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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

Publication in Nature of lake microplasctic

Article in Nature co-authored by Beata Messyasz reveals that  lakes ecosystems play a key role in the plastic-pollution cycle. Read more here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06168-4

October 8th, 2023|Categories: Publications|

Publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution (https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14176) has published a paper by Katarzyna Malinowska, Katarzyna Markowska and Lechoslaw Kuczynski. The paper describes a new [...]

July 12th, 2023|Categories: Publications|

Article in Global Change Biology: masting breakdown and tree size

Climate change continues to reshape our natural ecosystems, and its impact on tree populations is a topic of great concern. Recent study (link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16730) led [...]

May 22nd, 2023|Categories: Publications|

Publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution

In a recent paper (link) Jon Parrett and co-authors from our Institute and Ghent University provided genomic evidence from mites with sexually selected weapon  that [...]

September 8th, 2022|Categories: Publications|

A new article in Animal Behaviour about the greater diversity of personalities among urban than rural shrews

Leszek Rychlik and co-authors (mainly from the University of Lisbon, Portugal) tested average differences in behaviour as well as the inter-individual variation in behaviour [...]

May 27th, 2022|Categories: Publications|

Discovery of basking in shrews – publication in Journal of Thermal Biology

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 [...]

May 23rd, 2022|Categories: Publications|
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