From the 6th to 21st of February 2014, the National Institute of Biology hosted Brazilian researchers from the Brazilian National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA).

INPA is the main institution in the Amazon Basin, which is responsible for a wide range of researches and actions that lead to sustainable development of one of the largest and highly vulnerable ecosystems on the planet. Global climate changes are associated with warming of waters, changing hydrology, expansion of hypoxic and anoxic zones, water acidification and increased UV radiation. All these changes are setting new conditions for fish across the globe.

The visit was a part of bilateral cooperation, where we studied the different responses of aquatic organisms to climate changes in tropical and temperate zones. During the visit we performed, together with prof. dr. Adalberto Val and his colleagues, another of experiments in which we determined the influence of various disturbances in the ecosystem (temperature, oxygen) on physiological and biochemical processes of fish in tropical and temperate zones.