The species diversity of fish in continental reservoirs and watercourses is significantly underestimated. The species richness of fish in Russian water bodies is also underestimated.
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Three IEE RAS projects will receive support from the Russian Science Foundation under the competition “Conducting fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by individual scientific groups.”
28
March
2024
The public established the Сaspian Seal Day
The Marine Mammal Council, the Nature Reserves EcoCenter, and the Clean Seas International Environmental Fund jointly decided to establish Caspian Seal Day.
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.
27
March
2024
Helminths of three species of White sea fish
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.
27
March
2024
Scientific and educational film “Caspian seal”
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.
26
March
2024
China and Russia create a research laboratory for the conservation and restoration of the Amur tiger population
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.
25
March
2024
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.
21
March
2024
Application of the principles of biological evolution to building effective mathematical methods for global optimization
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.
18
March
2024
Data on the occurence of sharks in the russian far eastern waters over the last four and over decades was analyzed
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.
15
March
2024
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.
13
March
2024
Rethinking the role of long-term transitions in modeling population dynamics and predicting species extinction
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.