Marine Benthos: Biology, Ecosystem Functions and Environmental Impact

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Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez (Editor)
Departamento de Biología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Mexico

Series: Marine Biology
BISAC: SCI039000

Marine Benthos: Biology, Ecosystem Functions and Environmental Impact is a book dedicated to show a series of case studies about how benthic habitats are organized and how they function as a tool for any environmental impact studies. The present book documents how the natural condition of these communities is and aims to expand our present knowledge about their organization. The human population growth is driving a very strong pressure over coastal areas, and now more than ever we urgently need elements to evaluate environmental impacts. One of the most striking situations is the loss of biodiversity and the increase of invasive species who modify the trophic networks as well as the community structure. Many endangered species and species related to fisheries depend on the benthic habitat for their basic life cycle stages (reproduction, recruitment, nursery and feeding grounds) who might be impacted by natural and human induced causes. Ranging from species richness studies to population and community structure chapters, this book will bring the reader many options on how to measure environmental impacts. In particular, an analysis of how these environmental studies are made in Mexico provided a good example of how the present report base model is overdue and expresses the need for another approach. Keep in mind the present model does not take into account any statistical approach and is not mandatory in terms of the synergic and accumulative impacts; the lack of this consistency makes evaluation impossible to tell if the impacts are really happening. (Imprint: Nova)

 

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Importance of Benthos in the Trophic Structure of the Ichthyofauna of Los Frailes Reef, Gulf of California, Mexico
X. G. Moreno-Sánchez, D. S. Palacios-Salgado, L. A. Abitia-Cárdenas, O. Escobar-Sánchez, M. S. Irigoyen-Arredondo, Jorge S. Ramirez Perez and D. P. Ramírez-Lara (Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), Av. IPN s/n La Paz Baja California Sur, México, and others)

Chapter 2. Marine Seaweeds of the Yucatan Peninsula: Diversity, Economic Importance and Conservation
Catalina Mendoza-González, Luz Elena Mateo-Cid, Deisy Yazmín García-López, Julio A. Acosta-Calderón, Alessandry Vázquez-Rodríguez, C. Mariana Hernández-Casas & A. Gerardo A. Garduño-Acosta (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas Departamento de Botánica. Carpio y Plan de Ayala, Col. Santo Tomás, México)

Chapter 3. Benthic Assemblages in South American Intertidal Rocky Shores: Biodiversity, Services, and Threats
Patricia Miloslavich, Juan José Cruz-Motta, Alejandra Hernández, César Herrera, Eduardo Klein, Francisco Barros, Gregorio Bigatti, Maritza Cárdenas, Alvar Carranza, Augusto Flores, Patricia Gil-Kodaka, Judith Gobin, Jorge Gutiérrez, Marcos Krul, Juan F. Lazarus, Edgardo Londoño, Tito Lotufo, Erasmo Macaya, Elba Mora, Sergio Navarrete, Gabriela Palomo, Mirtala Parragué, Franciane Pellizzari, Rosana Rocha, Leonardo Romero, Roberto Retamales, Roger Sepúlveda, Michelle C. Silva, Sabrina Soria (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela, and others)

Chapter 4. Evaluation of Biomass and Reproductive Aspects of Invasive Algae Acanthophora spicifera in Punta Roca Caimancito B.C.S Mexico
Valerie Chantal Gabrielle Schnoller, Juan Manuel López Vivas, Rafael Riosmena Rodríguez, Jorge Manuel López Calderón (Programa de Investigacion en Botánica Marina, Departamento Académico de Biología Marina, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, México, and others)

Chapter 5. Environmental Impacts on Marine Benthic Communities in an Industrialized Caribbean Island-Trinidad and Tobago
Judith F. Gobin (Dept. of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)

Chapter 6. Prediction of Zostera Marina Shoot Growth, Leaf Production, Leaf Area and Shoot Weight using the Sheath Length
Alf E. Meling-López, Silvia E. Ibarra-Obando, Horacio de la Cueva, Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Pedro Ortega Romero, Adriana Leticia Navarro Verdugo (Departamento de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas de la Universidad de Sonora. Rosales y Niños Héroes, Sonora, México, and others)

Chapter 7. Distribution and Ecology of the Pacific Lobsterette Nephropsis Occidentalis Faxon, 1893 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidea), on the Continental Slope Off Western Mexico
Vanesa Papiol, Michel E. Hendrickx, and David Serrano (Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México, and others)

Chapter 8. Sea Turtles as Ecosystem Indicators: Situation in Mexico
Maria Monica Lara Uc and Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez (Programa de Investigación en Botánica Marina, Departamento de Biología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, México)

Chapter 9. Similarity in Mollusk Assemblages Associated with Conspicuous Habitat Formers in Northwest México
María del Carmen Méndez Trejo and Rafael Riosmena Rodríguez (Programa de Investigación en Botánica Marina, Departamento Académico de Biología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, México)

Chapter 10. A Critique of the Environmental Impact Studies in México Based on two Study Cases
Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez and Rocío Marcín-Medina (Programa de Investigación en Botánica Marina, Departamento de Biología Marina, UABCS, México, and others)

Index

 

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