📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

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The position(s) are now open until early August. tinyurl.com/IIASABEC26 Open to all nationalities. Workplace in Laxenburg, Austria. #biodiversity #ecology #conservation #postdoc 🧪

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Martin Jung@martinjung.eu · 4mo ago

We are soon opening up a research position on integrated spatial planning / ecological modelling @iiasa.ac.at Do reach out if interested and keep a look-out on iiasa.ac.at/employment/j...

🌊 New paper in @ambio-journal.bsky.social 🎣 Sediment organic carbon content is lower in intensely trawled areas, declining by 0.05 wt% per additional swept area ratio (1 yr-1 ). rdcu.be/fqQBA

Hallitus lanseerasi kehysriihessä ennennäkemättömän kuvion. 20M€ tutkijoiden itse hankkimasta EU-rahasta lasketaan lain mukaiseksi t&k-lisärahoitukseksi ja valtion omia panostuksia vähennetään saman verran. Järjestelmätasolla tällainen ajattelu luo käsittämättömän anti-insentiivin.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

So, y'all have heard me going on about #causalinference in #ecology a lot. Now our big synthetic guide "Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research" is out! Led by Hannah Correia & Paul Ferraro, it's a great walk-through for all! 🌍🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Time to get active on @bsky.app. Arrived in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for #OSM26, sunny so far 😁. Exciting session tomorrow on #bluecarbon, featuring this poster co-designed with @laurakaikkonen.bsky.social and @eavir.bsky.social on our new @finacademies.bsky.social #softdrinkproject. DM for high-res. @helsinki.fi.

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

We're kicking off posting here to share our work on conservation science! We work especially with digital data to understand biodiversity loss, illegal wildlife trade, and human-nature interactions. Follow along for updates on the work of our interdisciplinary team here at @helsinki.fi

PROFESSOR OR ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY Open position at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology

Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology

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new publication; Particulate accumulated matter as an indicator of coastal benthic habitat condition open access link; link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Particulate accumulated matter as an indicator of coastal benthic habitat condition - Ambio

Eutrophication adversely affects coastal areas, but most indicators of eutrophication demonstrate temporal or large-scale changes in eutrophication. These usually cannot be used in local actions, such as restoration or conservation. Eutrophication also results in increased accumulation of particulate matter and here we assess the usefulness of particulate accumulated matter (PAM) as an indicator for marine habitat condition in the northern Baltic Sea. We use > 50 000 observations of PAM, to spatially model the accumulation of PAM at shallow benthic substrates, and subsequently demonstrate the use of PAM as an indicator for benthic habitat quality. Predictions show only 4.8% of the shallow marine area as not affected by PAM and the abundance of PAM negatively affected the occurrence of Fucus habitats. Estimates of amount of PAM can be used for determining areas that will benefit from restoration and nutrient abatement actions and for locating the most pristine areas in need of conservation action.

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My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Our study comparing target-based and flexible ranking approaches used in conservation planning tools has been published www.helsinki.fi/en/news/rese...

New study reveals major trade-offs in global nature conservation strategies | University of Helsinki

Recent research shows that conservation strategies aiming to protect as much habitat as possible can nearly double species protection compared to fixed-target approaches.

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Zonation 5 v2.4 is out now! This release includes fixes to a problem when using impact analysis with large rasters. github.com/zonationteam...

Release Zonation 5 v2.4 · zonationteam/Zonation5

Fixes: when using impact analysis with large rasters, the accuracy of impact buffers could get low

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Need to do Zonation analyses in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, but previous Zonation 5 distributions were not applicable? The spatial prioritisation tool Zonation 5 is now available as an Apptainer definition file for Linux systems.

Definition file code for running Zonation 5 in Apptainer containers released | Conservation Biology Informatics | University of Helsinki

Need to do Zonation analyses in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, but previous Zonation 5 distributions were not applicable? The spatial prioritisation tool Zonation 5 is now available as an ...

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Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...

MegaMove uncovers where protection is needed for marine megafauna

A new Science paper maps global hotspots for marine megafauna & finds that planned increased protection will be insufficient to cover most areas

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🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes

Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

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Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global change reshuffles species communities: who could interact with whom? We introduce new ways to measure the capacity of species & communities to rewire interactions, which can be used to predict how ecological networks might adapt to changing conditions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper: Marine biodiversity is declining across Finnish coastal waters, with loss driven by eutrophication, climate change & seabed disturbance. Urgent action, better monitoring & bridging knowledge gaps are key to ecosystem recovery. #Biodiversity #BalticSea link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Marine biodiversity loss in Finnish coastal waters: Evidence and implications for management - Ambio

Marine biodiversity loss poses significant ecological and socio-economic challenges. This paper examines how coastal biodiversity loss is expressed and outlines implications for management. Synthesizi...

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🚨 NEW paper alert! #Seagrass #functional #traits act as predictors of #biomass, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline. Main #biodiversity mechanism driving seagrass #biomass stock is through dominance. @tvarminne.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning for Nature Conservation: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Doctoral Researcher in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Deadline for applications: 15 May 2025. @ediminin.bsky.social @helsinki.fi #HELICSlab

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation

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Apply for postdoctoral researcher and doctoral researcher positions at our department! Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning for Nature Conservation: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Deadline for applications: 15 May 2025. @helsinki.fi @ediminin.bsky.social #HELICSlab

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation

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Read our new review led by the fantastic Tin Buenafe on climate smart systematic conservation planning! A major contribution!

Nature Reviews Biodiversity@natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 2y ago

New online! Current approaches and future opportunities for climate-smart protected areas

it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share— I'm hiring a postdoc! it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892

Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Marine Ecology

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

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This paper - Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - was motivated by the need to anticipate and quantify how extreme events, which are accelerating with climate change, impact nature;s contributions to people, YET ... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorp...

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Our new paper on advances of conservation planning is now out! What a great team 🙌🏻 and thanks @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social for leading it! 🤩

Sylvaine Giakoumi@sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social · 2y ago

New publication in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Given the political momentum for greater nature protection and restoration articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, we assessed the state-of-the-art of Systematic Conservation Planning. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New publication in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Given the political momentum for greater nature protection and restoration articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, we assessed the state-of-the-art of Systematic Conservation Planning. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Hallitus aikoo yhdistää riippumattomat tiedepaneelit - vastoin niiden omaa tahtoa. Hiertääkö hallitusta se, että ilmasto- ja luontopaneelit ovat arvostelleet hallituksen toimia? Riippumatonta asiantuntijatietoa päätöksenteon tukena pitää vahvistaa - ei heikentää.

HS:n tiedot | Hallitus aikoo lakkauttaa ilmastopaneelin ja vähentää uuden tiedon tuottamista

Hallitus aikoo mullistaa päätöksenteon tueksi tietoa kokoavat tiedepaneelit. Nykyisenlaiset ilmasto- ja luontopaneelit yhdistettäisiin yhteen ”jättipaneeliin”.

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New paper from me + @lauradee.bsky.social on using causal inference methods and concepts in ecology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/5)