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<journal-id>0188-8897</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Hidrobiológica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Hidrobiológica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0188-8897</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, División de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0188-88972016000100002</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La importancia ecológica de las algas en los ríos]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The ecological importance of algae in rivers]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bojorge-García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Miriam G.]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cantoral Uriza]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Enrique A.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación Facultad de Ciencias]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Juriquilla Querétaro]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>26</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>8</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0188-88972016000100002&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0188-88972016000100002&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0188-88972016000100002&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: A través de una revisión de diversos estudios, se realiza un planteamiento de la estructura y función que tienen las algas bentónicas en los ríos, desde un punto de vista de la ecología de comunidades, la participación que tienen en la productividad primaria autóctona de los ríos y su ecofisiología, en los ciclos biogeoquímicos del agua, su aporte energético en las redes tróficas, la función que tienen en la dinámica hídrica de los ambientes lóticos, su uso como indicadores biológicos y se plantean algunos usos que se han realizado con especies de estos ambientes en la industria farmaceútica y alimenticia.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: After reviewing several studies, we set out a proposal regarding the structure and function of benthic algae in rivers. We use an approach that considers the ecology of communities, the role of benthic algae in the rivers' autochthonous primary productivity and their eco-physiology in the biogeochemical cycles of the water, their energy intake in food webs, the role they play in the hydrological dynamics in lotic environments, and their use as biological indicators. Finally, pharmaceutical and food industry use of the species in these environments is reviewed.]]></p></abstract>
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