During the last decade, non-native armoured catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) have successfully occupied many freshwater ecosystems in Vietnam.
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April
2025
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08
April
2025
Why do cyanobacteria affect the species structure of zooplankton communities negatively?
Zooplankton is a key component of the food web in freshwater bodies. Most zooplankton are filter feeders.
07
April
2025
"You can cut down a cedar and not kill a single tiger, and they will die out on their own..."
Currently, there are 750 Amur tigers in the Russian Far East, Academician of the RAS Vyacheslav Rozhnov, Chief Researcher of the IEE RAS, and member of the VOOP Scientific Council, told.
07
April
2025
Scientists have shed light on the evolutionary history of a large group of Old World freshwater fish
An international team of scientists has reconstructed the evolutionary history of one of the most diversified families of freshwater fish (Nemacheildae – stone loaches), common in Eurasia and Africa.
The Russian Science Foundation has announced the results of the competition for projects of fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by individual scientific groups.
The children learned about the work of scientists, visited a vivarium with laboratory rodents, and visited a historical ecology laboratory.
The expedition of scientists from the IEE RAS to study Baikal seals took place at the largest summer rookeries, the shores of the Ushkany Islands archipelago in the middle part of Lake Baikal, and set several tasks at once.
The book is intended for anyone interested in the history of science and environmental protection in Central Asia and the USSR.
26
March
2025
Widespread Ranavirus Discovered in Green Frogs in Russia
Ranaviruses are capable of causing mass mortality of amphibians and are considered one of the main threats to amphibian biodiversity worldwide.
25
March
2025
Why are insects disappearing from Earth and what threat does this pose to the animal world?
It would seem that fewer mosquitoes and flies are only a plus. But in fact, this is a serious threat to ecosystems and even to you and me.
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March
2025
Combination of morphological and genetic approaches helped find a new species of crustacean in Siberia
Researchers have described a new species of copepod crustaceans from the order Cyclopoida (Copepoda). The species has a wide range in Central Siberia.
Five organizations have signed an agreement to work together to protect and study the Chukchi-California gray whales.
The Flint Eurasian Crane Working Group Newsletter is an annual publication that publishes information on the current state of crane populations.
The new issue of the journal "Problems of Ichthyology" is available for reading and downloading (Vol. 64, No. 6, 2024).
Based on the conducted analysis of the morphology and molecular analysis, researchers from the IEE RAS proposed a new classification of the genus Lipoptena Nitzsch, 1818.
05
March
2025
How the abundance and distribution of three predatory fish species in the northwest Pacific have changed over 50 years
The aim of the study was to determine how the distribution boundaries and abundance of three species of predatory fish in this area changed over time.
During ichthyological research ichthyologists were quite surprised by some strange habits of Mongolian fish, which is of course connected with the specific conditions of the reservoirs they inhabit.
26
February
2025
Unique fish studied in the waters of the underwater Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain (northwestern Pacific)
Scientists have obtained the first data on the spatial distribution, size composition, age, sex structure, growth and maturation of a poorly studied deep-sea benthopelagic fish species – Coelorinchus gilberti.