Land use scenarios, seasonality, and stream identity determine the water physicochemistry of tropical cloud forest streams.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Land use is a major factor determining stream water physicochemistry. However, most streams move from one land use type to another as they drain their watersheds. Here, we studied three land use scenarios in a tropical cloud forest zone in Mexico. We addressed three main goals, to: (1) assess how land use scenarios generate different patterns in stream physicochemical characteristics; (2) explore how seasonality (i.e., dry, dry-to-wet transition, and wet seasons) might result in changes to those patterns over the year; and (3) explore whether physicochemical patterns in different scenarios resulted in effects on biotic components (e.g., algal biomass).

Methods

We studied Tropical Mountain Cloud Forest streams in La Antigua watershed, Mexico. Streams

SUBMITTER: Vazquez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10249630 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature