Research Centre For Ecological Change
@rececochange.bsky.social
Coordinated analysis of long-term ecological data to understand impacts of global change.
📢 We are hiring!
Post doc: Do you want to play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision? You might be the person we are looking for!
See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL for applications: 18.2.
Post doc: Do you want to play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision? You might be the person we are looking for!
See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL for applications: 18.2.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Economics
Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Economics
jobs.helsinki.fi
February 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM
📢 We are hiring!
Post doc: Do you want to play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision? You might be the person we are looking for!
See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL for applications: 18.2.
Post doc: Do you want to play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision? You might be the person we are looking for!
See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL for applications: 18.2.
Greetings from the Laine Lab Annual Meeting in Tallinn! We spent two great days sharing research updates, exchanging work and wellbeing hacks, and debating whether and how researchers should strive for societal impact. A guided tour of Tallinn’s Old Town was a refreshing way to wrap it all up!
February 4, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Greetings from the Laine Lab Annual Meeting in Tallinn! We spent two great days sharing research updates, exchanging work and wellbeing hacks, and debating whether and how researchers should strive for societal impact. A guided tour of Tallinn’s Old Town was a refreshing way to wrap it all up!
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Does local adaptation shape community assembly?
Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠
doi.org/10.32942/X2G...
@erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social
Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠
doi.org/10.32942/X2G...
@erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Does local adaptation shape community assembly?
Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠
doi.org/10.32942/X2G...
@erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social
Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠
doi.org/10.32942/X2G...
@erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social
REC:n johtaja @annaliisalaine.bsky.social kertoo BEF-hankkeesta, joka selvittää, miten biodiversiteetti ja ihmistoiminta säätelevät luonnon elintärkeitä ekosysteemitoimintoja.
Mukana myös @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social, @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social ja Tomas Roslin.
Subtitles also in english!
Mukana myös @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social, @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social ja Tomas Roslin.
Subtitles also in english!
January 28, 2026 at 12:51 PM
REC:n johtaja @annaliisalaine.bsky.social kertoo BEF-hankkeesta, joka selvittää, miten biodiversiteetti ja ihmistoiminta säätelevät luonnon elintärkeitä ekosysteemitoimintoja.
Mukana myös @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social, @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social ja Tomas Roslin.
Subtitles also in english!
Mukana myös @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social, @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social ja Tomas Roslin.
Subtitles also in english!
We’ve been welcoming many new faces lately! Today, postdoc Mahtab Yazdanian kicked off the REC Spring Seminar Series by sharing her past work and her exciting plans ahead. She’ll be working closely with @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social on #geneticdiversity. Welcome to the team, Mahtab!
January 22, 2026 at 11:48 AM
We’ve been welcoming many new faces lately! Today, postdoc Mahtab Yazdanian kicked off the REC Spring Seminar Series by sharing her past work and her exciting plans ahead. She’ll be working closely with @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social on #geneticdiversity. Welcome to the team, Mahtab!
22 subalpine meadows, 1 177 396 flowers from 163 taxa, 9707 insect pollinators. The results of this extraordinary effort are now published! 🐝🌷
Out now 🥳 our study led by @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social!
With data on 1.17 M flowers & 10,000 pollinators 🌼🐝 we show plant–pollinator timing shifts from biotic to abiotic control along alpine gradients ➡️climate change may rewire interaction synchrony
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
With data on 1.17 M flowers & 10,000 pollinators 🌼🐝 we show plant–pollinator timing shifts from biotic to abiotic control along alpine gradients ➡️climate change may rewire interaction synchrony
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:19 AM
22 subalpine meadows, 1 177 396 flowers from 163 taxa, 9707 insect pollinators. The results of this extraordinary effort are now published! 🐝🌷
Sustainable land management practices, such as carbon farming, offer promising alternatives to intensive agriculture. Carbon farming practices can support biodiversity when tailored to species group and context.
New paper led by @hannasusi.bsky.social shows biodiversity responses to carbon farming are highly context-dependent—varying by management, index and taxa 🌱🪱🐞🐦.
Abundance is the most sensitive early indicator for detecting biodiversity impacts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Abundance is the most sensitive early indicator for detecting biodiversity impacts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 20, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Sustainable land management practices, such as carbon farming, offer promising alternatives to intensive agriculture. Carbon farming practices can support biodiversity when tailored to species group and context.
Olemme mukana Priodiversity LIFE:n ja Lukkin järjestämässä Luontotietopäivässä 22.1.2026! @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social kertoo aamusessiossa tutkimuksen näkökulmia monimuotoisuusseurantoihin ja niiden kehittämiseen. Tilaisuuden tarkempi ohjelma täällä: www.metsa.fi/projekti/pri...
Luontoseurantojen kehittäminen | Metsähallitus
Luontoseurantojen kehittäminen -työpaketissa vahvistetaan luonnon tilaa koskevaa tietoa tuottavien, toimittavien ja käyttävien organisaatioiden ja asiantuntijoiden välistä yhteistyötä.
www.metsa.fi
January 19, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Olemme mukana Priodiversity LIFE:n ja Lukkin järjestämässä Luontotietopäivässä 22.1.2026! @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social kertoo aamusessiossa tutkimuksen näkökulmia monimuotoisuusseurantoihin ja niiden kehittämiseen. Tilaisuuden tarkempi ohjelma täällä: www.metsa.fi/projekti/pri...
Greetings from the EnvStat Winter Workshop held at the Lammi biological station! ❄️ We at the Environmental and Ecological Statistics group focus on ecological and environmental change research, statistical methods development, and supporting environmental management and decision-making.
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Greetings from the EnvStat Winter Workshop held at the Lammi biological station! ❄️ We at the Environmental and Ecological Statistics group focus on ecological and environmental change research, statistical methods development, and supporting environmental management and decision-making.
We’re kicking off the year with the first REC newsletter —featuring recent publications, projects, and upcoming events! Read it here: mailchi.mp/97ed6942f5b8...
January 7, 2026 at 10:57 AM
We’re kicking off the year with the first REC newsletter —featuring recent publications, projects, and upcoming events! Read it here: mailchi.mp/97ed6942f5b8...
We are all very thankful for the past year and happy to welcome the next one! Stay tuned for more exciting REC news. ✨️
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We are all very thankful for the past year and happy to welcome the next one! Stay tuned for more exciting REC news. ✨️
🎄Wrapping up the year with our last REC Seminar: Laura Cappelatti from the NorEcoFun group explained how they study tundra carbon exchange under current environmental pressures. ✨
December 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🎄Wrapping up the year with our last REC Seminar: Laura Cappelatti from the NorEcoFun group explained how they study tundra carbon exchange under current environmental pressures. ✨
REC Seminar (Week 49): Veera Nieminen presented her work titled “Impact of host population change on microbial diversity and disease risk.” 🦠🌿
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
REC Seminar (Week 49): Veera Nieminen presented her work titled “Impact of host population change on microbial diversity and disease risk.” 🦠🌿
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Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!
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Tänään sitä saisi, tiedettä siis! 😍
Uusien professoreidemme juhlaluennot alkavat kello 14.30 ja niitä voi seurata mm. striimin kautta.
Luvassa 20 minuutin katsauksia siihen, mitä tutkimme juuri nyt.
Uusien professoreidemme juhlaluennot alkavat kello 14.30 ja niitä voi seurata mm. striimin kautta.
Luvassa 20 minuutin katsauksia siihen, mitä tutkimme juuri nyt.
Uusien professorien juhlaluennot | Helsingin yliopisto
Helsingin yliopiston professorit pitävät uudessa tehtävässään tervetuliaisluennon. Juhlaluennot järjestetään kahdesti lukuvuodessa lähellä kunkin lukukauden loppua, yleensä touko- ja joulukuussa.
www.helsinki.fi
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Tänään sitä saisi, tiedettä siis! 😍
Uusien professoreidemme juhlaluennot alkavat kello 14.30 ja niitä voi seurata mm. striimin kautta.
Luvassa 20 minuutin katsauksia siihen, mitä tutkimme juuri nyt.
Uusien professoreidemme juhlaluennot alkavat kello 14.30 ja niitä voi seurata mm. striimin kautta.
Luvassa 20 minuutin katsauksia siihen, mitä tutkimme juuri nyt.
🏛️Professori Tomas Roslin pitää juhlaluentonsa ”Lajien vuorovaikutus muuttuvassa maailmassa” keskiviikkona 3.12.2025 klo 16:00 yliopiston päärakennuksessa. #uudetprofessorit #UniversityofHelsinki #biojaympäristötieteellinen
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🏛️Professori Tomas Roslin pitää juhlaluentonsa ”Lajien vuorovaikutus muuttuvassa maailmassa” keskiviikkona 3.12.2025 klo 16:00 yliopiston päärakennuksessa. #uudetprofessorit #UniversityofHelsinki #biojaympäristötieteellinen
In today’s REC Seminar Sammi explained how she studies the connection between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic ecosystems such as the Baltic Sea. 🌊 #EnvStat
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In today’s REC Seminar Sammi explained how she studies the connection between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic ecosystems such as the Baltic Sea. 🌊 #EnvStat
Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? 🐝 Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? 🦗 Miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? 🐜 REC:n professorit Tomas Roslin ja Jarno Vanhatalo vastaavat YLEn luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön kysymyksiin. Kuuntele haastattelu alta!
Kuinka paljon hyönteisiä maailmassa on? | Minna Pyykön maailma
Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? ja miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? Minna Pyykkö kävi Viikissä metsäretkellä terrestrisen ekosysteemiekologian professor...
areena.yle.fi
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? 🐝 Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? 🦗 Miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? 🐜 REC:n professorit Tomas Roslin ja Jarno Vanhatalo vastaavat YLEn luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön kysymyksiin. Kuuntele haastattelu alta!
In today's REC seminar, Perttu Anttonen explained how they study the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions such as the yield, abundance, and phenology of mushrooms, fruit trees, and moths. 🍄🍏 #EnvStat
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In today's REC seminar, Perttu Anttonen explained how they study the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions such as the yield, abundance, and phenology of mushrooms, fruit trees, and moths. 🍄🍏 #EnvStat
The Ecological Society of America just highlighted our article among 5 notable studies recently published in their journals!
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
esa.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Ecological Society of America just highlighted our article among 5 notable studies recently published in their journals!
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
In today's REC Seminar, Natalie van Dis gave a talk titled: "Population buffering effect of vegetation heterogeneity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly depends on the type of climatic perturbation" 🦋
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In today's REC Seminar, Natalie van Dis gave a talk titled: "Population buffering effect of vegetation heterogeneity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly depends on the type of climatic perturbation" 🦋
On Wednesday, we carried out a 2-part experiment on the effects of good food and great company on a community of ecologists and statisticians at the REC Christmas party.
N = 31.
Community structure: Skewed towards postdocs with some professors and other staff.
Initial results: Very promising! 🎄✨
N = 31.
Community structure: Skewed towards postdocs with some professors and other staff.
Initial results: Very promising! 🎄✨
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On Wednesday, we carried out a 2-part experiment on the effects of good food and great company on a community of ecologists and statisticians at the REC Christmas party.
N = 31.
Community structure: Skewed towards postdocs with some professors and other staff.
Initial results: Very promising! 🎄✨
N = 31.
Community structure: Skewed towards postdocs with some professors and other staff.
Initial results: Very promising! 🎄✨
In this week’s REC seminar, Post doc Bastien Parisy discussed the complex relationship between plants and soil microbes, and how both environmental change and plant health shape these interactions. 🌾
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
In this week’s REC seminar, Post doc Bastien Parisy discussed the complex relationship between plants and soil microbes, and how both environmental change and plant health shape these interactions. 🌾
REC Seminar week 42
Michael Rechsteiner introduced us to Intraspecific Variation in Plant Disease Resistance Along Elevational Gradients. 🌱🏔️
Michael Rechsteiner introduced us to Intraspecific Variation in Plant Disease Resistance Along Elevational Gradients. 🌱🏔️
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
REC Seminar week 42
Michael Rechsteiner introduced us to Intraspecific Variation in Plant Disease Resistance Along Elevational Gradients. 🌱🏔️
Michael Rechsteiner introduced us to Intraspecific Variation in Plant Disease Resistance Along Elevational Gradients. 🌱🏔️
REC Seminar week 41
Arthur Rodriguez presented his talk: "Drivers of functional diversity and species contribution to functional diversity in boreal butterflies" 🦋
Arthur Rodriguez presented his talk: "Drivers of functional diversity and species contribution to functional diversity in boreal butterflies" 🦋
October 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
REC Seminar week 41
Arthur Rodriguez presented his talk: "Drivers of functional diversity and species contribution to functional diversity in boreal butterflies" 🦋
Arthur Rodriguez presented his talk: "Drivers of functional diversity and species contribution to functional diversity in boreal butterflies" 🦋