In the top journal Biological Reviews, Rafał Zwolak (Department of Systematic Zoology) published a paper on the relationships between plants and animals. One of the most fundamental differences between plants and animals is the ability to move. Typically, animals move plenty, whereas plants are literally rooted in place and travel only at the stage of [...]
A paper by Leszek Rychlik (Department of Systematic Zoology) and collaborators (from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) appeared in the Journal of Zoology. The authors, for the first time, analysed arboreal locomotion in acacia rats (Thallomys paedulcus) and found that the rodents were able to competently move on relatively narrow [...]
In the latest issue of Nature, section ‘News’, Emma Young discusses the recent publication by Lázaro et al. (2017) concerning the Dehenl phenomenon in the common shrew (Sorex araneus). On this occasion the author invokes the opinions and findings of Leszek Rychlik, PhD student Paweł Kardynia (Department of Systematic Zoology) and co-authors, Jan J. R. [...]
25.10.2017 SEMINARS ON EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY & BEHAVIOUR: 3rd Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special ornithological lecture by awarded Michal Šulc (Czech Academy of Sciences) Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula, 12:15
In the top-journal Frontiers in Zoology, Krzysztof Kowalski, Leszek Rychlik (Department of Systematic Zoology), and co-authors from the Institute of Experimental Biology, Paweł Marciniak and Grzegorz Rosiński (Department of Animal Physiology and Development) published a paper in which they indicate that venom of the Eurasian water shrew Neomys fodiens (Soricidae) displays strong paralytic (neuro- and [...]
On the occasion of the Inauguration of the academic year 2017/2018, agraduate of our Institute, and now a PhD student in the Department of Hydrobiology, Michał Brzozowski, was honored with the Medal of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań for outstanding achievements in education and distinctive participation in University life. Congratulations to the winner! [...]
The results of study done by Paweł Szymański, Krzysztof Deoniziak, Katarzyna Łosak and Tomasz Osiejuk from Department of Behavioural Ecology indicate how renewable energy production, namely the sound of wind turbines, affect to vocal communication of Skylarks. The rapid change in song parameters may indicate a significant of the acoustic environment as a result [...]
The results of study done by numerous team of scientists led by Michał Bogdziewicz (Department of Systematic Zoology, AMU), with especially significant contribution from Jakub Szymkowiak (Population Ecology Lab, AMU), Mario Pesendorfer (Cornell Univ.), Idalia Kasprzyk (Uniwersytet Rzeszowski) and Łukasz Grewling (Laboratory of Aeropalynology, AMU). Masting or mast seeding is a highly variable and synchronized [...]
A PhD student of our Institute, Alicja Laska (Population Ecology Lab), published new research as a first author in Experimental and Applied Acarology. The article is on seasonal changes in morphology in two species of grass-feeding eriophyoid mites. Full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10493-017-0159-1
Dr. Lech Kaczmarek from the AMU Ecological Station in Jeziory was in a team of scientists from the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, who was granted the Prime Minister Award in the category of scientific and technical achievement for the publication "The Concept of Directions of Spatial Development of the Metropolis of Poznań". We congratulate the [...]
