Studies
At present, 12 doctoral students continued their studies in the field of biomedical sciences (000 B): 11 – in ecology and environmental research (03 B) and 1 – in zoology (05 B). The Department of Terrestrial Ecosystems has 5 doctoral students, whereas the Department of Aquatic Ecosystems - 5 and the Department of Ecological Physiology, Ethology and Parasitology - 2 doctoral students.
Dissertations were defended at the Institute:
in 2004:
Ramunė Bučinskienė (ecology and environmental research) "Studies of Aneugenic Effects in Freshwater Molluscs from Contaminated Habitats and after Treatment with Heavy Metals, Ammonia and Crude Oil Compounds"
Ana Budrienė (ecology and environmental research) "Reproductive Ecology and Behaviour of Predatory Wasps (Hymenoptera: Eumeninae)" [Summary] [Full text]
in 2006:
Laima Balčiauskienė (ecology and environmental research) “Feeding Ecology of Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) and Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) Based on Craniometry of Prey”
Virginija Pliūraitė (ecology and environmental research) “Change Regularities of Macrozoobenthos Indices in Lithuanian Rivers“, and by Jurgita Sorokaitė “Influence of Ecological and Ethological Factors on the Breeding Success of Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)”
Vilma Baužienė (ecology and environmental research) “Search for Sex Pheromones in Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) on the Basis of Simulium lineatum Species“.
in 2007:
Henrikas Ostrauskas (ecology and environmental research) “Status and distribution of quarantine and other related to their habitats insect species in Lithuania”
Rasa Binkienė (zoology) “Faunal and ecogeographic analysis of helminths of insectivorous mammals (Insectivora) of the northwestern Palearctic”
Asta Križanauskienė (zoology) “Investigations of genetic diversity, specificity and phylogeography of avian haemoproteids and malaria parasites (Haemosporida): linkage between traditional and molecular data” [Summary]
Jurijus Komisarovas (zoology) “Flatworm (Platyhelminthes) fauna of turdidae and other passeriformes migrating along the Baltic-White Sea migration route“.
in 2008:
Egidijus Leliūna (ecology and environmental research) "Phenotype and genotype variation in salmon (Salmo salar L.) and sea trout (S. trutta trutta L.) populations of the Nemunas Basin" [Summary]
Audronė Matusevičiūtė (zoology) "Microarthropod complexes and their bioindicator properties in naturally regenerating and recultivated soils" [Summary]