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
Michał Bogdziewicz awarded prestigious National Science Prize 2022
Michał Bogdziewicz awarded prestigious National Science Prize 2022! Congratulations
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 [...]
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 [...]
Xth Scientific Secession of IES
On Friday 20th May research groups presented their best research during Xth Scientific Secession of IES, and PhD students presented their posters {link to program}
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 [...]
Negative frequency-dependent selection on MHC uncovered by an emergent parasite
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 [...]
New publication on the role of associative learning in originating sexual preferences
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 [...]
ERC starting grant for Michal Bogdziewicz!
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 [...]
New publication: How environmental heterogeneity influences niche breadth
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 [...]
Scholarship of the Bekker NAWA Program for Michał Brzozowski
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 [...]