The Postgraduate Program in Biodiversity and Conservation has two concentration areas (I and II), with the following lines of research by its professors:
(I) Ecology, conservation, and use of biodiversity in terrestrial environments
1. Functional ecology of plants;
2. Biogeography, ecology and conservation of birds;
3. Molecular prospecting of natural products;
4. Environmental remediation strategies;
5. Bioclimatology;
6. Taxonomy of eudicots;
7. Ecology of bees and pollination;
8. Ecology of amphibians and reptiles.
(II) Ecology, conservation, and use of biodiversity in aquatic environments
1. Genetics of conservation and population of aquatic organisms;
2. Climate change and monitoring of aquatic organisms;
3. Metagenomics, metabarcoding and transcriptome;
4. Biotechnology applied to fish reproduction and conservation;
5. Ecology and dynamics of fish and crustacean populations;
6. Reproductive biology of aquatic animals and geometric morphometrics;
7. Enzymology applied to environmental remediation.