The use of macroinvertebrates and algae as indicators of riparian ecosystem services in the Mexican Basin: a morpho-functional approach

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 - Trang 1187-1200 - 2019
Angela Caro-Borrero1, Javier Carmona-Jiménez1
1Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Laboratorio Ecosistemas de Ribera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico

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Peri-urban rivers have been subjected to poor environmental management, especially in developing countries, due to urban expansion and channel transformation in the context of a lack of public conservation policies. As an example, Mexico City, the second largest city in the world, has a socioenvironmental mosaic that allows the evaluation of ecosystem services (ES) associated with aquatic ecosystems amid urbanistic pressures. The main objective of this research was to identify sites with the greatest ES potential supplied by conserved areas that are in a rural-urban transition using the ecological traits of riparian bioindicators, including eco-physiological metrics of communities and assemblages and hydromorphological quality. The aquatic ES most influenced by the peri-urban context was nutrient cycling through the incorporation of organic matter from the riparian ecosystem into the river. Water quantity was also influenced, due to local extraction and structures such as gabion dams. The support and provision ES were sensitive to changes in the geomorphology configuration. In conclusion our results showed that the biological morpho-functional indicators of blue ES were an objective tool to assess the state of river functioning and translate these functions into the language of decision makers. Finally, we determined that the ES provision into the Mexico Basin mainly responds to three major factors: physical characteristics, hydromorphological functioning and the functional ecology of organisms.

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