Worldwide, coastal wetlands are currently threatened by human activities such as agriculture, infrastructure development, resource exploitation, and urban sprawl. Pressures on these ecosystems disturb their morphology, hydrology, and biogeochemical cycles, thus resulting in the degradation of ecosystem services quality. However, little has been done to understand the coastal wetland response to identify the most efficient conservation and mitigation strategy. Along the Peruvian coast, wetlands present a diversity of landscapes and features. Even though threats and pressures would be similar, the ecosystem response in each environment may be different. In this context, this study describes a methodology to assess the impacts of human activities on ecosystem services based on the understanding of geomorphic features and current state of the Eten coastal wetland, located in northern Peru. T...

Worldwide, coastal wetlands are currently threatened by human activities such as agriculture, infrastructure development, resource exploitation, and urban sprawl. Pressures on these ecosystems disturb their morphology, hydrology, and biogeochemical cycles, thus resulting in the degradation of ecosystem services quality. However, little has been done to understand the coastal wetland response to identify the most efficient conservation and mitigation strategy. Along the Peruvian coast, wetlands present a diversity of landscapes and features. Even though threats and pressures would be similar, the ecosystem response in each environment may be different. In this context, this study describes a methodology to assess the impacts of human activities on ecosystem services based on the understanding of geomorphic features and current state of the Eten coastal wetland, located in northern Peru. T...