RT @RouskLab: Interested in how microbes control the #biogeochemical cycles and provide the biological feedback to #climatechange? Interest…

Congratulations to @Cassiopaea1, whose presentation on macrophyte-epifauna associations in the Baltic Sea won Olli's prize (honouring Professor Olli Juhani Järvinen (1950-1990) - more information on our website) for best presentation

And that's a wrap on the 33rd LUOVA Symposium! Congratulations to our winners: Olli's prize: Federica Manca (2nd: Sarella Arkkila, 3rd: Camila Souza Beraldo) Best poster: Esmeralda Villon (runners up: Ariadne Kibbelaar and Adrián Colino Barea) 🏆 🏅 🏆

Overall conclusions: genetic adaptation can occur on contemporary timescales, in response to diverse environmental conditions and in various taxa. 🐟 Identifying the targets of selection can facilitate management and conservation actions

RT @WenfeiLiao: So nice to see the vintage @SpringSymposium cups 2019 being used during the symposium this year 😎 The cups were designed fo…

Mikael Englund presents 2D images and 3D footage of dried and pinned museum insect specimens rendered from high resolution micro-CT scans, and demonstrates how these images are used in research #LSS33 🦋🐝🪲

Eszter Megyeri aim to understand how beavers can influence cross-habitat ecological links, focussing on how they affect pied flycatchers at boreal lakes. Insect prey abundance was higher under beaver influence, while measures of breeding performance varied between years #LSS33 🦫

@soma presents their study of the environmental history of wetlands in Helsinki from 19th century to present day, emphasising the significance of integrating conservation efforts into policymaking #LSS33

@Cassiopaea1 uses data on macrophyte-epifauna associations in the Baltic Sea to illustrate how network analysis can help unveil the complexity of these systems and understand how they will respond to on-going and future threats 🦐

Anirban Ganguly plans to study light pollution’s effects on freshwater ecosystems, hoping to improve both our understanding of the impacts of artificial light on these communities and our ability to predict and alleviate larger perturbations of freshwater ecosystems. #LSS33

@SusannaKoivusa1 studies impacts of climate and land use change on plant species Calypso bulbosa in Finland. Climate change has both positive and negative impacts on C. bulbosa, while the impact of land use change is negative; we need to address both in conservation strategies

Joette Crosier investigates novel methods to make reintroduction of threatened wood-inhabiting fungi in Nordic countries more successful and able to be implemented in real conservation projects beyond basic research #LSS33

Sara Leino wants to know whether human-imposed disturbance affects disease in natural plant communities, and aims to unravel interactions between the plant community and its microbiota, accompanied by her focal plant species bilberry 🫐 #LSS33

Geethanjali Mariaselvam tells us about what the black bucks and Bishnoi community in Punjab, India, can tell us about intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for wildlife conservation, exploring ways to restore coexistence of local people with wildlife.

Megha Khanduri presents on consequences of light pollution for threatened species of the Ganga River Basin, India, focussing on a gharial and turtles! Light doesn’t appear to influence nesting site selection in these species, but does affect gharial thermoregulatory behaviour

Kicking off day 3 of the Symposium in the best way possible! With ☕️☕️☕️

RT @duplouy_anne: MSc’s student #Aleksi today presented his on going work on the gut microbiota of #AtlanticSalmon and potential links to d…