The Pinglu Canal is the first artificial canal since founding of People’s Republic China following Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It a major pioneer project for many national strategies, and bears great construction significance. Attractive natural landscape ecological environment, abundant tourism cultural resources along have raised higher environmental requirement its construction. In this st...

The round-table discussion dedicated to the 30th anniversary of journal Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia) took place on October 26, 2022 within framework XIII International conference higher education (ICHE). Since its founding, acts as a platform discuss urgent issues education. In different periods, researchers discussed competence-based approach, Bologna process, onli...

Ant queens that attempt to disperse and found new colonies independently face high mortality risks. The exposure of queens to soil entomopathogens during claustral colony founding may be particularly harmful, as founding queens lack the protection conferred by mature colonies. Here, we tested the hypotheses that founding queens (I) detect and avoid nest sites that are contaminated by fungal pat...

During the nest-founding phase of the bumble bee colony cycle, queens undergo striking changes in maternal care behavior. Early in the founding phase, prior to the emergence of workers in the nest, queens are reproductive and also provision and feed their offspring. However, later in the founding phase, queens reduce their feeding of larvae and become specialized on reproduction. This transitio...

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (IRGEE) celebrates its 30th anniversary 2022. Our founding Editors would certainly have envisioned that the journal provi...