Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Estado ecológico de dos arroyos serranos del sur de Córdoba, Argentina

2011; Volume: 21; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

1667-782X

Cristina Mabel Gualdoni, Claudia Alejandra Duarte, Erica Alejandra Medeot,

Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Ecological status of two mountain streams of the south of Cordoba, Argentina: The development of methodology that allows us to assess the environmental deterioration of fluvial systems from the biotic components has been of high attention in the last time. With the aim to evaluate the ecological state of two mountains streams in sections that cross communes of tourist interest, indexes of water and riparian forest quality were combined. In each stream, two stations were selected, one downstream and the other upstream of the recreation areas. Environmental data were registered and benthos samples were collected in the main geomorphological units, during