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Coari Regional Center

The Coari Regional Center was created in 2009 with the approval of the MCT / CNPq / PPBio No. 60/2009 publication with the project "The Middle Solimões Region Biological Diversity: Inventories, Professional Collections and Training as subsidies for the Conservation of the Amazon. ".
 
The Regional Center has as its executing agency the Federal University of Amazonas - Institute for Health and Biotechnology Coari, UFAM ISB / Coari and partners are the National Institute of Amazonian Research - INPA, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Amazon Technology - Campus Coari - IFAM / Coari, USP-Ribeirão Preto. future partnerships should be established with the State University of Amazonas - UEA, the State Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development - SDS and Secretary of the Coari environment. It also has 07 fellows PIBIC CNPq / FAPEAM and 25 students of undergraduate volunteers.
 
Since its creation three reference collections have been created: entomofauna, Ichthyofauna and a Tissue Bank for genetic studies. The core has been established for the course Arachnology: Systematics, collection, retention and data management and recently the First Week of the Middle Solimões Biodiversity.
 
 
 
 
The core already has a search module installed, which are being conducted fish surveys, shrimps, insects (Odonata), spiders, palm trees, woody plants and aquatic microorganisms (bacterioplankton, phytoplankton and zooplankton), and to evaluate plants with the potential to bioprospeção and verify the activity of the active principles and carry methodological procedures for obtaining extracts of botanical species identified.
 
To the physical environment is being made topographic and hydrographic mapping, installation of piezometers and rain gauge, physical characterization and soil chemistry - Particle size, humidity, soil profile, macronutrients (C, H, O, N, P, K, Mg, S) and micronutrients (Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn, Cl, B, Mo) and water - pH, Conductivity, Temperature, Turbidity, Macro and Micronutrients and heavy metals.
 
 
The goals for the next five years include: To train human resources and support to implement and develop regional biological collections and installation of a water module.
 
 
Contact:
 
Fernando P. Mendonça 
Universidade Federal do Amazonas/COARI