Celine Arzel
Docent, Wildlife Research and Management. PhD
Wetland Ecology Group, University of Helsinki celine.arzel@utu.fi |
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).
- Distributions of Baltic seabirds and climate change effects – World Seabird Conference, 26.–30.10.2015, Kapkaupunki, Etelä-Afrikka (2015) Rönkä M., Lehikoinen E., Arzel C., Saari L.
- Diversity, abundance and brood numbers of waterbirds in relation to habitat properties – PEDS IV, 7.–11.4.2015, Hanko (2015) Arzel C., Rönkä M., Tolvanen H., Kamppinen M., Lehikoinen E.
- Habitat use in ducks breeding in boreal freshwater wetlands: a review (2015)
- European Journal of Wildlife Research
- Kosteikko- ja vesilintujen lajirunsaus ja parimäärät sekä vesilintujen poikuemäärät maatalousalueen kosteikoilla. Species and pair numbers of waterbirds and waterfowl and brood numbers of waterfowl in agricultural wetlands. (2015)
- Suomen Riista
- Population dynamics in the common Teal – importance of climate in breeding and wintering areas. 4th Pan European Duck Symposium, Hanko, Finland, 7-11 April 2015. (2015) Holopainen, S., Arzel, C., Nummi, P., Rintala, J., Guillemain, M., Tamisier, A., Pöysä, H
- Population trends of the Goldeneye in the Finnish archipelago – a long-term study – Pan-European Duck Symposium (PEDS) IV, 7.–11.4.2015, Hanko (2015) Arzel C., Saari L., Rönkä M.
- Så undviker andungarna rovdjuren (2015)
- Svensk Jakt
- Species diversity, abundance and brood numbers of breeding waterbirds in relation to habitat properties in an agricultural watershed (2015)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
- Time use and foraging behaviour in pre-breeding dabbling ducks Anas spp. in sub-arctic Norway (2015)
- Journal of Ornithology
- A long term study of breeding waterfowl populations in the Finnish Baltic Sea (2014) Saari L., Arzel C
- Andungar har bra koll när faran hotar (2014)
- Vår Fågelvärld
- Early springs and breeding performance in two sympatric duck species with different migration strategies (2014)
- Ibis
- Habitat and resource use by waterfowl in the northern hemisphere in autumn and winter (2014)
- Wildfowl
- Spring migration of waterfowl in the northern hemisphere: a conservation perspective (2014)
- Wildfowl
- Climate change and duck population dynamics (2013) Mitchell C., Fox A.D., Guillemain M., Pöysä H., Arzel C., Dessborn L., Ekroos J., Gunnarsson G., Holm T.E., Christensen T.K., Lehikoinen A., Rintala J., Møller A.P.
- Density dependence in ducks: a review of the evidence (2013)
- European Journal of Wildlife Research
- Effect of the timing of spring thaw on the breeding performance in two sympatric waterbird species (2013) Arzel C., Dessborn L., Pöysä H., Elmberg J., Nummi P., Sjöberg K
- Effects of climate change on European ducks: what do we know and what do we need to know? (2013)
- Wildlife Biology
- Waterfowl Habitat Use and Selection – Spring Migration and Pre-breeding (2013) Stafford J., Janke A., Pearse A., Anteau M., Eichholz M., Fox A., Straub J., Elmberg J., Arzel C.
- Assessing habitat suitability for waterbirds along the european flyway using satellite remote sensing (2012) Davranche A., Arzel C. , Pöysä H., Nummi P., Elmberg J., Clausen P., Pellikka P.
