Assessment of the potential responses of ecosystem services to anthropogenic threats in the Eten wetland,Peru
作者机构:Department of EngineeringPontificia Universidad Católica Del PerúLimaPeruFormerlyUniversidad De Ingenieria Y Tecnologia-UTECLimaPeru Department of EducationResearch&DevelopmentRed YakuLimaPeru Peruvian Life Cycle Assessment and Industrial Ecology Network-PELCANDepartment of EngineeringPontificia Universidad Católica Del PerúLimaPeru
出 版 物:《Ecosystem Health and Sustainability》 (生态系统健康与可持续性(英文))
年 卷 期:2021年第7卷第1期
页 面:215-231页
核心收录:
学科分类:083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程(可授工学、理学、农学学位)] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0713[理学-生态学]
基 金:This work was supported by the Sociedad Nacional de Minería,Petróleo y Energía[UTEC/871103] Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú[PADET 2019]
主 题:Ecosystem services wetland functions human-environment interactions Eten wetland coastal management
摘 要:Introduction:Coastal wetlands are currently threatened by human drivers,such as agriculture,infrastructure development,and urban *** on these ecosystems disturb their morphology and biogeochemical cycles,resulting in the degradation of ecosystem ***,little has been done to understand the wetland response to identify proper conservation *** the Peruvian coast,wetlands present a diversity of landscapes that face similar threats and pressures;however,the ecosystem response in each one may be ***:This study aims to assess the environmental impacts on ecosystem services based on the understanding of geomorphic features and the status of the Eten coastal wetland(Peru).Methods:The methodology combines the application of open-source GIS tools and the collection of field data to characterize the geomorphic settings and to analyze the changes in environmental ***,the main threats and pressures on the Eten wetland are defined and related to impacts on ecosystem services using a cause-effect ***:Overall,the results indicated that the river plays a vital role in defining the wetland landscape and *** biological diversity of aquatic habitats is disturbed by hydraulic structures and agricultural *** land use affects supporting and regulation services,such as water regulation.