Molecular genetic analysis showed that the discovered population is most closely related to the European strains and differs significantly from the North American strains.

The best thing a person can do when they meet a leveret in nature is to pass by. Its mother will definitely return and feed her child. If the animal is injured, only animal rehabilitation specialists can help it.

Branchiopods (Cladocera) are one of the most important components of freshwater plankton and meiobenthos.

Thanks to monitoring, scientists can notice changes in time and predict possible risks to rodent populations.

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The workshop was held within the framework of the UN Subregional Programme “Participatory Conservation of Migratory Bird Habitats in Northeast Asia”.

The IEE RAS team sincerely congratulates Lyudmila Borisovna on her 70th birthday! We wish her good health, success in scientific and educational activities!

The IEE RAS team wholeheartedly congratulates Sergei Valerievich on his 55th birthday, wishes him good health, success in scientific and administrative activities, happiness and harmony!

Scientists take samples and examine the spores under a microscope, their color, shape and size, which is often key to accurate identification.

During the expedition, the staff collected soil samples in cracks on the slope of the southern exposure, where high humidity and abundant leaf litter create ideal conditions for soil fauna.

The monograph "Analytical Catalogue of Freshwater and Brackish-Water Mollusks of Russia and Adjacent Countries" is available for reading and downloading on the IEE RAS website.

Planktonic unicellular algae account for 50% of global carbon fixation.

One of the camera traps, installed in a typical leopard biotope - a broad-leaved forest of oak, hornbeam and other species with glades partially overgrown with rose hips, filmed Khosta at dusk, the usual time of predator activity.

Work on verifying habitat types in this region has been ongoing since 2023 and continues a series of studies previously conducted in the Lesser Khingan.

The task was not an easy one - to confirm the habitation (and, possibly, the origin) of a number of cryobiont (living in the cold) animal species, still considered Arctic, in the mountains of Southern Siberia.

Amphibious fishes are a facultative air-breathing fishes defined by their innate ability to spend part of their life out of water.

The technique opens up new possibilities for monitoring the effects of climate change in the circumpolar region, combining high accuracy with unprecedented speed of analysis.

The monograph “Marine and Brackish-Water Gastropods of Russia and Adjacent Countries: Illustrated Catalog” is available for reading and downloading on the IEE RAS website.