TITLE:
A Review of Water Quality Indices Used to Assess the Health Status of High Mountain Wetlands
AUTHORS:
María Custodio
KEYWORDS:
Water Quality, Biotic Indices, Diversity Indices, Conventional Indices, Sustainable Management
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ecology,
Vol.9 No.3,
March
26,
2019
ABSTRACT: The health status of wetlands depends to a large
extent on the permanence and quality of water. However, natural and
anthropogenic pressures on these ecosystems are transforming them and driving
them to generate timely and reliable information. The aim of this study is to
provide a review of water quality indices used to assess the health status of high
mountain wetlands. To this end, an exhaustive search was initially carried out
for studies with significant contributions to the knowledge of high mountain
wetlands in Peru. In total, 90 articles on wetlands published in the last
decade (2007-2017) were reviewed through bibliographic managers, of which 25%
corresponded to wetland studies in Peru and of these only 6% to water quality
in high Andean wetlands.