PLANKTOLOGY IN MEXICO THROUGH THE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF THE MEXICAN SOCIETY OF PLANKTOLOGY A. C. (1985–2019)
SOMPAC: Planktology in Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.37543/oceanides.v35i(1-2).266Keywords:
History, mexican planctology, limnlogy, oceanographyAbstract
The historical archives of the Mexican Society of Planktology C.A. (SOMPAC) show the research evolution of plankton in Mexico through the content of 2,060 abstracts presented in 22 meetings from 1985 to 2019. A considerable increase in the number of abstracts has been seen in the successive meeting; which highlights the enormous effort directed mainly to descriptive ecology studies in the Mexican Pacific Northwest region, the Gulf of California, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. However, in the southern Mexican Pacific plankton studies still practically null. Plankton in epicontinental ecosystems has been comparatively less studied than marine ecosystems, being the Alchichica lagoon as well as some aquatic ecosystems in the central region of Mexico that concentrated more than 70% of the abstracts, followed by research done in southeastern Mexico. However, research on the plankton of epicontinental ecosystems remains almost unexplored in the states of the northern border of Mexico, including the peninsula of Baja California as well as the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas to the south. Except for two research programs in the Northwest Pacific of Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Alchichica lagoon (epicontinental ecosystem), there are no long-term monitoring programs on scales of large ecosystems that allow a broad understanding of the function of the pelagic ecosystem based on the study of plankton.
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