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A Classification System for Colombian Wetlands: an Essential Step Forward in Open Environmental Policy-Making

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Knowledge about the distribution and diversity of wetlands has become an essential tool for environmental management and policy-making. Yet, while recent estimates indicate that 27% of the area of Colombia is covered by wetlands and despite a number of regional studies, information about the diversity of wetlands nationally is scarce. In response, we present a national wetland classification system that is based on an ecological approach, from the perspective of wetland scientists, and which builds upon the assumptions underlying the flood pulse concept and hydrogeomorphic approach. Thus, the approach and structure of the Brazilian wetland classification system are used, with geomorphological adjustments made according to Colombia’s topography. The classification is hierarchical, multi-scale, functional, and organized according to four levels (system, macroregion, subsystem, and class), with the wetland diversity of Colombia represented nationally by 89 macrohabitats across marine-coastal, inland, and anthropogenic systems. The primary purpose of this classification is to provide integrated and organized information on the distribution and diversity of Colombian wetlands that will serve as a baseline for transparent environmental policy-making.

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This research was part of the project no. 13-014, funded by the Fondo Adaptación of Ministerio de Hacienda, and was conducted by members of the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (project no. 13-014). We thank the institutions that make up the Sistema Nacional Ambiental (SINA), which is coordinated by Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible de Colombia. We also thank all the institutions that joined this initiative and allowed their scientists to participate in its realization. The comments by the associated editor and three anonymous reviewers helped to improve the manuscript.

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  1. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia

    Luisa Fernanda Ricaurte, Jorge E. Patiño, Diego Fernando Restrepo Zambrano, Juan Carlos Arias-G, Oscar Acevedo, Cesar Aponte, Ruth Medina, Mauricio González, Sergio Rojas, Carlos Flórez, Lina M. Estupinan-Suarez, Úrsula Jaramillo, Ana Carolina Santos, Carlos A. Lasso & Sandra P. Vilardy Q

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Agrícola, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Colombia

    Ana Carolina Santos

  3. Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia

    Andrés Alberto Duque Nivia & Santiago Restrepo Calle

  4. Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Minas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Colombia

    Jaime Ignacio Vélez & José Humberto Caballero Acosta

  5. Grupo de Investigación Limnología Amazónica, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia

    Santiago R. Duque

  6. Grupo Ecosistemas Acuáticos, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi, Leticia, Colombia

    Marcela Núñez-Avellaneda

  7. Área de Ciencias del Mar, Escuela de Ciencias, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia

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  8. Programa Calidad Ambiental Marina, Instituto de Investigación Marinas y Costeras Invemar, Santa Marta, Colombia

    Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodríguez

  9. Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia

    Sandra P. Vilardy Q

  10. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Colombia

    Adriana Prieto-C & Agustín Rudas-Ll

  11. Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  12. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  13. Working Group of Tropical Ecology, Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany

    Wolfgang J. Junk

  14. National Institute of Science and Technology in Wetlands (INCT-INAU), Federal University of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil

    Wolfgang J. Junk

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Ricaurte, L.F., Patiño, J.E., Zambrano, D.F.R. et al. A Classification System for Colombian Wetlands: an Essential Step Forward in Open Environmental Policy-Making. Wetlands 39, 971–990 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01149-8

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