News & Updates

A recent article published in Conservation Biology , entitled “ Distribution, scale, and drivers of mass mortality events in Europe’s freshwater bivalves ” , reveals the scale of mass die-offs of freshwater bivalves across Europe. The study was conducted within a COST Action project CONFREMU and involved numerous Polish scientists among the co-authors, including   Dr Maria Urbańska from the Laboratory of Animal Ecology . The results indicate that the main threats include dr

Between 24 and 26 October 2025, the 13th Meeting of the White Stork Research Group (GBBB) was held at the Nature Education Centre in Ląd, under the honorary patronage of the Rector of the Poznań University of Life Sciences, Prof. Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz. This year’s meeting was organised by members of our Department: Dr Marcin Tobółka – Chair of GBBB, and Dr Joanna Białas – Secretary of GBBB, with invaluable support from the Wielkopolska Landscape Parks team . Presentations we

We’re delighted to launch the new website and blog of the Department of Zoology! 🎉 Here, we’ll share the essence of what we do — our research on animals, stories from the field and the lab, and insights into the everyday life of zoologists. We hope this space will become not only a showcase of our work but also a place of inspiration and dialogue — between science and society, and between theory and the practice of wildlife conservation. Stay tuned — soon you’ll find posts a