L&O Special Issue on Life in turbulent waters: exploring unsteady biota-flow interactions across scales
Announcing the October 2023 L&O Special Issue Turbulent water motions can influence many aquatic organisms, by regulating biotic processes such as locomotion, grazing, heat transfer, nutrient uptake, and biogeochemical reactions. Conversely, the presence of organisms, such as mussel beds or macrophytes, can generate or enhance small-scale turbulence which then feeds back into larger-scale ecosystem responses. Despite rapid progress in this field over the past decades, there remain many fundamental and …