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Título del libro: Mexican Aquatic Environments: A General View From Hydrobiology To Fisheries
Título del capítulo: Biodiversity in Inland Waters

Autores UNAM:
JAVIER ALCOCER DURAND;
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Idioma:

Año de publicación:
2019
Palabras clave:

Endemic species; Environmental policy instruments; Freshwater biodiversity; Lakes; Priority sites for conservation; Rivers; Species richness; Systematic conservation planning; Wetlands


Resumen:

Mexico is considered a megadiverse country; it is one of the few countries that possess 70% of the vertebrate and vascular plant species worldwide; however, little is known about the diversity of Mexican freshwaters, and it is unknown if these ecosystems present the same trend of high biodiversity that terrestrial communities show. The present chapter provides an insight on the biodiversity in inland waters of Mexico through first introducing the regionalizations and inventories at different scales that have been done to identify those areas or sites in which important ecological and evolutionary phenomena occur, including biodiversity and endemisms, and, second, compiling the scattered information available on lentic, lotic, and wetland biodiversity of Mexico and illustrating this by particular cases (water bodies and ecosystems) worth mentioning. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.


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