The Marine Mammal Council, the Nature Reserves EcoCenter, and the Clean Seas International Environmental Fund jointly decided to establish Caspian Seal Day.
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Brandt's vole is a small herbivorous rodent that inhabits steppe and mountainous regions (up to 2900 m above sea level) of Mongolia, southeastern China and Transbaikalia in Russia.
The main emphasis of the lecture was on the features of using information from public databases to analyze the geographical structure of biodiversity.
The conference was held in Moscow from March 19 to 21, 2024. One of the main topics of the conference was the study and conservation of the polar bear and other Arctic mammals.
Parasitic organisms are an integral component of natural ecosystems. The composition of the parasitic fauna reflects the ecological connections of the hosts, the biogeographical features of the region.
The Caspian Sea is the largest closed lake on earth, stretching across two parts of the world - Asia and Europe. It is distinguished by a unique ecosystem that is home to more than 400 endemic species unique to this region.
In China, a joint Chinese-Russian scientific laboratory was opened in Heilongjiang province to preserve and restore the Amur tiger population.
Within the framework of cooperation between the IEE RAS and NSPU, student Tyutyaeva P.N. completed a scientific internship at the Laboratory of Ecology of Aquatic Communities and Invasions.
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Scientists of IEE RAS spoke about who and why assigns unusual nicknames to marine inhabitants
About 400 bowhead and 400 gray whales live in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk. And almost each of them has their own name or funny nickname.
Study tested the hypotheses that the discomfort calls of domestic cat kittens vary between individuals, contain sex cues, and may provide information to the mother about the physical health.
Сomputational algorithms for global stochastic optimization and optimal control are widely used in the literature to solve various scientific and applied problems, including ecology and epidemiology.
Employees of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS and the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS analyzed long-term data for the last 40-plus years.
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Hybridisation between chromosomal races of shrews does not lead to emergence of sterile males
One of the model species for studying microevolutionary issues is a small insectivorous mammal - the common shrew, which lives in Northern Eurasia from the British Isles to Yakutia.
Increasing population densities of ecologically and commercially important animal species is one of the main objectives of ecosystem management.
The saiga antelope is a representative of the complex of large herbivorous mammals of the Pleistocene tundra-steppe ecosystem, and at the moment it is the only antelope that has survived in Europe.
Predicting extinctions of populations of individual species and sudden changes in the functioning of an ecosystem has long been the focus of attention of ecologists and ecosystem management specialists.
The introduction of animals or plants into new geographic regions has unpredictable parasitological consequences, and can lead to an increase or decrease in parasitic load on local species, or have a relatively neutral status.
Regardless of weight categories, which range from hundreds of grams to hundreds of kilograms, carnivorous mammals remain among the most successful carnivores on our planet.