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  • Open Access
3 Citations
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Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Terminos Lagoon, Campeche, Mexico

  • César Sánchez-Rucobo y Huerdo,
  • Ma. Eugenia Allende-Arandía,
  • Bernardo Figueroa-Espinoza,
  • Estefanía García-Caballero,
  • Adolfo Contreras-Ruiz Esparza and
  • Christian M. Appendini

9 May 2023

The implementation of renewable energies represents a crucial step in meeting the sustainable development goal of the United Nations for affordable and clean energy. The Terminos Lagoon region in Campeche, the largest coastal lagoon in Mexico, offers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,620 Views
14 Pages

Microplastics Ingestion by Copepods in Two Contrasting Seasons: A Case Study from the Terminos Lagoon, Southern Gulf of Mexico

  • Ana Montoya-Melgoza,
  • Erik Coria-Monter,
  • María Adela Monreal-Gómez,
  • Elizabeth Durán-Campos,
  • David Alberto Salas-de-León,
  • John S. Armstrong-Altrin,
  • Benjamín Quiroz-Martínez and
  • Sergio Cházaro-Olvera

This study evaluated the ingestion of microplastics (MP) by copepods in Terminos Lagoon (TL), a RAMSAR-listed site in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The evaluation was carried out in two contrasting seasons of 2022, as follows: the dry (April) and the...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,983 Views
13 Pages

Source Identification, Toxicity, and Persistence of PAHs in Sediment Core from a Natural Protected Area in Mexico

  • Jose Emilio Queb-Suarez,
  • Alejandro Ruiz-Marin,
  • Yunuen Canedo-Lopez,
  • Claudia Alejandra Aguilar-Ucan,
  • Carlos Montalvo-Romero,
  • Juan Gabriel Flores-Trujillo and
  • Nancy Perez-Morga

28 September 2022

Sediment cores maintain a historical record of the various sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In 2020, one sediment core was collected within the oyster farming area of the Pom–Atasta lagoon system and the Terminos lagoon. A to...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,739 Views
15 Pages

Porewater Sulfide: The Most Critical Regulator in the Degradation of Mangroves Dominated by Tides

  • Rosela Pérez-Ceballos,
  • Arturo Zaldívar-Jiménez,
  • Sveidy Melgarejo-Salas,
  • Julio Canales-Delgadillo,
  • Jorge López-Portillo,
  • Martín Merino-Ibarra,
  • Omar Celis-Hernandez,
  • Ana Laura Lara-Domínguez and
  • Jonathan Ochoa-Gómez

16 August 2022

The hydroperiod determines the biogeochemical conditions and processes developing in the mangrove soil. Floods control the input of nutrients and the presence of regulators such as salinity and sulfides that, in high concentrations, degrade mangrove...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,348 Views
18 Pages

Geoacumulation of Heavy Metals in Sediment of the Fluvial–Lagoon–Deltaic System of the Palizada River, Campeche, Mexico

  • Gabycarmen Navarrete-Rodríguez,
  • María del Refugio Castañeda-Chávez and
  • Fabiola Lango-Reynoso

The fluvial–lagoon–deltaic system of the Palizada River in Campeche is an ecosystem of socioeconomic and ecological importance. It is justifiable to carry out studies in this system due to its connection with another larger ecosystem call...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,886 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2016

Deltas and estuaries built by the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River (MAR) in the United States and the Usumacinta/Grijalva River (UGR) in Mexico account for 80 percent of all Gulf of Mexico (GoM) coastal wetlands outside of Cuba. They rank first and seco...