Deep-sea skates of the family Arhynchobatidae play an important role in deep-sea communities of the North Pacific Ocean. Many of these species are predatory.
May 21, 2024 at the IEE RAS an extended meeting of the Scientific Council of the RAS on problems of ecology of biological systems and the Scientific Council of the SBRAS on the problems of Lake Baikal was held.
Employees of the Laboratory of Ecology of Aquatic Communities and Invasions of the IEE RAS published four articles in the journal "Zootaxa" devoted to the systematics and faunistics of cladoceran crustaceans.
Last week in Beijing, in connection with the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Russian-Chinese diplomatic relations, an event was held aimed at strengthening scientific and cultural cooperation between the two countries.
Academician of the RAS V.V. Rozhnov took part in the 2024 International Congress on the system of environmental safety for all people living along the Belt and Road which took place in Shennongjia National Park in Hubei Province.
Tourist programs in Russian nature reserves and national parks were presented as part of the project “The Word about the Russian Heart”, which opened in Beijing on June 12, Russia Day.
Belarus called on UNESCO to prevent the politicization of the problem around the Polish border in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. This was stated by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic Sergei Maslyak.
An employee of the Laboratory of Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plant Regions and Bioindication of the IEE RAS published an article in the journal Fish and Fisheries as part of an international team from Russia, Hungary and Brazil.
Enchytraeids are small relatives of earthworms that can be found in moderately moist soils around the world. These are one of the most important organisms in the soil that decompose plant litter.
The opening speech was made by the Director of the IEE RAS, DBS, Professor S.V. Naidenko. V.V. Rozhnov, Academician of the RAS, DBS, Head of the Laboratory, also spoke at the beginning of the session.
Scientists from the IEE RAS analyzed time series containing data from long-term observations of a number of small mammals in the vicinity of the Mirnoye station of the Institute.
The Indo-Burma hotspot of freshwater biodiversity is one of the richest in the world, but the animals and plants that inhabit it face a serious problem of rapid degradation and habitat destruction.
Yes and no, answer the scientists from the IEE RAS. The Laboratory of Population Ecology studied personality in two species of gerbils: the solitary midday gerbil and the social Mongolian gerbil.
The Fourth All-Russian Conference with international participation “Current problems in the study of crustaceans” was successfully held on the basis of the IBVV RAS in the village Bohrok.
Employees of the IEE RAS together with colleagues were the first to study the reproductive cycle of female yellow ground squirrels in the wild using cytological methods, hormonal analysis and telemetry.
In Russia, the study of bloodsucking flies, which have important veterinary importance as carriers of various diseases, as well as ticks of the Epidermoptidae family and bird lice, continues.
April 23 marked the anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest biologists of the XX century, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, zoologist-evolutionist and experimental biologist - academician I.I. Shmalhausen.
The conference is being organized by the Russian National Committee for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development/Interdepartmental National Oceanographic Commission of the Russian Federation (INOC) in collaboration with the Institute for Integrated Studies of National Marine Policy of the Russian Technical University MIREA and the Museum-Reserve "Museum of the World Ocean," with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the Russian Ministry of Culture. The conference will be one of the official events of the UN Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation announces the XII All-Russian Prize "For Loyalty to Science," one of the key events of the Decade of Science and Technology declared by the President of the Russian Federation.
Saint Petersburg State University, the Soil Science Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Subcommission of the Interregional Public Organization "Soil Organic Matter," the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Society, and the CIS Regional Branch of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) invite you to participate in the VIII International Scientific Conference "Humic Substances in the Biosphere," to be held in Saint Petersburg from October 20 to 22, 2026.
From September 24-27, 2026, the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host a school for young scientists, "Objects and Methods of Developmental Biology: Genomic, Molecular, and Morphogenetic Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration." The school is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the eminent embryologist D.P. Filatov (1876-1943).
On March 30-31, 2027, the 3rd All-Russian Scientific Conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Kamchatka Branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KamchatNIRO), will be held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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)."