In the Fayum oasis (Egypt), employees of the IEE RAS, together with archaeologists and historians from the Center for Egyptological Research of the RAS, studied the unique joint burial of humans and dogs.
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06
May
2024
They have awoken! Return of speckled ground squirrels to the homeland in the Tambov region
In 2023, employees of the Laboratory of Population Ecology, together with the Voroninsky Nature Reserve, began a project to restore the population of the speckled ground squirrel.
06
May
2024
IEE RAS staff entered the world ranking of the best scientists in the field of ecology and evolution
Three scientists from Russia were included in the ranking of the best scientists in the field of ecology and evolution. Two out of three are employees of the IEE RAS.
Employees of the Saratov branch of the IEE RAS Olga and Mikhail Oparin told Rossiyskaya Gazeta journalists how the fauna is changing and why this is connected to more than global warming.
03
May
2024
New results of tracking caucasian leopards released under the reintroduction program in the Central Caucasus
The implementation of the program for the restoration of leopards in the Central Caucasus began with the release of the first animals in the territory of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in 2018.
30
April
2024
Documentary "Geese - a national treasure of Japan"
With the participation of employees of the IEE RAS, a new film was made about the wintering of geese in Japan.
27
April
2024
Employees of IEE RAS were included in the jury of the All-russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in biology
The final stage of the All-Russian Biology Olympiad for schoolchildren is taking place in the Sirius Federal Territory.
27
April
2024
The Theriological society of RAS was named after its founder – academician V.E. Sokolov
The Institute congratulates the Theriological Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences on this significant event - naming it after Academician V.E. Sokolov.
25
April
2024
Isotope tag shows who feeds on ticks
Ixodid ticks (Ixodidae) are well-known blood-sucking parasites that transmit dangerous diseases, including tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease.
April 23, 2024 marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scientist, world-famous theorist of evolutionary doctrine of the 20th century - Ivan Ivanovich Shmalhausen.
As a result of the studies carried out in 2020-2021 research has provided unique data that allows us to expand our knowledge about the scale and routes of movement of flying mammals - chiropterans.
11
April
2024
Social vole – a secret inhabitant of steppe biotopes
The social vole is a small herbivorous rodent that inhabits open plains and mountainous steppe regions, as well as semi-deserts of Syria, Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and China.
The species diversity of fish in continental reservoirs and watercourses is significantly underestimated. The species richness of fish in Russian water bodies is also underestimated.
Three IEE RAS projects will receive support from the Russian Science Foundation under the competition “Conducting fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by individual scientific groups.”
28
March
2024
The public established the Сaspian Seal Day
The Marine Mammal Council, the Nature Reserves EcoCenter, and the Clean Seas International Environmental Fund jointly decided to establish Caspian Seal Day.
Brandt's vole is a small herbivorous rodent that inhabits steppe and mountainous regions (up to 2900 m above sea level) of Mongolia, southeastern China and Transbaikalia in Russia.
The main emphasis of the lecture was on the features of using information from public databases to analyze the geographical structure of biodiversity.
The conference was held in Moscow from March 19 to 21, 2024. One of the main topics of the conference was the study and conservation of the polar bear and other Arctic mammals.