News
We have clear evidence on the brown bear presence in the Polish part of the Białowieża Forest. One of our camera-traps registered it on the study plot. The observation comes from 14/06/2019, the day after the observation of employees of the Forest Research Institute....
17.06.2019
MRI in media
International science-popular Cosmos magazine published an article “Encounters with wolves” on expanding wolf populations and their perception with quotes from dr. hab. Dries Kuijper from MRI PAS. You can read the piece here
12.06.2019
Science comics
Science cartoon to the article “Human and the beast-Flight and aggressive responses of European bison to human disturbance” published by the team of MRI PAS and co-worker in the PLoS ONE journal (drawing by Tomasz Samojlik) You can read the article...
03.09.2018
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Science cartoon by dr Tomasz Samojlik to the article ” Foraging habitats and niche partitioning of European large herbivores during the Holocene – Insights from 3D dental microwear texture analysis ” published by the team of MRI PAS and co-workers in...
30.07.2018
Events
The Mammal Research journal issued on behalf of MRI PAS by the Springer publisher, recorded an increase of Impact Factor. Annoonced today IF for 2017 is 1,299!
27.06.2018
Science comics
Research published in Basic and Applied Ecology journal shows that national parks in Poland are too small to protect migratory moose populations. If ban for moose hunting will be abolished, it is necessary to designate buffer zones ensuring the protection of...
19.06.2018
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In Poland two morphs of weasel occur, which differ in presence of absence of white coat in winter. Winter white morph suffers of higher predation pressure due to global warming and shortening of period when snow cover is present. The work co-authored by Dr. habil...
14.06.2018
Science comics
In our new paper we showed how the presence of wolves in combination with large tree logs interact and protect tree saplings against ungulate browsing in the Białowieża primeval forest. You can read the article here.
05.06.2018
MRI in media
A paper by MRI staff on the impact of global warming on weasels, published recently in Scientific Reports received a great deal of media attention and was widely commented, among others in The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Daily Mail and Paris Match
29.05.2018
Science comics
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...
08.05.2018
