Abstract

IZQUIERDO SANTACRUZ, Mónica Lucía  and  MADRONERO PALACIOS, Sandra Milena. ECOLOGICAL FLOW REGIMEN, MANAGEMENT TOOLTO PRESERVE ACUATIC BIOTA. Cienc. Ing. Neogranad. [online]. 2013, vol.23, n.2, pp.77-94. ISSN 0124-8170.

ABSTRACT In this review article was consolidated information about ecological flow regime to become a management tool in the conservation of aquatic biota. This way is considered important to inform the academic community and development actors on the importance of water resource management, the analysis of the environmental and ecological flow concepts the description of the different methodologies allowing his determination and environmental regulations related to water management and ecological flow. Finally emphasizing in the methodologies ecohydraulic, implementing of IFIM-PHABSIM model ,considered the methodology of the fluvial habitat modeling, which is required in the relationship information between the density of aquatic organisms and the hydraulic, speed variable, depth and substrate composition. Obtaining as a result habitat suitability curves and indices of suitability which will allow understanding the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, using that information in the management and planning of water resources.

Keywords : Aquatic biota; ecological flow; habitat suitability curves; regimen ecological flow; water resource management.

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