Celine Arzel
Docent, Wildlife Research and Management. PhD
Wetland Ecology Group, University of Helsinki celine.arzel@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1866-2067 |
Wildlife; Game species management; bird migration; Behavioral Ecology; Foraging Ecology; Wetland Ecology, Waterbirds, Eco toxicology
I am interested to unravel the mechanisms that drive wildlife population dynamic and their habitat choice in order to provide management and monitoring tools to managers and decision makers. I have particularly focused my research on game species with special emphasis on Anatidae. I have studied their ecology , from foraging ecology to habitat use, on their wintering, staging and breeding ground in Europe. I am an enthusiast wetland ecologist passionate about multi-stressor factors affecting the food web structure.
I am the PI of the WATBRO project funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (2018-2022). WATBRO investigates the effects of water browning on lake ecosystem functioning in the boreal zone based on long-term data sets collected in the Evo area, Finland.
I am co-PI of the POOL project together with Petri Nummi and Aurélie Davranche funded by Kone Foundation (2022-2025). POOL gathers the expertise of a multidisciplinary team of researchers, artists and stakeholders to provide in depth knowledge and raise awareness on deficiently known seasonal wetlands in boreal forest ecosystems. POOL goal is to propose solutions to raise efficiency of natural management of forestry companies and wetland conservation.
I am studying the evolution of waterbird community, land-use and climate change in the Archipelago Sea based on an amazing 40 year bird survey database which I'm helping to safeguard and share.
Finally, I am an Academy Research Fellow and PI of the project DiSRUPT - Ducks as Sentinels of endocRine disRUPTing chemicals in surface water funded by the Academy of Finland from 2020 to 2025. DiSRUPT is an International effort to study the effect of Endocrine disruptive contaminants in ducks.
2021: Environmental ecology EKOL4102 , 3 courses of 2h each: Case studies. Endocrine disruptors, Microplastics, Eutrophication and brownification.
2020: Presenting and publishing scientific data in biology BIOL5203: supervision of 3 students
2020: Presentation of research projects BIOL2003: 1h
2019: Organization and coordination of a NOVA joint course for Master and PhD students on Wetland ecology and management. 3.5 ECTS, course to be hold at Lammi Biological Station, 2-6th of September 2019.
2006 - 2007: 2 weeks, Organization of a training course for PhD students and post-doc fellows: Introduction to R software and statistical treatments of databases, Tour du Valat Biological Station, France.
2006: 6 months, 147 hours, Assistant lecturer in Animal Biology at Toulouse University, France
2005: Lecture on waterfowl migratory ecology to Finnish Master and PhD students at Helsinki University, Finland (as part of a NOVA course).
- An evaluation of global LULC maps for the estimation of habitat use of a declining migratory waterbird along its flyway (2025)
- Biological Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Chemical responses of small boreal lakes to atmospheric and catchment drivers over four decades (2025)
- Science of the Total Environment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Contaminants of emerging concern in an endangered population of common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in the Baltic Sea (2025)
- Environmental Pollution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The older the bolder: common goldeneye antipredator behaviour based on long-term individual data (2025)
- Animal Behaviour
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A multi-sensor approach to monitor the ongoing restoration of edaphic conditions for salt marsh species facing sea level rise: An adaptive management case study in Camargue, France (2024)
- Science of the Total Environment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Biomass and sustainable yields of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) in small boreal lakes with respect to lake properties and water quality (2024)
- Fisheries Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Common Eider Somateria molissima under pressure from endocrine disrupting chemicals (2024) 7th International Sea Duck Conference Arzel C., Ask A., Vakili F. S., Lemesle P., Frøyland S. H., Lunde E., Peterson S., Brand A.-F, Zhang J., Ciesielski T. M., Asimakopoulos A. G., Noreikiene K., Hsu B.-Y., Ruuskanen S., Jolkkonen J., Peetumber T., Wilson N. M., Björkman S., Sonne C., Koivisto S., Öst M., Jaatinen K., Mohring B., Jónsson J. E., Hansen M. and Jaspers V. L.B.
(Other publication) - From mother to egg: Variability in maternal transfer of trace elements and steroid hormones in common eider (Somateria mollissima) (2024)
- Science of the Total Environment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pike Mercury Concentration in Small Boreal Headwater Lakes During Four Decades of Regional and Local Changes (2024)
- Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pilot study on neonicotinoids in Finnish waterbirds: no detectable concentrations in common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) plasma (2024)
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Which Natural Wetland Characteristics Could be Used in Creating Temporary Wetlands? (2024)
- Wetlands
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - An agent-based model to quantify energetics, movement and habitat selection of mid-continent mallards in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (2023)
- Ecological Modelling
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Causes and impacts of water browning in Finnish forest wetlands (2023) Blanchet C. C., Davranche A., Nummi P., Kahilainen K. K., Secondi J., Sundell J., Arzel C.
(Other publication) - Contaminants in waterbirds (2023) Arzel C., Ask A., Lemesle P., Frøyland S., Jaspers V., Hansen M., Ciesielski T. M., Asimakopoulos A. G., Vakili S.S., Jolkkonen J., Eeva T., Björkman S., Sonne C., Shaffer S., Ruuskanen S., Koivisto S., Öst M., Waldenström J, Davranche A.
(Other publication) - Editorial: Behavioral ecological insights into organismal responses to anthropogenic environmental change: a multi-stress perspective (2023)
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Oral presentation: Monitoring biophysical parameters of wetlands using multispectral drone data (2023) Davranche A, Houet T, Gunnarsson G, Kjeller E, Secondi J, Farau S, Leray A, Bobineau M, Lorieux M, Lindberg H, Lientola E, Blanchet C, Nummi P , Arzel C
(Other publication) - The older the bolder: long-term monitoring of risk-taking behaviour during incubation in a waterfowl species (2023) Vakili Farshad S., Pöysä Hannu, Liehrmann Océane, Runko Pentti, Arzel Céline
(Other publication) - The role of seasonal wetlands as biodiversity hotspots and nature-based solution to water quality decline in the Finnish boreal forest ecosystems (2023) Davranche A., Arzel C., Nummi P., Sundell J., Loehr J., Kahilainen K., Secondi J., Blanchet C., Minkkinen K., Vasander H., Lindberg H., Seppä H., Sonk-Rautio K., Sigdel U., Lilley T., Manninen-Johansen S., Vihervaara P., Alhainen M., Kara T., Ilmonen J. .
(Other publication) - Waterbird contamination by endocrine disruptors (2023) Arzel C., Ask A., Ciesielski T. M., Asimakopoulos A. G., Zhang J., Lemesle P., Frøyland S., Lunde E., Vakili S. S., Jolkkonen J., Eeva T., Björkman S., Sonne C., Shaffer S. A., Ruuskanen S., Öst M., Waldenström J., Davranche A., Hansen M., Jaspers V.L.B.
(Other publication) - Ecology and extent of freshwater browning - What we know and what should be studied next in the context of global change (2022)
- Science of the Total Environment
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
