International audienceThe Sechura Desert provides a unique example of a vast palaeo-lagoon system on the Peruvian coast that was active during the first millennium AD.Reconstruction of coastal evolution is made possible by the good resolution of the sedimentary records of the Las Salinas Noroeste coastal plain.Evidence from morphostratigraphy and sedimentary facies indicates marked environmental diversity between the 3rd and the 8th centuries AD and a wide variability of sedimentary dynamics: lagoon foreshores received alternately fine distal marine sediments and coarser continental sediments in pro-deltaic sheets. Evaporation phases periodically occurred in these foreshores causing the formation of salt crusts. After a last high water level in the 8th century AD, the lagoon ultimately dried out and remains dry today. The malacofauna and sedimentary facies indicate that marine marshes bordered by vegetation, perhaps mangrove, developed in the higher parts of these lagoons. This palaeogeography is explained by the progressive build-up of a sand bar which started at least in the middle Holocene. From the 3rd to 8th centuries AD, the lagoon had limited connection to the sea in its northern end and hosted a warm-water and productive ecosystem that was exploited by pre-Hispanic populations. Wetter conditions in the Andes and occasional El Niño rainfalls maintained the lagoon during this period. The freshwater input likely stopped in the 8th century AD, which led to the closing of the shore bar under the influence of the longshore drift rapidly followed by the drying up of the lagoon, and the abandonment of the archaeological site
Se revisan las especies de la familia Chamidae en el Perú, la cual está constituida por once especies, distribuidas en los géneros Arcinella Schumacker, 1817 y Chama Linnaeus, 1758. Se registra por primera vez a Chama frondosa Broderip, 1835, Chama granti (Strong, 1934), Chama hicksi Valentich-Scott & Coan, 2010, Chama janus Reeve, 1847 y Chama producta Broderip, 1835. Se describen las especies y se proporciona datos sobre su distribución, ecología y otras observaciones relevantes.
Se registra en el humedal Los Pantanos de Villa, Lima, Perú, la presencia del cangrejo rojo de los pantanos, Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852), una especie nativa del centro y sur de los Estados Unidos de América y el noreste de México, lo que representa su primer registro en las aguas continentales del Perú. Esta especie posee una acentuada plasticidad ecológica, lo que le confiere un fuerte carácter invasivo que lo ha convertido en uno de los cangrejos de agua dulce de mayor distribución en el mundo. Es omnívoro y oportunista, pudiendo cambiar de dieta según el cuerpo de agua donde se establece, que unido a un ciclo de vida corto y gran facilidad para incrementar su población, representa una amenaza potencial para las especies nativas y los ecosistemas naturales. Los peces y las aves son sus principales predadores. En Los pantanos de Villa se le ha encontrado en los canales Vista Alegre, Ganaderos y Huaylas, entre el 22 de septiembre del 2019 y el 1 de mayo del 2021.
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