Mexican Aquatic Environments A General View from Hydrobiology to Fis
Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, this book highlights current challenges in, and potential solutions to, environmental water management in Mexico. It includes an essential review of current literature and state of the art research, providing a one-s
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xican Aquatic Environments A General View from Hydrobiology to Fisheries
Mexican Aquatic Environments
Ana Laura Ibáñez Editor
Mexican Aquatic Environments A General View from Hydrobiology to Fisheries
Editor Ana Laura Ibáñez Hydrobiology Department Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Ciudad de Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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To the public universities and research centers of Mexico.
Preface
Mexico is a country of huge contrasts, with deserts at the North and at the South with rain forests and big marsh at the peninsula of Yucatan. Mexico has 11,122 km of mainland coastline bathed by two great oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic (with the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea). According to CONABIO, Mexico has large marine richness. The Gulf of California, with 1200 km long by 150 km wide and up to 4000 m deep, is one of the most diverse seas in the world where its high productivity is due to currents of upwelling where nutrients circulate from the bottom to the surface. In the Gulf of California, 875 species of fish, 580 of seabirds and 32 of marine mammals (including the vaquita marina) have been registered. The world’s second largest coral reef is located in the Caribbean: the Mesoamerican Reef that extends from Mexico (Yucatan and Quintana Roo) to Honduras with an area of around 1000 km where about 60 species of coral, 350 species of mollusk, and 500 species of fish live. Its peculiar geography gives it a great biodiversity. Mexico is one of the 12 meg
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