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.
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.
We invite you to participate in the School for young researchers on October 7-8, 2026, at the N.K. Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
We invite you to participate in the International Scientific Conference "Adaptation Strategies for Coastal Areas in the Era of Climate Change," which will be held from August 26 to 28, 2026, in Sevastopol at the A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Southern Sea Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the International Scientific Conference "P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky and Modern Geography." The event is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of this outstanding scholar and public figure.