"What is it that you study?", you may ask. Here's a video explaining my current project on the potential flexibility of animals and plants to find matching partners when the environment changes.

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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.

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❗ New paper ❗

🐤 Bird communities change differently depending on distance to protected area and habitat type, indicating edge effects in climate change responses. This work was part of Leena Hintsanen's PhD thesis 👏

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📸 @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

Step #6 When finalizing the response letter, add line numbers to the responses indicating where in the main text you have made changes. Thanks to Step #5, the lines are easy to find based on the comments indicating reviewer comment numbers!

Step #5 Edit the main text in track-changes mode to remember what's been done. A time-saving tip: add a comment to each edit in the text specifying which numbered reviewer comment it tackles.

Step #2 Color code the comments to get an overview of the work ahead:

🟢 = easy typo fixing and phrasing changes
🟡 = things that are straigthforward but require time/rerunning analyses
🔴 = tricky things that require a lot of thinking/changing the core elements of the paper

Step #1 As the first draft of the response letter, copy the full review into a document, separate individual detailed comments and number them. Then, add below each comment a numbered response line. This makes it easier to link the responses to each other.

Reiterating a post from the past:

Revising a paper can be a nightmare. How to go about it? In a 🧵 below, I present my stepwise recipe for paper revisions, I hope it's useful to others!

Would also be great to learn new tricks to make the process even smoother so please share your recipe! 📜

Research news from last year:

🐦🐤🐧🦜🦤🦃🦅🦢🦆🦉🦩🦚🕊️🐓
Bird communities with high species richness and a variety of functional properties are better safeguarded against climate change impacts: helsinki.fi/en/news/clim...

Pic: @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

🐦 communities also shift slower than the climate warms, causing climatic debt.

➡️local climatic conditions may become unsuitable for some birds that simultaneously can't shift to better suited areas as the obstacles block the way. Such communities may face extinction.

More research news from earlier this year:

What does climate change do to ecological communities?
2/3 of European 🐦 communities shifted to cooler areas during the last 30 years and large obstacles, e.g. 🏔️s & 🌊s, guided these shifts.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pic by @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

Recirculating some of my research news from this year here:

Most birds can't tolerate the most intense human pressures (but some really can, see pic ⬇️). Human tolerance trait is now available for >6,000 species 🐦‍⬛🦆🦢🦉🦩🦃🦜🦅
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I'm a community ecologist trying to understand what makes species’ communities and interaction networks as they are and how they will change under the ever-intensifying anthropogenic pressures. Find out more at: emmaliinamarjakangas.github.io