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
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 [...]
Publication in Toxins on the evolution and ecological functions of venomousness in insectivorous mammals
Leszek Rychlik (Department of Systematic Zoology) and Krzysztof Kowalski (currently the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) published a review in the journal Toxins (Q1 in [...]
The publication in Nature shows the limited potential for plant migration to the north
The research conducted by a team of 18 researchers from 13 European institutions, including Dr. Przemysław Kurek from our Institute, aimed to identify the network [...]
The Economist mention our research
Since the 1990s, the Department of Water Protection has conducted research on the bioindicative role of Unio mussels. Initially, the surveys supported by the US Environmental [...]
Spread of parasitic frozen hybrids on the Caribbean island
To understand the dynamics of host-pathogens coevolution and its epidemiological consequences, we need to know how new races of invasive parasites emerge. In our recent [...]
Publication in Behavioral Ecology on adaptations to urban conditions in a Crocidura species
The prestigious Behavioral Ecology has just published an article (online for now) by Leszek Rychlik and colleagues from Portugal (University of Lisbon) on the differences [...]
A paper on shrews in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Recently, an article about the causes of behavioral differentiation among shrews, by Leszek Rychlik and co-authors from Portugal (University of Lisbon) and Germany (University of [...]
Publication in Molecular Ecology
Genomic analyses reveal adaptive evolution of the fish ectoparasite, Gyrodactylus bullatarudis that is shaped by the combination of gene duplications, divergence and recombination. In a [...]
Advances in the Evolutionary Understanding of MHC Polymorphism
Jacek Radwan (Evolutionary Biology Group) and colleagues have published a paper in Trends in Genetics in which they review evolutionary mechanisms explaining landmark features of [...]
New article in Nature Plants authored by Michał Bogdziewicz
The impacts of climate change on forests can be dramatic but can also play out via more subtle interactions between different species. A new study [...]