Social perceptions of ecosystem services delivered by coastal wetlands: their value and the threats they face in northwestern Mexico
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15451/ec2023-02-12.06-1-15Keywords:
climate change, Ecosystem Services, extrem rainfall event, social perception, wetlandsAbstract
Wetlands are recognized for their socio-environmental value and capacity to provide ecosystem services (ES) that are currently threatened by diverse drivers, including those derived from climate change. These changes in the ES delivery may not be recognized by their users, and to determine the extent to which communities are aware of the presence and importance of coastal wetlands, participatory workshops were held in four coastal communities in northwestern Mexico following the Metaplan methodology. The effects produced by extreme rainfall events (as a manifestation of climate change) on wetlands and their ES, were also analyzed. Four coastal wetlands (estuaries, saltmarshes, mangroves, and lagoons) were among the most important ecosystems, while poor fishing practices, mangrove deforestation, and pollution, were identified as their main threats. Climate change, land use changes and water mismanagement, also threat wetlands. There were a few differences among communities, mostly related to the number of ES and their categories; nonetheless, saltmarshes and mangroves were priority wetlands in the communities included in this study, recognizing the ES they provide. Most of the participants in all communities coincided on the main threats and pressures facing wetlands and their ES, particularly those related to climate change, which also affect their livelihoods. But, despite the awareness, regional coastal wetlands continue to decline, considering that participatory processes are necessary for establishing the importance of wetlands while incorporating traditional knowledge, alternative actions, and novel solutions into management actions that may be scaled from the community level into regional development strategies.
References
Agenda 21 (1992) https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/outcomedocuments/agenda21. Accessed 9 September 2022.
Agresti A (2007) An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis. Wiley, Canada. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/0470114754
Arellano-Aguilar O, Betancourt-Lozano M, Aguilar-Zárate G, Ponce de Leon-Hill C (2017) Agrochemical loading in drains and rivers and its connection with pollution in coastal lagoons of the Mexican Pacific. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189 (6): 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-5981-8
Artigas PE, Ramos RAE, Vargas RH (2014) La participación comunitaria en la conservación del medioambiente: Clave para el desarrollo local sostenible. DELOS. 7(21). https://www.eumed.net/rev/delos/21/conservacion.pdf
Barbier EB (2011) Wetlands as natural assets. Hydrological Sciences Journal 56(8):1360-1373 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2011.629787
Berlanga-Robles CA, Ruiz-Luna A (2002) Land use mapping and change detection in the coastal zone of Northwest Mexico using remote sensing techniques. Journal of Coastal Research Vol. 18, 3, 514-522.
Berlanga CA, Ruiz LA, De la Lanza G (2008) Esquema de clasificación de los humedales en México. Investigaciones Geográficas, Boletín del Instituto de Geografía, UNAM. 66: 25-46.
Berlanga-Robles CA, Ruiz-Luna A, Bocco G, Vekerdy Z (2011) Spatial analysis of the impact of shrimp culture on the coastal wetlands on the Northern coast of Sinaloa, Mexico. Ocean and Coastal Management 54: 535-543. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.04.004
Berlanga-Robles CA, Ruiz-Luna A, Hernández-Guzmán R (2021) Caracterización socioeconómica y ambiental de la zona costera del noroeste de México, por medio de indicadores. In: Cervantes-Escobar A, Hernández-Guzmán, R, Montijo-Galindo A, (eds.). Vulnerabilidad costera en el noroeste de México. Un enfoque multidisciplinario. CIAD. Pp. 15-42. ISBN: 978-607-7900-44-3.
Camacho-Valdez V, Ruiz-Luna A (2012) Marco conceptual y clasificación de los servicios ecosistémicos. Revista Bio Ciencias doi: 10.15741/revbio.01.04.02 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15741/revbio.01.04.02
Camacho-Valdez V, Ruiz-Luna A, Ghermandi A, Nunes PALD (2013) Valuation of ecosystem services provided by coastal wetlands in northwest Mexico. Ocean and Coastal Management doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.02.017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.02.017
Camacho-Valdez V, Ruiz-Luna A, Ghermandi A, Berlanga-Robles CA, Nunes PALD (2014) Effects of land use changes on the ecosystem service values of coastal wetlands. Environmental Management doi: 10.1007/s00267-014-0332-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-014-0332-9
Carpenter SR, Fisher SG, Grimm NB, Kitchell JF (1992) Global change and freshwater ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 119-139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.23.110192.001003
Carvajal AG (1994) Clima, suelo, boque y sus interrelaciones en la percepción de los Talamaqueños, Costa Rica. Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 20(1):43-64.
Clarkson BR, Ausseil AE, Gerbeaux P (2013) Wetland ecosystem services. In: Dymond J.R. (ed.). Ecosystem services in New Zealand – conditions and trends. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand.
CONABIO (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad). http://www.conabio.gob.mx/conocimiento/regionalizacion/doctos/terrestres.html Accessed: 14 September 2022.
Coneval (2021) https://municipal-coneval.hub.arcgis.com/. Accessed: 9 September 2022).
Costanza R, De Groot R, Braat L, Kubiszewski I, Fioramonti L, Sutton P, Farber St, Grasso M (2017) Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? Ecosystem Services Doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.09.008 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.09.008
Data Mexico (2021) https://datamexico.org/es/profile/geo/loreto?redirect=true Accessed: 9 September 2022.
Davidson NC (2014) How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area. Marine and Freshwater Research doi:10.1071/MF14173 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/MF14173
De Groot RS, Alkemade R, Braat L, Hein L, Willemen L (2010) Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision. Ecological Complexity. doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.10.006 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.10.006
Duarte CM, Alonso S, Benito G, Dachs J, Montes C, Pardo M, Ríos AF, Simó R, Valladares F (2006) Cambio global. Impacto de la actividad humana sobre el sistema Tierra. España: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. 165 p.
Émerit B (2008) Cambio climático y sustentabilidad económica y social: Implicaciones sobre el bienestar social CIRIEC-ESPAÑA, Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa 61: 51-72.
Ericson JA (2006) A participatory approach to conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Campeche, Mexico. Landscape and Urban Planning 74(3-4): 242-266. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.09.006 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.09.006
Flores VFJ, Casasola P, de la Lanza-Espino G, Agraz HC (2010) El manglar, otros humedales costeros y el cambio climático p. 165-188. En: Botello AV, Villanueva-Fragoso S, Gutiérrez J, Rojas GJL (ed.). Vulnerabilidad de las zonas costeras mexicanas ante el cambio climático. Semarnat-Ine, Unam-Icmyl, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche. 514 p.
García-Llorente M, Castro AJ, Quintas-Soriano C, Oteros-Rozas E, Iniesta-Arandia I, González JA, García del Amo D, Hernández-Arroyo M, Casado-Arzuaga I, Palomo I, Gómez-Baggethun E, Onaindia M, Montes C, Martín-López B (2020) Local perceptions of ecosystem services across multiple ecosystem types in Spain. Land 9 (9), 330; doi:10.3390/land9090330. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land9090330
Habershon N (1993) Metaplan (R): Achieving two-way communications. J. Eur. Ind. Train. 17: 8-13. doi:/10.1108/03090599310042528 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/03090599310042528
Hernández-Guzmán R, Berlanga-Robles CA, Ruiz-Luna A, Suazo-Ortuño I (2021) Cambios en la extensión de los humedales costeros del estado de Sinaloa, México. In: Cervantes-Escobar A, Hernández-Guzmán R, Montijo-Galindo A (eds.). Vulnerabilidad costera en el noroeste de México. Un enfoque multidisciplinario. CIAD. 147-164. ISBN: 978-607-7900-44-3.
Houde N (2007) The six faces of traditional ecological knowledge: challenges and opportunities for Canadian co-management arrangements. Ecology and Society 12(2):34. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art34/ES-2007-2270.pdf DOI: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02270-120234
Lebreton B, Rivaudb A, Picota L, Prévostb B, Barilléc L, Sauzeaud T, Beseres Pollacke J, Lavauda J (2019) From ecological relevance of the ecosystem services concept to its socio-political use. The case study of intertidal bare mudflats in the Marennes-Oléron Bay, France. Ocean and Coastal Management doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.01.024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.01.024
MacDonald PL, Gardner RC (2000) Type I error rate comparisons of post hoc procedures for I×J chi-square tables. Educational and Psychological Measurement 60: 735-754. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00131640021970871 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00131640021970871
Maltby E, Acreman MC (2011) Ecosystem services of wetlands: pathfinder for a new paradigm Hydrolog. Sci. J. doi:10.1080/02626667.2011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2011.631014
Mangiafico SS (2015) An R Companion for the Handbook of Biological Statistics, version 1.3.4. https://rcompanion.org/documents/RCompanionBioStatistics.pdf
Marín-Muñiz JL, Hernández AME, Silva RE, Moreno CP (2016) Percepciones sobre servicios ambientales y pérdida de humedales arbóreos en la comunidad de Monte Gordo, Veracruz. Madera y Bosques. 22: 53-69. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21829/myb.2016.221477
McDonald JH (2014) Handbook of Biological Statistics. Sparky House Publishing, Baltimore, Maryland. http://www.biostathandbook.com/#print
McMichael AJ (2013) Globalization, climate change, and human health. New England Journal of Medicine 368(14): 1335-1343. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1109341 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra1109341
Messerli P, Murniningtyas E, Eloundou-Enyegue P, Foli EG, Furman E, Glassman A, Richardson K (2019) Global sustainable development report 2019: The future is now–science for achieving sustainable development. https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/16067/1/24797GSDR_report_2019.pdf
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystem and human well-being: wetlands and water synthesis. World Resources Institute, Washington, DC. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/8735
Mitsch WJ (2016) Wetlands and climate change. National Wetlands Newsletter 38(1): 5-11. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291586979_Wetlands_and_Climate_Change
Mitsch WJ, Gosselink JG (2015) Wetlands. Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Moeder M, Carranza-Diaz O, López-Angulo G, Vega-Aviña R, Chávez-Durán FA, Jomaa S, Delgado-Vargas F (2017) Potential of vegetated ditches to manage organic pollutants derived from agricultural runoff and domestic sewage: A case study in Sinaloa (Mexico). Science of The Total Environment 598, 1106-1115. Doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.149 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.149
Olmsted I (1993) Wetlands of Mexico. In: Whigham DF, Dykyjová D, Hejný S. (eds) Wetlands of the world: Inventory, ecology and management Volume I. Handbook of vegetation science, 15(2). Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 637–678. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8212-4_13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8212-4_13
Ottinger M, Clauss K, Kuenzer C (2016) Aquaculture: Relevance, distribution, impacts and spatial assessments–A review. Ocean and Coastal Management doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.10.015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.10.015
Ramsar Convention (2008) Resolution X.3 The Changwon Declaration on human well-being and wetlands. Changwon, Republic of Korea. https://medwet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/COP10_key_res_x_03_Changwon_Declaration_2008.pdf
Rojas O, Zamorano M, Saez K, Rojas C, Vega C, Arriagada L, Basnou C (2017) Social perception of ecosystem services in coastal wetland post-earthquake: A case study in Chile. Sustainability doi:10.3390/su9111983. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su9111983
Ruiz–Luna A, Acosta VJ, Berlanga–Robles AC (2008) On the reliability of the data of extent of mangrove; a case study in Mexico. Ocean and Coastal Management 51: 342–351. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2007.08.004
Sage RF (2020) Global change biology: A primer. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.14893. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14893
SEMARNAT (2012) Los humedales en México. Oportunidades para la sociedad. https://biblioteca.semarnat.gob.mx/janium/Documentos/Cecadesu/Libros/Humedales.pdf
Stern N (2007) The economics of climate change: The Stern review. Cambridge Univ. Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511817434 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511817434
TEEB (2013) The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity for water and wetlands. London and Brussels, Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) & Ramsar Secretariat. 78 p.
Velázquez-Salazar S, Rodríguez-Zúñiga MT, Alcántara-Maya JA, Villeda-Chávez E, Valderrama-Landeros L, Troche-Souza C, Vázquez-Balderas B, Pérez-Espinosa I, Cruz-López MI, Ressl R, De la Borbolla DVG, Paz O, Aguilar-Sierra V, Hruby FC, Muñoa-Coutiño JH (2021) Manglares de México. Actualización y análisis de los datos 2020. CONABIO. México. https://agua.org.mx/biblioteca/manglares-de-mexico-actualizacion-y-analisis-de-los-datos-2020/
Vernon ME, Campos BR, Burnett RD (2019) A guide to climate-smart meadow restoration in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades. Point Blue Contribution, (2232). https://data.pointblue.org/apps/snamin/uploads/2019%20Climate%20Smart%20Meadow%20Restoration_MarianE.Vernon.pdf
West LJ, Hankin RK (2008) Exact tests for two-way contingency tables with structural zeros. J. Stat. Softw. 28: 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v028.i11
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Aimée Cervantes Escobar, Arturo Ruiz-Luna, César Alejandro Berlanga Robles
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
