Nerea Abrego Antia

Nerea Abrego Antia

Associate professor
Unit
Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Department / Division
Department of Biological and Environmental Science
Room number
YA C440
Email
nerea.n.abrego-antia@jyu.fi
Mobile
+358505052640
Postal address
Survontie 9

Biography

I am an ecologist broadly interested in community ecology, especially in linking general theory to empirical research. My research therefore focuses on understanding how species-rich communities are structured across temporal, spatial and environmental gradients. For this, I mostly use fungi as model system, but I am also interested in any other species-rich taxonomical group. An important part of my research is devoted to resolving methodological challenges that come along with data on (species-rich) ecological communities. In particular, I am interested in developing empirical methods for efficiently acquiring community data (e.g., novel experimental approaches and semi-automated data collection methodologies), and statistical methods for efficiently analyzing such data (e.g., joint species distribution modelling (JSDM)). Currently I am an Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at JY, and I am a leader of the Predictive Community Ecology (PredCom) research group.

Publications

Publication
2026

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data

Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Ovaskainen, Otso
Winter, Steven
Tikhonov, Gleb
Lauha, Patrik
Lehtiö, Ari
Nokelainen, Ossi
Abrego, Nerea
Aroluoma, Anni
Harrison, Jesse Patrick
Heikkinen, Mikko
Kallio, Aleksi
Koliseva, Anniina
Lehikoinen, Aleksi
Roslin, Tomas
Somervuo, Panu
Souza, Allan Tainá
Tahir, Jemal
Talaskivi, Jussi
Turunen, Alpo
Vancraeyenest, Aurélie
Zuquim, Gabriela
Autto, Hannu
Hänninen, Jari
Inkinen, Jasmin
Kalttopää, Outa
Koskinen, Janne
Kotakorpi, Matti
Kuntze, Kim
Loehr, John
Mutanen, Marko
Oranen, Mikko
Paavola, Riku
Renkonen, Risto
Schiestl-Aalto, Pauliina
Sipilä, Mikko
Sujala, Maija
Sundell, Janne
Tepsa, Saana
Tuominen, Esa-Pekka
Uusitalo, Joni
Vallinmäki, Mikko
Vatka, Emma
Veikkolainen, Silja
Watts, Phillip C.
Dunson, David
Publication
2025

Common to rare transfer learning (CORAL) enables inference and prediction for a quarter million rare Malagasy arthropods

Nature Methods.
Ovaskainen, Otso
Winter, Steven
Tikhonov, Gleb
Abrego, Nerea
Anslan, Sten
deWaard, Jeremy R.
deWaard, Stephanie L.
Fisher, Brian L.
Furneaux, Brendan
Hardwick, Bess
Kerdraon, Deirdre
Pentinsaari, Mikko
Raharinjanahary, Dimby
Rajoelison, Eric Tsiriniaina
Ratnasingham, Sujeevan
Somervuo, Panu
Sones, Jayme E.
Zakharov, Evgeny V.
Hebert, Paul D. N.
Roslin, Tomas
Dunson, David
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Research groups

Research group

Predictive Community Ecology Group

A research group jointly run by Nerea Abrego and Otso Ovaskainen at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science