On November 1, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the competition participants listened to a lecture titled “Report from the shore of a reservoir: an overview of the customs and habits of aquatic inhabitants,” prepared by Anna Nikolaevna Neretina, a research fellow at the Laboratory of Ecology of Aquatic Communities and Invasions.
At the lecture, the audience was introduced to the heroes and villains of continental water bodies, and the features of their biology and role in communities were described.
Participants who attended the lecture in person had the opportunity to hold a homemade plankton net with a handle made of bamboo, and also learned how to use images of water fleas in the interior design of a modern research laboratory.
