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Latest research shows that, water volesuse only lakes horeline sad jacent to urbanareas and small midfield pond safter invasion of non-native predator (American mink). Full version of the article “Aninvasive predator affects habitat use by native prey: American...

Science cartoon by dr Tomasz Samojlik to the article “Lessons from Białowieża Forest on the history of protection and the world’s first reintroduction of a large carnivore” published in Conservation Biology. The paper shows what lessons can be...

Science cartoon by dr Tomasz Samojlik to the article “Stable isotope signatures of large herbivore foraging habitats across Europe” published by MRI PAS staff in PLoS ONE, showing influence of habitat structure on European bison and moose foraging You can...

Latest research shows that local removal of American mink had a great positive effect on nesting success of waders (northern lapwing, common redshank and black-tailed godwit). Please find the full paper at:...

Study on seasonal changes of braincase depth of least weasels revealed, that similar to shrews, they exhibit winter shrinking of the skull and brain, followed by regrow in summer. This is common strategy of small, high-metabolic animals, dealing with massively...

The research by MRI PAS on the dynamics of parasite infection level in American mink has shown that non-native species are released from enemy pressure only in the first phase of invasion and the infection is also modulated by host demographics and season. There was a...