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Research Projects

Ongoing scientific investigations on sargassum at UASA · ICMYL · UNAM

  • Effect of Sargassum brown tides on seagrass meadows of the Mexican Caribbean.
  • Growth and physiology study of pelagic Sargassum species.
  • Early detection protocol for invasive alien species associated with sargassum (InvaSAR).
  • Relationship between white syndrome in corals and environmental degradation caused by decomposing sargassum.
  • Analysis of pelagic sargassum management on the northern coast of Quintana Roo.
  • Monitoring of sargassum biomass arriving to the Mexican Caribbean.
  • Bacterial community structure related to the increase in organic matter from sargassum (postdoc by Dr. Yessica Beltrán).
  • Taxonomic characterisation of the sargassum microbiome and associated bacterioplankton.