The Academic Unit of Reef Systems in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, located on the Mesoamerican barrier reef in the Mexican Caribbean, gathers a group of specialists who perform studies on ecosystem structure and function of coral. The topics covered include approaches at different scales, from the physiology of various organisms to the ecosystem level, covering topics on commercially important species and the phenomenon of coral bleaching, which affect the conservation and use of this remarkable resource natural.
Our mission is to study aspects of this system, including the lives of organisms that inhabit it, their relationships, the structure that collectively produce, and coastal and oceanic influence on them.
The scale at which we study these components varies greatly in space and time. Not only studying molecular processes that occur in seconds within the cells of reef organisms, but we cover all avenues to be known as the reefs grow and develop over thousands of years.
Areas of Research
Scientists in our unit study many aspects of coral reefs. Our researchers have expertise in various fields of science and often interact to study important processes and mechanisms affecting the reef and surrounding environment:
- coral communities
- crustaceans
- Photobiology
- Reef Geology
- microbiology
- seagrass
- plankton
- Toxicology
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