Does the diversity of vegetation and diatoms correlate with soil and water factors in a tropical cloud forest’s complex land use/land cover scenario?

• Published in: Environmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 196; no. 10; p. 916
• Main Authors: Vázquez, Gabriela, García-Franco, José G., Castillo-Campos, Gonzalo, Martínez, M. Luisa, Mehltreter, Klaus, Campos, Adolfo, Favila, Mario E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.10.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aluminium; Aluminum; Ammonium; Ammonium compounds; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Bacillariophyceae; Benthos; Biodiversity; Carbon exchange; Cations; chlorophyll; Cloud forests; Coffee; Correlation; Decomposing organic matter; Diatoms; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecology; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Management; Environmental Monitoring; Exchange capacity; Forest management; Forests; Humus; Land conservation; Land cover; Land use; Landscape preservation; Livestock; Magnesium; Marine microorganisms; Mexico; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Pasture; Pastures; Phosphorus; Phosphorus - analysis; Plankton; Plantations; Plants; Riparian land; Riparian vegetation; River basins; Rivers; Rivers - chemistry; Soil; Soil - chemistry; soil carbon; Soil conservation; Soil temperature; Soil water; Soils; Solid suspensions; species diversity; Stream water; Streams; Suspended particulate matter; Total suspended solids; Tropical clouds; Tropical forests; tropical montane cloud forests; Vegetation; Water conservation; Water quality; Water temperature; watersheds; Mexico; Antigua; Taxonomic diversity; Diatoms; Tropical streams; Riparian vegetation; Land use/land cover

Soil and water characteristics in micro basins with different land uses/land cover (LULC) can influence riparian vegetation diversity, stream water quality, and benthic diatom diversity. We analyzed 18 streams in the upper part of the La Antigua River basin, México, surrounded by cloud forests, live...