Modern modeling suggests: Achieving ‘good ecological status´ in the Finnish inner Archipelago Sea would require nutrient loads in the catchment area to be halved. Read more 👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/news/math... #EnvStatgroup

In today’s REC Seminar, postdoc Flávia Nitta Fernandes presented her plans to study genetic diversity and genetic load in the Glanville fritillary metapopulation. She is a new addition to @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social’s group, and we’re pleased to have her! Welcome! 😊

Happy Easter from the Research Centre for Ecological Change! 🐣🌱🐇🌸 Spring is finally arriving here in Finland, and the landscape is slowly coming back to life.

Today we had a full house as guest speaker Jussi Mäkinen from the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) discussed the use of new data streams for detecting global change. Thank you, Jussi, for taking the time to visit us! #RECSeminar

🗨️ Today at the REC Seminar, postdoc Diego Rondon from the EnvStat group gave us an introduction to the Applications of #SpatialStatistics to Ecological data. Thank you for an excellent talk!

Last week, the EnvStat group got to celebrate the successful defence of Karel Kaurila's PhD thesis. 🎉 Congratulations to Karel and his supervisor Jarno Vanhatalo! Many thanks to Richard Wilkinson for traveling from the UK to serve as the opponent.

In this week's REC seminar, postdoctoral researcher Andréa Davrinche shared her work on "Disturbance history effects on the diversity-function relationship of plant communities." 🌲 🌳 🌱

This week's REC coffee was extra special as we celebrated another coworker starting their parental leave and a new exciting chapter. We wish you all the best during this special time — and look forward to welcoming you back! 🧡 🎈

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Yesterday at the REC Seminar, Professor @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social offered her perspective on building a career in research — a valuable session for our early career scientists! 😊💫

Greetings from the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland! Our postdoc sammi97lai.bsky.social presented her work showing that the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in the #BalticSea are strongly context dependent, varying across biodiversity facets and tropic levels. 🌊 #plankton

🦋 This week in the REC Seminar, doctoral researcher Lola Fernández Multigner introduced us to the "Genetic Consequences of Range Dynamics in Finnish Butterflies". Thank you Lola!

A throwback to the REC Seminar a couple of weeks ago 📸—coordinator and science communicator Pinja Kettunen sharing her best tips for making scientific presentations more visually effective.

Last week, postdoc Tanel Vahter visited Professors Normand and Svenning at Aarhus University to discuss methods and future collaboration between Aarhus, Helsinki & Tartu on historical land-use legacies. He also presented results from his Marie Curie Fellowship on long-term soil legacies in Estonia.

Two more days to apply for a postdoctoral position in Biodiversity Economics! DL 18.2. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision. See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

This work was made possible by Karel Kaurila - my PhD student who will defend his thesis in a month. I will also present this in ISBA world meeting this year. 3/3

📢 We are hiring! Post doc: Do you want to play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision? You might be the person we are looking for! See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... DL for applications: 18.2.

Greetings from the Laine Lab Annual Meeting in Tallinn! We spent two great days sharing research updates, exchanging work and wellbeing hacks, and debating whether and how researchers should strive for societal impact. A guided tour of Tallinn’s Old Town was a refreshing way to wrap it all up!

Does local adaptation shape community assembly? Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠 doi.org/10.32942/X2G... @erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social

REC:n johtaja @annaliisalaine.bsky.social kertoo BEF-hankkeesta, joka selvittää, miten biodiversiteetti ja ihmistoiminta säätelevät luonnon elintärkeitä ekosysteemitoimintoja. Mukana myös @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social, @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social ja Tomas Roslin. Subtitles also in english!

We’ve been welcoming many new faces lately! Today, postdoc Mahtab Yazdanian kicked off the REC Spring Seminar Series by sharing her past work and her exciting plans ahead. She’ll be working closely with @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social on #geneticdiversity. Welcome to the team, Mahtab!

22 subalpine meadows, 1 177 396 flowers from 163 taxa, 9707 insect pollinators. The results of this extraordinary effort are now published! 🐝🌷

Sustainable land management practices, such as carbon farming, offer promising alternatives to intensive agriculture. Carbon farming practices can support biodiversity when tailored to species group and context.

Olemme mukana Priodiversity LIFE:n ja Lukkin järjestämässä Luontotietopäivässä 22.1.2026! @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social kertoo aamusessiossa tutkimuksen näkökulmia monimuotoisuusseurantoihin ja niiden kehittämiseen. Tilaisuuden tarkempi ohjelma täällä: www.metsa.fi/projekti/pri...

Greetings from the EnvStat Winter Workshop held at the Lammi biological station! ❄️ We at the Environmental and Ecological Statistics group focus on ecological and environmental change research, statistical methods development, and supporting environmental management and decision-making.

We’re kicking off the year with the first REC newsletter —featuring recent publications, projects, and upcoming events! Read it here: mailchi.mp/97ed6942f5b8...

We are all very thankful for the past year and happy to welcome the next one! Stay tuned for more exciting REC news. ✨️

🎄Wrapping up the year with our last REC Seminar: Laura Cappelatti from the NorEcoFun group explained how they study tundra carbon exchange under current environmental pressures. ✨

REC Seminar (Week 49): Veera Nieminen presented her work titled “Impact of host population change on microbial diversity and disease risk.” 🦠🌿

Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!

Tänään sitä saisi, tiedettä siis! 😍 Uusien professoreidemme juhlaluennot alkavat kello 14.30 ja niitä voi seurata mm. striimin kautta. Luvassa 20 minuutin katsauksia siihen, mitä tutkimme juuri nyt.

🏛️Professori Tomas Roslin pitää juhlaluentonsa ”Lajien vuorovaikutus muuttuvassa maailmassa” keskiviikkona 3.12.2025 klo 16:00 yliopiston päärakennuksessa. #uudetprofessorit #UniversityofHelsinki #biojaympäristötieteellinen

In today’s REC Seminar Sammi explained how she studies the connection between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic ecosystems such as the Baltic Sea. 🌊 #EnvStat

Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? 🐝 Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? 🦗 Miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? 🐜 REC:n professorit Tomas Roslin ja Jarno Vanhatalo vastaavat YLEn luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön kysymyksiin. Kuuntele haastattelu alta!

In today's REC seminar, Perttu Anttonen explained how they study the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions such as the yield, abundance, and phenology of mushrooms, fruit trees, and moths. 🍄🍏 #EnvStat

The Ecological Society of America just highlighted our article among 5 notable studies recently published in their journals! In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi. esa.org/blog/2025/11...

In today's REC Seminar, Natalie van Dis gave a talk titled: "Population buffering effect of vegetation heterogeneity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly depends on the type of climatic perturbation" 🦋

On Wednesday, we carried out a 2-part experiment on the effects of good food and great company on a community of ecologists and statisticians at the REC Christmas party. N = 31. Community structure: Skewed towards postdocs with some professors and other staff. Initial results: Very promising! 🎄✨

In this week’s REC seminar, Post doc Bastien Parisy discussed the complex relationship between plants and soil microbes, and how both environmental change and plant health shape these interactions. 🌾

REC Seminar week 42 Michael Rechsteiner introduced us to Intraspecific Variation in Plant Disease Resistance Along Elevational Gradients. 🌱🏔️

REC Seminar week 41 Arthur Rodriguez presented his talk: "Drivers of functional diversity and species contribution to functional diversity in boreal butterflies" 🦋

"Guilbault et al. (2025) offer a promising pathway for leveraging imperfect biodiversity datasets to assess the relative importance of biodiversity threats across time and space" Research highlight in J. Anim. Ecol. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @emyguilbault.bsky.social

In last week's REC Seminar, Michael Giolai gave a presentation titled "The co-evolutionary underpinning of disease dynamics." Michael is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laine lab. His work focuses on plant-pathogen interactions.

REC:ssä on tällä viikolla vietetty iloisia jäähyväisjuhlia! 🎉 Pitkäaikainen REC:läinen @hannasusi.bsky.social aloittaa lokakuussa Maatalous-metsätieteellisessä tiedekunnassa kasvipatologian lehtorina. Kiitos Hanna kaikista näistä vuosista! Maa-metsis saa riveihinsä erinomaisen lehtorin.

🔔Last chance to apply! #postdoc #openpositions

REC seminars have commenced for the Autumn 2025! This week post doc Jean-Baptiste Floc'h presented his recent results regarding the effects of carbon management on plant leaf microbiomes. #ecology #microbiome #plantecology #carbonmanagement #agriculture

Stuck in a bus? Here are a few REC keywords in a commute-friendly puzzle! How many can you find? 🪲 #ecologicalresearch #environment #statistics #biodiversity

Ålands Radio: Pitkäaikainen kartoittaja Ella Hemming kertoo Ahvenanmaan ketoverkoston pitkäaikaisseurannasta ja siitä, miksi tutkimus on ainutlaatuinen maailmassa. Yli 30-vuotisten seurantojen turvaamiseksi etsitään parhaillaan lisärahoitusta. alandsradio.ax/nyheter/varl...

📍Observer bias is a known challenge when modeling presence-only data, which many methods address. Using a virtual observer approach, we investigated and tailored observer bias correction of two main observer behaviours: explorers vs followers. ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kartoittajamme ovat jälleen uurastaneet Ahvenanmaan maastossa laskemassa täpläverkkoperhosen toukkapesiä. Kartoitusten puoliväli on ohitettu ja hyvältä näyttää! Toukkapesiä on löytynyt jo yli 1600 eli kokonaissumma tulee olemaan moninkertainen huonoon viime vuoteen verrattuna! 🐛