The National Institute of Amazonian Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia or INPA) is a public educational and

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headquartered in

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. It was founded in 1952, with the purpose of furthering scientific knowledge of the Brazilian Amazon Region. Most of INPA's research focuses on tropical forest management,

ecology Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...

molecular ecology Molecular ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that is concerned with applying Molecular genetics, molecular genetic techniques to ecological questions (e.g., population structure, phylogeography, conservation, speciation, hybridization, biodive ...

zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

tropical agriculture Worldwide more human beings gain their livelihood from agriculture than any other endeavor; the majority are self-employed subsistence farmers living in the tropics. While growing food for local consumption is the core of tropical agriculture, ...

and tropical

pisciculture Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial animal husbandry, breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial pen (enclosure), enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a particular type of aquaculture, which is the controlled ...

. The institution also maintains important

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, and

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research collections. It also publishes the scientific journa
''Acta Amazônica''

Graduate programs

Graduate programs offered by INPA: * Agriculture in the Humid Tropics (Masters and Doctorate) * Botany (Masters and Doctorate) * Ecology (Masters and Doctorate) * Entomology (Masters and Doctorate) * Tropical Forestry (Masters and Doctorate) * Climate and Environmental Sciences (Masters and Doctorate) * Genetics, Conservation and Evolutionary Biology (Masters and Doctorate) * Freshwater Biology and Inland Fisheries (Masters and Doctorate) * Aquaculture (Masters) * Management of Protected Areas in the Amazon (Professional Masters)

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INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Amazonas (Brazilian state) Amazon basin Government-owned companies of Brazil Research institutes in Brazil Postgraduate schools in Brazil Universities and colleges in Amazonas (Brazilian state) {{sci-org-stub

Graduate programs

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