Title :

Benthic ecology of tropical coastal lagoons: Environmental changes over the last decades in the Términos Lagoon, Mexico

Author(s) :

Grenz, Christian [Auteur]
Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie [MIO]
Fichez, Renaud [Auteur]
Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie [MIO]
Silva, Carlos Álvarez [Auteur]
Benítez, Laura Calva [Auteur]
Conan, Pascal [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne [LOMIC]
Ruiz, Adolfo Contreras Ruiz [Auteur]
Denis, Lionel [Auteur]
Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 [LOG]
Ruiz, Silvia Díaz [Auteur]
Douillet, P. [Auteur]
Caractérisation et modélisation des échanges dans des lagons soumis aux influences terrigènes et anthropiques [CAMELIA]
Martinez, Margarita E. Gallegos [Auteur]
Ghiglione, Jean-François [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne [LOMIC]
Mendieta, Francisco José Gutiérrez [Auteur]
Origel-Moreno, Montserrat [Auteur]
Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie [MIO]
Garcia, Antonio Zoilo Marquez [Auteur]
Caravaca, Alain Muñoz [Auteur]
Pujo-Pay, Mireille [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne [LOMIC]
Alvarado, Rocío Torres [Auteur]
Zavala-Hidalgo, Jorge [Auteur]
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera [Mexico]

Journal title :

Comptes Rendus Géoscience

Pages :

319 - 329

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2017-10

English keyword(s) :

Multidisciplinary Study
Ecosystem
Estuaries
Coastal lagoon
Mexico
Terminos Lagoon

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Ecologie, Environnement/Ecosystèmes

English abstract : [en]

21 Terminos Lagoon is a 2000 km 2 wide coastal lagoon linked to the largest river catchment in Mesoamerica. Economic 22 development, together with its ecological importance, led the Mexican government to pronounce Terminos ...
Show more >21 Terminos Lagoon is a 2000 km 2 wide coastal lagoon linked to the largest river catchment in Mesoamerica. Economic 22 development, together with its ecological importance, led the Mexican government to pronounce Terminos Lagoon and 23 its surrounding wetlands as a Federal protected area for flora and fauna in 1994. It is characterized by small temperature 24 fluctuations but with two distinct seasons (wet and dry) that control the biological, geochemical and physical processes 25 and components. This paper presents a review of available information on Terminos Lagoon. The review shows that 26 diversity of benthic communities is structured by the balance between marine and riverine inputs and that this 27 structuration strongly influences the benthic metabolism and its coupling with the biogeochemistry of the water column. 28 The paper also presents a number of specific drivers and recommendations for a long term environmental survey strategy 29 in the context of expected Global Change in the Centro America region. 30 31Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187

Source :

Harvested from HAL