Project Mundo Azul / The Nature Conservancy

Identification of conservation targets in the South of the Guayaquil Ecoregion (Peru)

Year: 2001
Project Director: Stefan Austermühle
Field Assistants / Divers: Rosaura Carbajal Sayan, Luciana Klinge Ambrossini, Valeria Verme Gómez Sánchez, Maria Paz Muñoz Velásquez, Valerie Villaran, Jose Galván Puertas, Andrea Luna Donoso
Location: northern Peruvian coast from Peninsula of Bayovar to Tumbes

Goals:

• Planning of activities and creation of theoretical framework for the evaluation of biodiversity in intertidal and subtidal areas of the northern coast of Peru.
• Identification of habitat types in the intertidal zones along the northern coast with a description of algae, invertebrates and fish, as well as identification of different types of use, threats and conservation status.
• Identification of subtidal habitats, within sampling sites and emphasis on fish and invertebrate communities as well as types of use, threats and conservation status in each sampling site.
• Collection of intertidal and subtidal species for their incorporation in Mundo Azul´s reference collection.
• Photographic register of all collected species.
• Data base on sampling sites and species encountered in each sampling site.

Results:
The results are part of the publication on eco-regional planning of “The Nature Conservancy for the Ecoregion Guayaquil”.

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Page author: Stefan Austermühle