About us
In the Institute of Environmental Biology we are pursuing several lines of research concerning ecology of individuals, populations and ecosystems, animal behaviour, bioacoustics, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, as well as biodiversity, environmental conservation and monitoring. Our study systems include a wide variety of taxa, from bacteria to vertebrates, and we explore many regions in the world, including Arctica, Australia, Africa, North and South America. We offer several BSc and MSc courses, and provide numerous PhD opportunities.
News
XIII Scientific Session of the Institute of Environmental Biology
XIII Scientific Session of the Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology AMU 26 June 2025 - program (link)
Publication in Ecological Indicators
An article co-authored by Zbigniew Celka has been published in the journal Ecological Indicators, focusing on indicator species in three forest types of Poland (Tilio-Carpinetum, [...]
Virtual species
A paper presenting a mechanistic simulator of a virtual species has been published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14475 The article is part of [...]
MHC mediates production of antibodies against Borrelia outer surface proteins
In a study published in Molecular Ecology (http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17534), Joanna Różańska-Wróbel, Jacek Radwan and their collaborators demonstrate that Major Histocompatibility (MHC) alleles predict production of antibodies [...]
Cross-disciplinary Cryospheric Ecosystems Conference
Organized by Krzysztof Zawierucha from our institute and colleagues, will be held in Poznań, Poland, on the 1st-4th September 2025. Further information may be found in the conference [...]
Logged forests can still have ecological value – if not pushed too far
Researchers from around the world, including AMU biologist Jonathan Parrett, have analysed data from 127 studies to reveal ‘thresholds’ for when logged rainforests lose the [...]
30-th Anniversary Scientific Session
Institute of Environmental Biology was established on 1st June 1984, hence this years XII Session (program) was the opportunity to celebrate this! See photos [...]
Publication in Trends in Ecology and Evolution
A recent paper of Michał Bogdziewicz and collegues on mast seeding in perennial plants presents a model that integrates proximate factors (environmental variation, weather cues, [...]
Article in Ecology Letters
A new publication by Agnieszka Majer, Anna Skoracka and Lechosław Kuczyński (Population Ecology Lab) in cooperation with Jürg Spaak (Institute for Environmental Sciences, Landau, Germany) [...]
Article in Nature Plants
The new paper published in Nature Plants explores how seed production in perennial plants, like European beech (Fagus sylvatica), synchronizes across vast distances, affecting ecosystem [...]