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.
Dear colleagues, we congratulate you on the Ecologists’ Day - your professional holiday celebrated in Russia on the same day as the World Environment Day.
Researchers at the Population Ecology Laboratory of the IEE RAS have described for the first time the daily activity of the yellow ground squirrel during the pre-hibernation period in a natural population.
The exhibition will feature real biological objects. Organizers warn: particularly sensitive viewers, as well as those with a pronounced phobia of worms and insects, may want to refrain.
Morphological and molecular variation in Ornithomya avicularia was researched using specimens from seven populations spanning Europe, Western Siberia, and the Russian Far East.
Red deer are extremely shy and difficult to see, so male calls were recorded using automatic sound traps set in the habitats of three different populations.
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).