On March 19, a lecture by A.A.Lisovsky was held at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on the topic "Biodiversity databases in Russia and the problem of species distribution modeling in temperate climate". The main emphasis of the lecture was on the features of using information from public databases to analyze the geographical structure of biodiversity. The characteristic difficulties associated with attempts at ecological modeling of species in a limited area, especially those related to forest species inhabiting a temperate climate zone, were described, and ways to solve them were proposed.
The lecture took place as part of a long-term collaboration with the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution and the National Zoological Museum of China. Before the start of the lecture A.A. Lisovsky was awarded a diploma from the International Scholarship Initiative of the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI for visiting scientists. A collaborative study of the genetic and morphological structure of small mammal biodiversity in the Sichuan Basin is being carried out with support from PIFI.