Nematode communities as environmental indicators
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2014 |
| Descripción: | The use of environmental indicators is a topic of current interest. It allows us to describe the condition of an ecosystem and the pressures that is being subject. And at the same time indicate the effectiveness of the mitigation practices. Nematodes are among the organisms that have been studied for their potential as environmental indicators. These animals are cosmopolitan and play an important role in all ecosystems. Furthermore the nematode community predictably changes with the disturbances to the environment. These changes are related to indicators of ecosystems functions. There are taxa indicative of conditions in particular and indices have been developed to describe the diversity, community structure and ecological succession. Models have also been created, it are indicators of metabolic pathways in the soil ecosystem. These indices and models are based on different survival strategies that have nematodes. Colonizers nematodes are considered enrichment opportunist and persister nematodes indicate system stability. Moreover, with the development of modern sequencing techniques are expected to achieve assessing biodiversity more efficiently, making use of nematodes in environmental monitoring programs nationally and internationally. |
| País: | RepositorioTEC |
| Institución: | Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | RepositorioTEC |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositoriotec.tec.ac.cr:2238/4111 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/tec_marcha/article/view/1653 https://hdl.handle.net/2238/4111 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nematode communities; ecosystem evaluation; maturity index; environmental indicators Comunidades de nemátodos; evaluación de ecosis¬temas; índice de madurez; indicadores ambientales |