Evaluation of Two Ecosystem Services Provided by a Pistia stratiotes Population on the Pacific Coast of South America.

ABSTRACT: One of the most fascinating wetlands on Peru's central coast is the Santa Rosa wetland (Chancay, Lima), an ecosystem threatened by anthropogenic activities. Some of these impacts have led to the uncontrolled growth of Pistia stratiotes, an invasive aquatic plant. This study sought to quantify the regulation and provisioning of ecosystem services provided by P. stratiotes using carbon storage and the provision of biomass as indicators. To this end, the biomasses of 50 plots measuring 0.0625 m² were weighed and georeferenced and the percentages of dry biomass (%DB) and total organic carbon in the biomass (%C) were quantified. The biomass and its coordinates were entered into ArcGIS and a Kriging interpolation technique was applied to determine the total amount of bio

SUBMITTER: Zamora-Aranda A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11351440 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature