Events
Our Institute jointly with other Białowieża’s institutions celebrated the International Day of Biodiversity in the Park of Knowledge and Fun at the reconstructed Palace Train Station. The event organized by the Białowieża Academy of Biodiversity on May 22, 2015 was...
25.05.2015
MRI in media
The world’s most popular environmental science and conservation news site Mongabay.com features an article by Jeremy Hance “The triumph of the bison: Europe’s biggest animal bounces back a century after vanishing” including quotes from dr hab....
13.05.2015
Events
The DNA metabarcoding Spring School is now in its fifth edition and this year it is co-organized by the metabarcoding.org team and the Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża, Poland. The DNA metabarcoding spring school will hold from the...
27.03.2015
MRI in media
Another article by the journalist Wojciech Mikołuszko, describing the studies conducted by the Mammal Research Institute has been published in an onboard magazine of the Polish Airlines LOT. This time the subject of his interest were the research on the genetics and...
12.03.2015
MRI in media
A recently published in PLOS ONE study by the Mammal Research Institute staff, shows isotopic analysis of the oldest preserved in Europe bones of bison Bison bonasus. The article aroused the interest of journalists from natural science magazine Biosphere which...
09.03.2015
Science comics
Our another science cartoon shows the results of research on the lynx genetic variability which showed an extensive gene flow at continental scale, but also clear genetic differentiation between populations correlated with climatic factors. Full article: Long-range...
24.02.2015
Science comics
This week science cartoon presents the results of the comparative genetic analyses of the European bison from Polish and Belarusian part of Białowieża Forest. The paper “Genes of the extinct Caucasian bison (Bison bonasus caucasicus) are the source of genetic...
24.02.2015
MRI in media
A recently published in PLOS ONE study by the Mammal Research Institute and Tubingen University staff on isotopic analysis of European bison bone material on the websites ScienceDaily and (idw) More here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150212065034.htm...
18.02.2015
Science comics
Our another science cartoon shows the results of research conducted by international team of scientists on the daily activity of lynx. The study showed that the lynx activity level was not influenced by the daylight duration and the activity pattern was bimodal, even...
05.02.2015
Events
Sixty years ago, on 20th of January 1955, appeared the first issue of Acta Theriologica. At the beginning it was published by the Institute of Zoology PAS in Warsaw, but from 1958 by the Mammal Research Institute PAS in Białowieża. During 60 years, Acta Theriologica...
23.01.2015
