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Aquatic Environments

Aquatic environments are the water-based ecosystems of the Earth, encompassing marine systems such as oceans, seas, and estuaries and freshwater systems including rivers, lakes, wetlands, and groundwater. They provide habitat and resources for a vast range of organisms, regulate global biogeochemical cycles, and con…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 9× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2643-0282 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Aquatic environments are the water-based ecosystems of the Earth, encompassing marine systems such as oceans, seas, and estuaries and freshwater systems including rivers, lakes, wetlands, and groundwater. They provide habitat and resources for a vast range of organisms, regulate global biogeochemical cycles, and contribute substantially to oxygen production, carbon uptake, and climate regulation. These environments are characterised by physical and chemical gradients, salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, and pH, that structure the distribution of life and the functioning of food webs. Within marine and aquatic science, research examines the ecological processes that sustain these systems and the pressures that disturb them. Key concerns include pollution from industrial, agricultural, and urban sources, the contamination of rivers and surface waters near intensive activity, the effects of toxins such as cyanobacterial microcystins, and the broad consequences of climate change, including the role of aquatic and terrestrial plants in atmospheric carbon uptake. Sustainable management of fisheries and the impact of human activities on water quality are recurring themes, reflecting the need to balance resource use with ecosystem integrity. By integrating ecology, hydrology, chemistry, and environmental management, the study of aquatic environments seeks to understand how these systems respond to natural variation and human stressors, and to inform the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of the water habitats on which biodiversity and human wellbeing depend.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 9 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Aquatic Environments, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Marine Science Journal (ISSN 2643-0282).

Journal editorial board
Begoña Martínez-Crego · Portugal Timo Arula · Estonia Raffaella Casotti · Italy

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