The expedition conducted visual counts of seals along the entire shoreline of Lake Baikal and assessed the distribution of the animals in areas with varying levels of anthropogenic pressure.
Over the course of 3 weeks, a team of biologists deployed 50 cameras using a specially developed methodology, detailed in the CAMMON Photo Monitoring Program, published by the Central Forest Reserve.
De Winton noted its unusual morphological features when describing the species: "The skull is unusually square and short, and unlike any other gerbil known to me."
This publication is recommended for geographers, biologists, ecologists, and a wide range of readers interested in Russia's natural environment, its biodiversity, and conservation prospects.
Using modern molecular genetic methods, specialists analyzed the samples and obtained the following result: all the animals studied are Caspian gray voles.
In good weather, beavers can be active for ten hours or more, even during the day. On rainy days, they spend more time on land, and in hot weather, they spend more time in the water.
The memory of the Great Patriotic War is a key point of Russian historical memory, uniting our society and developing spiritual values that enable us to resist Nazism.
The event marked an important milestone in the development of scientific and educational cooperation and the popularization of environmental topics among students and faculty in the region.
Dear colleagues, we congratulate you on the Ecologists’ Day - your professional holiday celebrated in Russia on the same day as the World Environment Day.
Saint Petersburg State University, the Soil Science Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Subcommission of the Interregional Public Organization "Soil Organic Matter," the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Society, and the CIS Regional Branch of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) invite you to participate in the VIII International Scientific Conference "Humic Substances in the Biosphere," to be held in Saint Petersburg from October 20 to 22, 2026.
From September 24-27, 2026, the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host a school for young scientists, "Objects and Methods of Developmental Biology: Genomic, Molecular, and Morphogenetic Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration." The school is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the eminent embryologist D.P. Filatov (1876-1943).
On March 30-31, 2027, the 3rd All-Russian Scientific Conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Kamchatka Branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KamchatNIRO), will be held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 11:00, Council Meeting 24.1.109.02 will be held in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33). Nikolai Vladimirovich Bardukov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, will defend his dissertation "Formation of the Modern Range of the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)."
On July 2, 2026, at 11:00, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held in the Large Conference Hall to discuss the pre-defense of Polina Yuryevna Dgebuadze's dissertation, "Symbiosis of Eulimidae Gastropods and Echinoderms: Morphological and Ecological Adaptations," submitted for the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences in the specialty 1.5.16. Hydrobiology.