Although present in great number on a reduced territory, wetlands of the Galapagos archipelago (East Pacific, lat. 0°), especially coastal lagoons, have been poorly studied. The various studies available on the subject concern mainly geological or physico-chemical conditions or avifauna.
The aquatic fauna and the functioning of the lagoon ecosystem, for their part, have been only little investigated till our study, carried out between 2001 and 2002. Results obtained during this work give (...)