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
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 [...]
A next paper on Crocidura shrews in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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. [...]
Dr Michał Bogdziewicz have been elected a member of Young Scientist Academy PAS
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/
Scholarships of the Foundation of Adam Mickiewicz University of in Poznań for Michał Brzozowski
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 [...]
Article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes source-sink dynamics as a strategy to cope with temporally fluctuating environment
The research conducted by researchers and students from Population Ecology Lab in cooperation with researchers from Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, University of [...]
Article in the International Journal of Molecular Science on whether brain size influences the level of neurogenesis in adult shrews
Leszek Rychlik (Department of Systematic Zoology) and co-authors (mainly from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS in Warsaw) published, in the International Journal of [...]