Leszek Rychlik and co-authors from Portugal assessed the use of an external heat source (basking) in the thermoregulatory strategies of three shrew species. Shrews were tested in a terrarium where they had access to a heat rock which could be turned off (cold) or on (heated). In accordance with authors' predictions, Crocidura russula (the [...]
High polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes that encode proteins crucial for adaptive immunity of vertebrates have been long hypothesized to be maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection resulting from adaptation of parasites to common MHC types, but supporting evidence is scarce. In our new paper in Molecular Ecology (Migalska et al. 2022, http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16486) we find [...]
In the article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0212 dr Magdalena Herdegen-Radwan (Department of Behavioural Ecology) presents empirical suport for the role of associative learning in originating sexual preferences. Sexual preferences of guppy females changed following food-conditoning on different colours, supporting the emergence of an association between the colour of the stimulus [...]
We are thrilled to announce that dr Michal Bogdziewicz from our institute has been awarted prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant for the project “ForestFuture: Climate change impacts on trees reproduction and forecasts of forest recruitment change”
In this article, we explain how the degree of environmental heterogeneity may influence pests’ niche breadth evolution, which may in turn affect the ability of pests to persist in agricultural systems. The study was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, research projects no. 2016/21/B/NZ8/00786 and 2017/27/N/NZ8/00305. Skoracka A., Laska A., Radwan J., Konczal. M., Lewandowski [...]
On December 21, 2021, the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) selected the winners of the recruitment to the 4th edition of the Bekker NAWA Program. As part of this flagship NAWA program, during their stays - lasting from 3 to 24 months - scholarship holders will be able to carry out scientific projects or [...]
This time Leszek Rychlik and co-authors from Portugal (University of Lisbon) published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology the paper on social thermoregulation in Crocidura russula. They analyzed the behavior and physiology of shrew groups from winter (acclimated to 14 °C) and summer (acclimated to 24 °C). All group mates were frequently found huddling in the [...]
Dr Michał Bogdziewicz from our Institute have been elected a member of prestigious Young Scientist Academy PAS. More on his work here: https://michalbogdziewicz.wordpress.com/
On November 15, 2021, the Competition Jury of Scholarships of the Foundation of Adam Mickiewicz University of in Poznań selected the winners of this year's edition of the scholarship program for AMU doctoral students. Among the 10 scholarship holders is Michał Brzozowski, a doctoral student representing the Department of Hydrobiology and the Institute of Environmental [...]
The research conducted by researchers and students from Population Ecology Lab in cooperation with researchers from Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, University of Lisbon, and Western Illinois University has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. By combining laboratory experiments and field surveys, they demonstrated the importance of sink habitats for [...]
