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).
- Effect of the timing of spring thaw on the breeding performance in two sympatric waterbird species. 3rd Pan European Duck conference. Jindřichův Hrade, Czechia, 23 - 29 April 2012. (2012) Arzel C., Dessborn L., Pöysä H., Elmberg J., Nummi P., Sjöberg K
(Other publication) - Effect of the timing of spring thaw on the breeding performance in two sympatric waterbird species. 7th Symposium on Limnology and Aquatic birds of the Aquatic Birds Working Group of the International Society of Limnology 15-17th of August 2012 Kristianstad, Sweden (2012) Arzel C., Dessborn L., Pöysä H., Elmberg J., Nummi P. & Sjöberg K. 2012
(Other publication) - Innate responses of mallard ducklings towards aerial, aquatic and terrestrial predators (2012)
- Behaviour
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Phenology of Anatidae migration in southern Finland and factors driving their migration (2012) Arzel C., Rönkä M., Saari L., Rainio K., Lehikoinen E
(Other publication) - 40 years of duck survey in the Archipelago Sea, NOWAC conference, Öster Malma, 24-28 Oct 2011 (2011) Arzel C., Saari L., Lehikoinen E., Rainio K., Rönkä M.
(Other publication) - Cultural practices might enhance red-legged partridge presence : a fine-scale field study in a viticulture region of southern France. XXXth IUGB Congress and Perdix XIII, Barcelona, 5-9 Sept. (2011) Ponce-Boutin F. , Jakob C. , Arzel C. , Mathon J.-F., Calenge C.
(Other publication) - Early springs and breeding performance in two sympatric bird species with different migration strategies NOWAC conference, Öster Malma, 24-28 Oct. 2011 (2011) Arzel C., Dessborn L., Pöysä H., Nummi P., Elmberg J., Sjöberg K
(Other publication) - Emigration rates and population turnover of teal Anas crecca in two major wetlands of western Europe (2011)
- Wildlife Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Are ducks able to adapt their migratory habits to environmental change? (2010) Arzel C., Rönkä M., Davranche A., Elmberg J., Guillemain M., Saari L., Rainio K., Lehikoinen E.
(Other publication) - Comportement et alimentation de la sarcelle d hiver Anas crecca lors de la migration pré nuptiale (2010)
- Ornithos : revue d'ornithologie de terrain
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Is the changing spring phenology affecting equally short and long distance waterfowl migrants? (2010) Arzel C., Dessborn L., Nummi P., Pöysä H., Elmberg J., Sjöberg K.
(Other publication) - Space based tools to monitor the habitats of migratory waterbirds (2010) Davranche A., Arzel C., Pöysä H., Nummi P., Elmberg J., Clausen P., Pellikka P.
(Other publication) - Why do ducks migrate and how do they adapt to changes in environmental conditions? (2010) Arzel C., Rönkä M., Davranche A., Elmberg J., Guillemain M., Saari L., Lehikoinen E., Rainio K.
(Other publication) - Fiche espèce : la Sarcelle d´hiver, migration et survie (2009)
- La chasse en Alsace
(E1 Popularised article) - A flyway perspective of food resource abundance in a long-distance migrant, the Common Teal (Anas crecca crecca). (2008)
- Journal of Ornithology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The income-capital breeding dichotomy revisited : late winter body condition is related to breeding success in an income breeder (2008)
- Ibis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A flyway perspective of foraging activity in Eurasian Teal Anas crecca. (2007)
- Canadian Journal of Zoology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Average mass of seeds encountered by foraging dabbling ducks in Western Europe (2007)
- Wildlife Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Déplacements hivernaux des sarcelles d´hiver baguées en Camargue (2007)
- Faune sauvage
(E1 Popularised article) - Experimental functional response and inter-individual variation in foraging rate of teal (Anas crecca) (2007)
- Behavioural Processes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
