Academic Unit of Aquatic Ecology and Biodiversity

The Academic Unit of Aquatic Ecology and Biodiversity focuses his studies at a primary component of the marine environment, preferably interdisciplinary perspective. It consists of groups exploring biodiversity and functional processes of biological interactions on the one hand, and secondly, by groups, the physical, biogeochemical and analyzed for the community ecology of aquatic ecosystems.
The device has laboratories:

•     Marine microbial biodiversity and bioprospecting,
•     Diversity and ecology of marine phytoplankton,
•     Phytoplankton and productivity,
•     Zooplankton,
•     Ecology and biodiversity of marine invertebrates,
•     Taxonomy and systematics of marine sponges,
•     Molecular systematics of echinoderms,
•     Ichthyology and Estuarine Ecology,
•     Biodiversity and Macroecology,
•     Fisheries Ecology,
•     Fisheries ecology of crustaceans,
•     Dynamics of fish populations,
•     Genetics of marine organisms,
•     Marine Parasitology,
•     Aquatic Geochemistry,
•     Physical Oceanography and
•     Ocean Dynamics

Part of the research by investigators in this unit addresses affect the use and exploitation of marine resources and coastal areas, and others include the modeling of ocean currents from both Mexican coasts, and marine animals, their relationship to the distribution and migration. Also to be found medically useful drugs in our unit prospective research has drugs in bacteria and actin in marine snail toxins found.
Members of the unit to maintain active relationships with several research groups at home and abroad, and logistically, of segmented flow autoanalyzer equipment, the analysis of nutrients in marine or continental enables support of the academic unit projects at the Institute or another university authorities be performed.
The Academic Unit of Aquatic Ecology and Biodiversity has the capacity and resources to study the behavior of the main components of the aquatic environment related to human activities through counseling or specific studies carried out.