%0 Journal Article
	%A Ezequiel Garcia-Rodriguez and  Luis A. Ochoa-Franco and  Adrian I. Cervantes-Servin
	%D 2015
	%J International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 102, 2015
	%T Physical Habitat Simulation and Comparison within a Lerma River Reach, with Respect to the Same but Modified Reach, to Create a Linear Park
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001768
	%V 102
	%X In this work, the Ictalurus punctatus species estimated
available physical habitat is compared with the estimated physical
habitat for the same but modified river reach, with the aim of creating
a linear park, along a length of 5 500 m.
To determine the effect of ecological park construction, on
physical habitat of the Lerma river stretch of study, first, the available
habitat for the Ictalurus punctatus species was estimated through the
simulation of the physical habitat, by using surveying, hydraulics,
and habitat information gotten at the river reach in its actual situation.
Second, it was estimated the available habitat for the above species,
upon the simulation of the physical habitat through the proposed
modification for the ecological park creation. Third, it is presented a
comparison between both scenarios in terms of available habitat
estimated for Ictalurus punctatus species, concluding that in cases of
adult and spawning life stages, changes in the channel to create an
ecological park would produce a considerable loss of potentially
usable habitat (PUH), while in the case of the juvenile life stage PUH
remains virtually unchanged, and in the case of life stage fry the PUH
would increase due to the presence of velocities and depths of lesser
magnitude, due to the presence of minor flow rates and lower volume
of the wet channel.
It is expected that habitat modification for linear park construction
may produce the lack of Ictalurus punktatus species conservation at
the river reach of the study.
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