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).
- Exploring the pollutant exposure and its potential health implications in common eiders through nontarget and target analyses (2022) Ask Amalie, Hansen Martin, Jaspers Veerle, Frøyland Sunniva, Jolkkonen Juha, Arzel Céline
(Other publication) - From mother to egg: variability in maternal transfer of trace elements in Common Eider. NETS symposium, Tromso, Norway (2022) Lemesle P., Ask A., Ciesielski T.M., Asimakopoulos A.G., Salminen K., Noreikiene K., Lindqvist M., Arzel C., Jaspers V.L.B.
(Other publication) - Incubation behaviour of Common Goldeneye (2022) Vakili S.S., Arzel C., Ask A., Björkman S., Shaffer S., Hansen M., Jaspers V. L. B.
(Other publication) - Incubation behaviour of Common Goldeneye under endocrine-disrupting chemicals and climate change pressure (2022) Vakili S.S., Arzel C., Ask A., Björkman S., Shaffer S., Hansen M., Jaspers V. L. B.
(Other publication) - Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) concentrations over the laying sequence in eggs of the common eider (Somateria mollissima) from the Baltic Sea (2022) Frøyland S.H., Zhang J., Ask A., Arzel C., Noreikiene K., Asimakopoulos A. G., Jaspers V.L.B.
(Other publication) - PFASs concentrations over the laying sequence in eggs of the common eider (Somateria mollissima) from the Baltic Sea in relation to sex steroid hormones (2022) Frøyland S.H., Zhang J., Ask A., Arzel C., Jaspers V.L.B. 2022.
(Other publication) - Variability in maternal transfers of trace elements in a declining Common Eider population (2022) Lemesle P., Ask A., Ciesielski T. M., Asimakopoulos A. G., Salminen K., Noreikiene K., Lindqvist M., Arzel C. & Jaspers V.L.B.
(Other publication) - Impact of brownification of surface water on aquatic invertebrates and waterbirds (2021) OIKOS Finland Conference on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1st -3rd February 2021, Jyväskylä Arzel Céline, Nummi Petri, Davranche Aurélie, Arvola Lauri, Blanchet Clarisse, Pöysä Hannu, Rask Martti, Viitala Risto, Manninen-Johansen Sanni, Einola Eeva, Holopainen Sari, Olin Mikko.
(Other publication) - Populations in stable and variable habitats: Green and common sandpiper in a beaver-influenced landscape (2021)
- Global Ecology and Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Invertebrates are declining in boreal aquatic habitat: the effect of brownification? (2020)
- Science of the Total Environment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lead concentrations in blood from incubating common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in the Baltic Sea (2020)
- Environment International
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Population change in breeding boreal waterbirds in a 25-year perspective: What characterises winners and losers? (2020)
- Freshwater Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sustainable management of migratory European ducks: finding model species (2018)
- Wildlife Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Vesilintukantojen kehitys Rymättylän Aaslaluodolla vuosina 1975–2015 / Population trends of breeding waterfowl in the Finnish Archipelago Sea in 1975–2015 (2018)
- Suomen Riista
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Agent-based Modeling May Help to Merge Research Traditions in Foraging Ecology in Europe and North America (2017)
- Wildlife Society Bulletin
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Cost of being paired in males: a comparison of the behaviour of paired and unpaired male Teal prior to nesting (2017) Arzel Céline, Elmberg Johan, Guillemain Matthieu
(Other publication) - Sinisorsanpoikaset välttelevät synnynnäisesti erityyppisiä petoja (2016)
- Suomen Riista
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Spatial information in ecosystem service assessment: data applicability in the cascade model context (2016)
- Journal of Land Use Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Birdwatchers’ participation in bird monitoring – PEDS IV, 7.–11.4.2015, Hanko (2015) Arzel C., Rönkä M., Sonck K., Tolvanen H., Lehikoinen E.
(I1 Audiovisual publication) - Birdwatchers’ participation in bird monitoring – World Seabird Conference, 26.–30.10.2015, Kapkaupunki, Etelä-Afrikka (2015) Arzel C., Rönkä M., Sonck K., Tolvanen H., Lehikoinen E.
(I1 Audiovisual publication)
