Employees of the Laboratory of Population Ecology of the IEE RAS for the first time studied the patterns and causes of mortality in young yellow ground squirrels.

The results of the competitions of the Presidential Program of Research Projects 2023, as well as the competition for the extension of projects of scientific groups led by young scientists, supported in 2020, have been summed up.

On July 4, the solemn ceremony of presenting state awards of the Russian Federation was held at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Employees of the Laboratory of Soil Zoology and General Entomology IEE RAS conducted a meta-analysis of data from 86 field experiments that assessed the impact of climate change on the abundance and structure of soil invertebrate communities.

In May, four employees of IEE RAS (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution) took part in an expedition to Nepal.

Scientists from the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences detected a new fish species in the Rostov region in southern Russia.

The Russian Far East is a region of mixing of boreal and tropical faunas and a zone of endemism of microscopic crustaceans (Cladocera and Copepoda). The question is of interest: how does the formation of zooplankton communities occur in this border region?

The next (spring) stage of field studies of seasonal and daily dynamics of migrations of lampreys of the genus Eudontomyzon took place.

In the study of diatoms of the genus Meridion in samples from modern reservoirs on Unalashka Island, an employee of the IEE RAS Neplyukhina A.A. and an employee of MSU, DBS Chudaev D.A. discovered and described two species of this genus new to science - Meridion tenuipes and Meridion humerosum.

This article shows for the first time that the vocal repertoire of European red deer males is not limited to rutting roars emitted during the reproductive period.

April 3–6, 2023 the IEE RAS hosted a meeting of the Working Group on data processing to assess ecosystem flows of greenhouse gases in the framework of the most Important innovative project of national importance Scientific and Educational Center "Carbon in Ecosystems: Monitoring".

Scientists from the IEE RAS, SFU, Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, and the Privolzhskaya Lesostep Nature Reserve investigated the role of the tailless amphibian Pallas' spadefoot in the transfer of organic matter from small water bodies to land.

Cytogenetics belongs to the field of genetics, to the emergence and rapid spread of which the Russian school of chromosome researchers made a special contribution.

Russian biologists, together with foreign colleagues, have deciphered the genome of microscopic daphnia crustaceans living on the Arabian Peninsula.

The published study is the first deep generalization on the most dangerous invasive species in Russia, performed using ecological modeling methods and geoinformation technologies, which has no analogues both in Russia and abroad.

Using the Paleoenvironmental Distribution Modeling (SDM) method, we reconstructed the range history of the largest member of the Cricetinae subfamily, the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus).

At the beginning of this year, the peer-reviewed scientific journal Animals published an article “Is the Lesser Khingan suitable for the restoration of the Amur tiger group? Perspectives in terms of habitats and food supply”.

The black soldier fly Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) is widely used in the modern world for the production of a quality food product containing from 30% to 47% protein and 10–35% fat, which is used both in raising farm animals and in food production for humans.