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Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams

Authors: Blanca Ríos-Touma, Christian Villamarín, Gabriela Jijón, Jackie Checa, Genoveva Granda-Albuja, Edison Bonifaz, Laura Guerrero-Latorre

Published in: Urban Ecosystems | Issue 6/2022

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Andean rivers support an amazing biodiversity and provide important environmental services for Andean landscapes like water for agriculture and human consumption. Urban areas in Andean countries have grown at an accelerated rate in the last decades. As a consequence, a lack of wastewater treatment and riparian preservation have threatened these streams. We studied urban, agricultural, and well-preserved streams in the Upper Guayllabamba River Basin, where Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, is located. We found an aquatic insect richness loss of 78% in urban impacted streams. Urbanization extent within a watershed was strongly related to pollution and water quality decline, and aquatic insect community composition shifts to less diverse assemblages. Urban streams in Quito have lost most of their biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, they are important green areas for citizens and deserve better attention. Well-preserved streams in the area need protection since they host a rich biodiversity that we are starting to describe.

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Title: Aquatic biodiversity loss in Andean urban streams
Authors: Blanca Ríos-Touma
Christian Villamarín
Gabriela Jijón
Jackie Checa
Genoveva Granda-Albuja
Edison Bonifaz
Laura Guerrero-Latorre
Publication date: 14-06-2022
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Urban Ecosystems / Issue 6/2022
Print ISSN: 1083-8155
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1642
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01248-1

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