The staff of the IEE RAS described a new stygobiont species, which inhabits hypogeum biotopes and underground waters of the Abin River basin, located in the southwestern foothills of the Caucasus Range.
On coral reefs, where a huge number of animal species live and competition for resources is high, many organisms develop complex adaptations to protect themselves from predators.
The book presents comprehensive information about the history, work and everyday life of the oldest Hydrobiological Station in Russia and the world, founded on Lake Glubokoe in Moscow Province.
Scientists from Lomonosov Moscow University, IEE RAS and ZI of the RAS studied the acoustic structure of alarm calls in a highly social rodent species, the Harting's vole (Microtus hartingi).
The Scythian archaeological culture was widespread in the Northern Black Sea region and the Ciscaucasia and was a component of the Scythian-Siberian community of horse nomadic cattle breeders.
The Russian Science Foundation has summed up the results of the priority area of activity "Conducting fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by small individual scientific groups".
The results of the Russian project to restore the Amur tiger population by raising orphaned tiger cubs forcibly removed from the wild open up opportunities for the restoration of tigers throughout Asia.
The application of documents for post-graduate studies in A.N.Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS in 2020 will take place from 1st to 25th of September. The entrance exams will be held from 1 to 23 October. The results of postgraduate enrollment will be declared from November 1, 2020.
Detailed information can be found on the Institute's website http://sev-in.ru/ru/postupausim
First Lecture of Webinar Series
"Forgetting How to Tend the Soil”
by Prof. Rattan Lal, this year’s World Food Prize Awardee
Date: 2nd October 2020
Time: 1:00 PM GMT
About the Speaker
Prof. Rattan Lal is a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Centre at The Ohio State University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University Iceland, and holds a Chair of Soil Science and Goodwill Ambassador position with Inter-American Institute of Cooperation in Agriculture, San Jose, Costa Rica. He was President of the Soil Science Society of America (2006-2008), and the International Union of Soil Sciences (2017-2018). He researches soil carbon sequestration for food and climate security, conservation agriculture, and soil health. He has authored 955 journal articles, mentored 360 researchers, h-index of 150 and 101,811 citations. He is laureate of the 2018 GCHERA World Agriculture Prize, 2018 Glinka World Soil Prize, 2019 Japan Prize, 2019 U.S. Awasthi IFFCO Award, 2020 IICA Chair in Soil Science and Goodwill Ambassador, and the 2020 World Food Prize.
(Image credit: Kenneth D. Chamberlain, Photographer, The Ohio State University, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences)
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