📋 Tender Overview
With the objective of knowing the temporal variability of the diversity and abundance of the Bentonic communities, a team of specialists from the Institute of the Sea of Peru - carried out an evaluation in the shallow submareal funds in front of San Lorenzo Island, located in Callao.
The field activities were carried out as part of a seasonal monitoring that is also executed in the months of September and December, according to favorable oceanographic and climatic conditions.
It should be noted that the Bentonian community is made up of a diverse set of organisms such as invertebrates, macroalgas and fish that live in close relationship with the seabed. In this case, the study concentrated on the shallow submareal, permanently submerged marine zone, comprised from the decreased line to approximately 20 meters deep.
This activity has great relevance to the region, since it allows you to obtain key information on the composition and structure of these communities, helping to identify possible impacts derived from human activities or natural events such as the child. In addition, it is developed in a marine area of particular ecological interest, due to the presence of Macrocystis Pyrimefera, a brown algae that forms extensive underwater forests in protected areas of the waves around San Lorenzo Island.
The forests of M. Pyrimefera not only structure the coastal marine ecosystem, but also serve as a habitat, shelter, food and reproduction zone for a wide variety of marine species, many of them with commercial value.
The monitoring of this biodiversity is key to the conservation and sustainable management of the marine ecosystem off the central coast of Peru.
