Mexican Aquatic Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Physical and Chemical Characterization of Inland Waters

   • Javier Alcocer, Fernando W. Bernal-Brooks

   Pages 1-41

3. Biodiversity in Inland Waters

   • Javier Alcocer, Verónica Aguilar-Sierra

   Pages 43-75

4. Physicochemical Characterization of Mexican Coastal Lagoons, Current Status, and Future Environmental Scenarios

   • Francisco José Gutiérrez-Mendieta, Guadalupe de la Lanza Espino

   Pages 77-91

5. Microbiota in Brackish Ecosystems: From Water Quality to Ecological Processes

   • María del Rocío Torres-Alvarado, Mónica Bonilla-Salinas, Laura G. Calva-Benítez, Florina Ramírez Vives

   Pages 93-118

6. Biodiversity Associated with Southern Mexican Pacific Coral Systems

   • Andrés López-Pérez, Rebeca Granja-Fernández, Omar Valencia-Méndez, Cuauhtémoc Aparicio-Cid, Ana M. Torres-Huerta, Norma A. Barrientos-Luján et al.

   Pages 119-144

7. Fish Fry Stocking in Epicontinental Aquatic Systems: The Production Policy

   • Ana Laura Ibáñez, Eduardo J. Tlalpan

   Pages 145-164

8. Tuna Fisheries and Global Warming in Mexico

   • Enrique Ayala-Duval, María del Carmen Maldonado-Monroy

   Pages 165-179

9. Fishery Resource Management Challenges Facing Climate Change

   • Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, Mirtha O. Albañez-Lucero, Pablo Del Monte-Luna, Manuel J. Zetina-Rejón

   Pages 181-194

10. Emerging Aquatic Alien Invasive Species: Trends and Challenges for Mexican Fisheries in the Extended Gulf of Mexico Basin

    • César Meiners-Mandujano, Roberto González-Gómez, Lourdes Jiménez-Badillo, Gabriela Galindo-Cortes, Piedad S. Morillo-Velarde

    Pages 195-217

11. HABs (Harmful Algal Blooms) Analysis, Their Cost, and Ecological Consequences

    • Mónica Rodríguez-Palacio, Cruz Lozano-Ramírez, Sergio H. Alvarez-Hernández

    Pages 219-263

12. The Importance of Aquatic Protected Areas and Other Policy Instruments in Fisheries Management

    • David Gutierrez-Carbonell, Juan E. Bezaury-Creel

    Pages 265-276

13. Back Matter

    Pages 277-284

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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-stop resource for researchers, graduate students and environmental water managers alike. 
The result of a cooperation between 35 researchers from seven Mexican academic institutions, two Federal Commissions and one international organization, the book links science to practice for living organisms and their environment, while also addressing anthropogenic effects on our water ecosystems. Particularly the book addresses the following subjects: Biodiversity in inland waters, physical and chemical characterization of inland waters, physico-chemical characterization of Mexican coastal lagoons, microbiota in brackish ecosystems, diversity associated with southern Mexico’s pacific coral reefs, fry fish stockings in aquaticepicontinental systems, a review of tuna fisheries in Mexico, fishery resource management challenges stemming from climate change, aquatic invasive alien species, harmful algal blooms, and aquatic protected areas, related ecological and social problems and the importance for fisheries’ yield.

• Water biodiversity
• Fish stockings
• Fisheries facing climate change
• Invasive alien species
• Aquatic protected areas
• ecotoxicology
• Fish and Wildlife Biology
• marine and freshwater sciences

         

• Hydrobiology Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

  Ana Laura Ibáñez

Ana L. Ibáñez is a full time professor at the Department of Hydrobiology, The Metropolitan Autonomous University. With more than 25 years of experience in fish biology, she has researched various aspects of mullet biology, morphometric analysis and fish stocking. Besides her academic work she was the Coordinator of the Masters Program in Biology offered by her institution. Following her postdoctoral project at Hull International Fisheries Institute, UK, her research has focused on fish scales shape analysis for stock recognition, fish mullet population dynamics, and aquaculture-based fisheries. She is the author of more than 50 papers and chapters related to Mugilidae in saltwater: Mugil cephalus and M. curema and Tilapia in freshwater: Oreochromis aureus and O. niloticus and morphometry analysis.

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