Bibliographic citations
León, R., (2022). Resiliencia de la comunidad de meiobentos en tres playas del Ecuador frente al evento El Niño 2015 - 2016 [Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/5293
León, R., Resiliencia de la comunidad de meiobentos en tres playas del Ecuador frente al evento El Niño 2015 - 2016 []. PE: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/5293
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title = "Resiliencia de la comunidad de meiobentos en tres playas del Ecuador frente al evento El Niño 2015 - 2016",
author = "León Mateo, Raquel Elizabeth",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina",
year = "2022"
}
Resilience is defined as the ability of a system to recover after a disturbance and return to a state similar to the original it was in, or to maintain certain key pre-existing functional characteristics. The objective of this study was to determine the resilience of the meiobenthic communities in the face of the “El Niño” 2015-16 event, in three Ecuadorian beaches. This resilience was measured using a multivariate index of resilience (IMR) and in terms of the restoration of the community attributes of the meiobentos before, during and after this phenomenon influences the coast of Ecuador. A set of three sampling stations was monitored for a period of one year, characterizing the changes in the meiobenthic composition and as a function of the environmental variability of seawater and beach sediment. The results show that the taxonomic groups found on the sandy beaches of San Vicente are Nematodes, Flatworms, Copepods, Oligochaetes, Polychaetes, Foraminifera and Alacarids, with nematodes being the group with the highest density of individuals per cm2 with 80 to 90%. Also, the beaches of Canoa and Briceño are moderately resilient, while Punta Napo shows a low index of resilience. The multivariate trajectories show that the 2015-16 El Niño event affected the meiobenthic communities of the three beaches until March 2016, together with the climatic effects of environmental seasonality and the April 2016 earthquake, on the other hand, changes in the abundances of the communities of the beach ecosystem are dynamic, since they change from an original state to another impacted state, but the taxonomic composition did not present significant changes.
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