The event was attended by eight interns (graduate students and staff) from universities, research institutes and fisheries institutions of Borok, St. Petersburg, Syktyvkar, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.
Global warming increases the aggressiveness of soil fungal pathogens, disrupts the structure of local microbiota, and reduces the suppressive capacity of agroecosystems.
Despite the fact that grooming has been studied for many decades, the extent to which its structure depends on the animal's circumstances has remained unclear.
The results are important for predicting ecosystem resilience, preserving biodiversity, and developing ecologically sound approaches to managing natural and agricultural areas.
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.
The Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) are accepting applications for the second joint competition of international scientific projects to conduct fundamental and exploratory scientific research by international research teams.
The Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia has launched an information digest, “Educational Harbor.” It briefly covers the main events in science and higher education in six CIS countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 14:00 in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Leninsky Prospekt, 33) a meeting of the council 24.1.109.03 will be held, at which the dissertation for the academic degree of candidate of biological sciences Ilya Nikolaevich Tsvetkov will be defended on the topic: "Helminth fauna of the American mink, European polecat, pine marten, common otter of the Caspian-Baltic watershed within the boundaries of the Tver and Pskov regions".
The Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences is holding a conference with international participation “Mammals in a Changing World: Current Problems of Theriology” (XII Congress of the Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences) on February 2–6, 2026, in Moscow, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS).
On Wednesday, April 9 at 14:00 in the large hall of the IEE RAS (Leninsky Prospekt, 33) an interlaboratory colloquium will be held dedicated to the presentation of the candidate's dissertation of Nikita Aleksandrovich Martynenko (Laboratory of Soil Zoology and General Entomology).