MRI in media
The Reuters agency features an article “Under attack from beetles, ancient Polish forest faces chop” on the planned logging of the Białowieża Forest with quotes from dr Rafał Kowalczyk – the director of MRI PAS. You can read the piece here...
06.06.2016
Events
Camera trapping is increasingly becoming an important tool in ecological research. However, the organization of large collections of multimedia files and especially efficient searching for subsets of data is a challenging task. MRI PAS PhD student Jakub Bubnicki with...
03.06.2016
Events
Dr hab. D.P.J. Kuijper received a new grant from the National Science Center, Poland (OPUS grant no: 2015/17/B/NZ8/02403) entitled “Landscape of fear in closed-canopy forests: combined effects of tree logs and wolves on regeneration of palatable and less palatable...
25.05.2016
Events
New signs “Attention! Bison land!” appeared on the roads of the Białowieża Forest. This is a joint initiative of the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and WWF Poland, which funded the signs and stickers with the silhouette of a...
24.05.2016
MRI in media
The Associated Press agency features an article by Vanessa Gera “Fate of primeval forest in balance as Polands plans logging” on the planned logging of the Białowieża Forest with quotes from dr Rafał Kowalczyk – the director of MRI PAS. You can read...
23.05.2016
MRI in media
The Guardian features an article by Arthur Neslen “Last stand for Europe’s remaining ancient forest as loggers prepare to move in” with quotes from Dr. Rafał Kowalczyka and Joanna Lapinska from MRI PAS. You can read the piece here....
19.05.2016
MRI in media
The prestigious scientific journal Nature published an article “Polish scientists protest over plan to log in Białowieża Forest” including quotes from dr hab.Rafał Kowalczyk – the Director of the MRI PAS. You can read the piece here ...
29.02.2016
Science comics
Our new science cartoon shows the results of research on the habitat selection of the stone and pine marten. The study showed that their spatial niches are totaly segregated in Białowieża Forest. Full article: “Spatial niche segregation of sympatric stone marten...
07.12.2015
MRI in media
Portal Springer Animal Sciences has included an information about an article by K. Schmidt and D. Kuijper that has appeared in recent issue of the Mammal Research. The review paper introduces a new look at the “landscape of fear” phenomenon in the...
08.10.2015
Events
On September 9, 2015 we received the next information about the jackal hit by a car on the road near the Piszczac town in eastern Poland. Specimen, brought to the Institute on the same day, proved to be a 2-3 year old female with a typical golden coloration and body...
17.09.2015
