change has significant impacts for the natural environment on earth, too. Rising temperatures induce more extreme weather events such as heatwaves, floods, and droughts, disturbing ecosystem functioning and threatening biodiversity. Ecosystems are affected by modified abiotic environmental conditions (soil moisture, thermal growing condition, erosion, disrupted food webs, melting glaciers, rising sea level, etc. just to name a few) and react with modified plant and animal species inventories (including invasive species), as well as shifting distribution boundaries of both singular species and whole ecosystems. The special Issue of the LIDSEN journal “Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research” is aimed to provide a platform to present and discuss recent findings of climate change effects on the environment. Submissions and case studies from all ecosystems and from all parts on earth are welcome.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (aeer@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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Publication

Open Access Review Climatic Risks in South American Coastal Ecosystems: A Mixed-Methods Review by Gustavo J. Nagy  , Nathalie Muñoz  , Isabel C. Olivares  and Isaías Lescher Soto Received: 20 January 2026;  Published: 09 July 2026;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2603019 Abstract South America’s coastal ecosystems face increasing threats from multiple climatic stressors, including sea-level rise, ocean warming, intensifying heatwaves, shifts in ENSO patterns, ocean acidification, glacier melt, and more frequent extremes such as storms, droughts, and altered river discharges. These processes accelerate biodiversit [...]