📣 New paper 📣 Published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social, we investigated 🔍 the cascading effects of forest stand decline 🍁 on saproxylic beetle communities via the changes in deadwood and TreMs substrates. doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Paulina Arancibia
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PhD Ecology & Evolution | Metacommunities & networks enthusiast | postdoc in the PredCom research group at Univ. of Jyväskylä, Finland | cat person 🐈
¿Sabías que los proyectos de becarios generan réditos de >US$500M anuales que nadie conoce ni mide? Mary Valdés, presidenta de SICh, explica en El Mercurio por qué urge medir bien la retribución y dejar de ignorar las propuestas de la comunidad.
Long overdue, but the main results of my metacommunity experiment are finally out! Different aspects of spatial network structure shape ecological dynamics at different scales—connectivity boosts biomass overall, but locally it can do the opposite. 🔬🧫🌐
bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 4mo agoNetwork topology differentially shapes ecological processes across scales in experimental metacommunities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719207v1
Becas Chile: el costo tabú de retribuir en Chile. Pensar la retribución fuera de la matriz de volver o pagar escuelasparalajusticiasocial.net/becas-chile-el… #BecasChile #Retribucion @eJusticiaSocial
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. go.nature.com/49fOOrP
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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📣 New paper out 🌊 Happy to share our work exploring how intertidal communities have responded to 23 years of changing sea-surface temps. along the Humboldt upwelling system. A great collab between researchers in Chile 🇨🇱 and Finland 🇫🇮 🌐🌎 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Two Decades of Community Responses Reveal a Consistent Increase in Species Occurrences in South‐Eastern Pacific Rocky Shores
Aim Understanding how diverse communities respond to environmental fluctuations is a central challenge in ecology. Here, we assessed how communities responded to environmental variation over the pas...
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🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining. We're trying to understand why. If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins). 👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791... Reposts welcome!
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Check out our new preprint. In this review we show the comparative decline of experimental approaches in community ecology and discuss some alternatives to push the field forward
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 10mo agoExperimental community ecology in decline: A call to embrace technology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683879v1
Academy Research Fellow Minna Hiltunen aims to reconstruct what Finland’s lakes were like before browning of waters alarmingly accelerated decades ago. With a unique paleolimnological research method she will is analyze the resting eggs of water fleas buried within the sediments. 🔎 r.jyu.fi/GbU
🚨 the abstract submission and registration deadline for the Protistology in the Nordics meeting has been extended! 🚨 If you study, work, or just love protists, consider attending this meeting (free for ECRs!) www.jyu.fi/en/events/pr...
Protistology in the Nordics 2025
Come share your exciting new research in all areas of Protistology.
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I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...
StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content
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If you study or work with protists, consider attending the Protistology in the Nordics (PiN) meeting in Jyväskylä this May. Abstract submission is open! www.jyu.fi/en/events/pr...
Protistology in the Nordics 2025
Come share your exciting new research in all areas of Protistology.
jyu.fi
One of my favorite moments from last week at #OIKOSFin2025 with Cristian N. Waggershayser, Mathew Leibold, and @jeremycours.bsky.social
We enjoyed ending #OIKOSFin2025 with an academic writing workshop by Marc Abernathy and Carlos Aguilar! And if you’re now wondering how to get your newly improved paper published, did you know that the NSO can give publishing workshops and insights on our very own journals? 🤩
Events like this require a lot of organising effort, a lot of stressful work, so I want to share photos of the team that made the conference happen
#OIKOSFin2025 participants enjoying the outdoors around Jyväskylä in one of the 3 (!) conference fieldtrips
Maris Grunskis@maris-grunskis.bsky.social · last yr.The last day's program included three outdoor trips into the nature. I went with the group to the Hyppäänvuori natire trail with impressive landscapes and massive, old pine tree #photographerinjyvaskyla #eventphotography #Oikosfin2025 @oikosfinland.bsky.social
I was officiall photographer for Oikos Finland 2025 Conference! Four day full-time photoshoot. My fingers hurt from holding camera, but it was so much fun! Thanks to the organisers of @oikosfinland.bsky.social for choosing me as a photographer, especially to @pauliarancibia.bsky.social!
A great conference dinner and party evening at Oikos Finland 2025 ! We would like to thank the organisers for this fantastic event filled with research and networking and attracting 400+ scientists to @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @oikosfinland.bsky.social
Super cool talk by @jeremycours.bsky.social about the effects of landscape heterogeneity on forest birds diversity #OIKOSFin2025
Jenna Rönttinen presenting her poster at #OIKOSFin2025 ! Her work focused on the effects of landscape clearcut accumulation over time on Finnish breeding birds. 🐦 One of main results is that old-growth forest specialists are not affected by short term but 📉 due to 20 yrs accumulation! Stay tuned 🦉
A great start to the #OIKOSFin2025 conference with a JSDM workshop. Now we can all HMSC like Otso Ovaskainen 💻📈 🌐
🚨New paper🚨 We studied how traits & eco. specialisations of forest birds species 🦉 have affected their abundances and distributions in Europe over the last 40 yrs. Among others, we found a significant 📉 of boreal species, especially the ones related to mixed forests. 🌳🌲 🍁🌐🌍🧪 tinyurl.com/mppjr6uu
Changes in abundance and distribution of European forest bird populations depend on biome, ecological specialisation and traits
Forest bird abundance in Europe has remained stable overall, unlike farmland species which have declined dramatically in recent decades. However, this apparent stability may hide large variations amo...
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A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology
The Institute of Environmental Sciences CML and Faculty of Science is looking for:[PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology]Vacancy number: 15501 We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Ph...
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