The main goals are:

• Consolidate the physical-chemical characteristics of the soils that sustain xerophilous scrub in Baja California Sur;

• Scientifically sustain arguments on soil fragility of one of the ecosystems with the most anthropogenic pressure in the state;

• Develop a method that will allow us to produce and apply live biological films to retain soil particles.

The main goals are:

• Investigate if fatty acids are involved in metabolic connections at different hierarchical levels of organization in two critical areas of the northwestern part of Mexico;

• Explore if such connections are related with reproductive and food dynamics in different vertebrate species;

• Determine if the habitats used as key sites for breeding and/or reproduction are sites where there is a flux of fatty acids by the local trophic net.

The main goals are:

• Develop and propose a general method to establish a model based on agroecological indicators resulting from a modification performed to 32 indicators, adapting it to the conditions of Mexican dry land areas and to the preconception of environmental services;

• Create and apply agroecological indicators to evaluate agriculture and livestock sustainability;

• Value the establishments, farms and production units objectively and impartially to protect the available resources and foresee a safe and sustainable use of these resources in the benefit of today’s society and of future generations.

Main goals are:

• Confirm that native cyanobacteria, which comes from biological crusts collected in the same localities, act positively in functional recovery and soil quality in eroded forests of dry land areas.

Main goals are:

• Have an updated hydrometric and climatological data base;

• Run a monitoring piezometric network in different selected hydrological basins;

• Create a geographic information system of the selected hydrological basins.