In Lake Glukhoe, scientists discovered three forms of southern Dolly Varden trout, which differ radically from each other in size and feeding method.
12
September
2025
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11
September
2025
Specific electrical activity of river lamprey discovered
All animal organisms generate electric currents that accompany both muscle contraction and the functioning of the nervous system.
09
September
2025
Alien species of crustaceans discovered in Lake Titicaca
Molecular genetic analysis showed that the discovered population is most closely related to the European strains and differs significantly from the North American strains.
05
September
2025
How to behave when encountering hares in the green areas of Moscow
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.
03
September
2025
IEE RAS postgraduate students describe a new species of cladocerans from the northern Russian Far East
Branchiopods (Cladocera) are one of the most important components of freshwater plankton and meiobenthos.
01
September
2025
How the health of mouse-like rodents is assessed in Losiny Ostrov
Thanks to monitoring, scientists can notice changes in time and predict possible risks to rodent populations.
28
August
2025
The Public Council under the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection is holding a quiz called “Green Marathon”
Want to test your knowledge of the world around us, nature and ecology? Try answering the questions of the online quiz "Green Marathon"!
The workshop was held within the framework of the UN Subregional Programme “Participatory Conservation of Migratory Bird Habitats in Northeast Asia”.
26
August
2025
Happy birthday to Lyudmila Borisovna Volkova!
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!
25
August
2025
Losiny Ostrov National Park under the microscope: scientists monitor the state of mushroom populations
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.
20
August
2025
The monograph "Analytical catalog of freshwater and brackish-water mollusks of Russia and adjacent countries" is available for download
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.
20
August
2025
The role of the diurnal illumination cycle in the growth strategy of phytoplankton was assessed
Planktonic unicellular algae account for 50% of global carbon fixation.
19
August
2025
Released female Persian leopard successfully adapted to life in the wild of the Caucasus
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.
18
August
2025
To the south of Siberia - in search of arctic species
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.