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Coral restoration is only practical when local human pressure levels are low https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.622858v1 Coral reefs are threatened by interacting local (fishing, coastal development) and global (climate c

Coral restoration is only practical when local human pressure levels are low https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.622858v1

Seabird poop is recipe for coral recovery amid climate-driven bleaching On an island chain in the middle of the Indian Ocean lies an invaluable treasure: “white gold.” While it may not be a gem to proposition a prospective fiancée with, it does protect the ocean’s most bi...

💩🪸 Nutrients from seabird poop led to a doubling of coral growth rates and faster recovery after bleaching events, promoting overall resilience.

But islands with invasive rats, which kill birds, saw half the coral growth rate of islands with healthy seabird populations.
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Fertile Grounds: How Seabird "Waste" Benefits Land and Sea “You work on seabird colonies? How can you stand the smell?” That’s a common reaction when I mention my work as a field biologist. While it’s true that

Ever admired a coral reef or gone snorkeling among the mangroves? Thank a seabird!

Learn how these remarkable birds bring the ocean’s nutrients to shore at abcbirds.org/blog/seabird.... 💩🪶

The Amazing Kreskin, Master of Mind Games, Dies at 89 The world's most famous mentalist was a regular on Carson and applied "the power of positive thinking."

One of a kind. #Kreskin “I am a scientist, a researcher in the field of suggestion and ‘extrasensory’ perceptions. I perform what I discover.”

Principal Component Analysis explained visually

In a recent class discussion, Principal Component Analysis came up. I explained it briefly. I later found this very nice PCA explanation/visualization tool: setosa.io/ev/principal... I thought my students would appreciate it and yours might too #statistics #biostatistics

High-Level Functions for Tabulating, Charting and Reporting Survey Data Craft polished tables and plots in Markdown reports. Simply choose whether to treat your data as counts or metrics, and the package will automatically generate well-designed default tables and plots f...

Released v3 of the volkeR package on CRAN 🚀 This version comes with cluster analysis and pca. Have fun!

Don't know volkeR yet? It's a simple way to teach R and a quick way to create labeled reports. Still experimental but already productive.
strohne.github.io/volker/

Robots are helping restore lost seagrass meadows | CNN ReefGen is deploying semi-autonomous underwater seagrass planting machines to help repopulate the habitat that serves as a nursery for many marine species and functions as a carbon sink.

Robots used to plant seagrass off the NC coast in restoration projects
www.cnn.com/climate/reef...

Map of global, OCO-2 based Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in the Mollweide projection for August, 2023. The color scale ranges from beige (low) to dark green (high). Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is a measure of plant productivity. For this time period the highest levels are in the U.S. Midwest corn belt, western India, and Southeast Asia.

New to me vegetation dataset—Global, OCO-2 based Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. globalecology.unh.edu/data/GOSIF.h...

Via Kristin Scholten & Fused docs.fused.io/blog/the-str...

Measuring leaf gas exchange &/or chlorophyll fluorescence? Stop by to test drive the most advanced portable leaf #gasexchange system available! Easy to learn & use! Try the demo & enter to win a t-shirt! bit.ly/CIRAS-4 #AGU24 #plantscience #soilhealth #agriculture @agu.org @agu-scicomm.bsky.social

iNaturalist iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

Are you interested in the natural world but get frustrated not knowing what you just saw? iNaturalist is a great tool that can have you feeling like a pro. With apps allowing for photo identification backed up by real field experts you’ll grow your knowledge quickly!

Hey researchers, did you know there’s a useful new online tool - Sage Policy Profiles - for assessing your impact on policy documents published by governments and NGOs worldwide? policyprofiles.sagepub.com

The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals | Hakai Magazine A unique fjord in Chilean Patagonia gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water corals that typically live thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface.

The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals.
A unique fjord in Chilean Patagonia gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water corals that typically live thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface.
hakaimagazine.com/fe...

Many coral reef scientists are sceptical of restoration attempts. The primary reason is that coral restoration doesn’t actually work at a meaningful scale - and short-term, small-scale outcomes with a few species are inevitably reversed by the next heatwave.

More here: www.cell.com/one-earth/pd...

My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs and are rushing to publish their data on climate change before Trump silences them.

NOAA collaborates with researchers around the world to understand coral bleaching, including on the Great Barrier Reef.

cell.com/current-biol...

The logical conclusion is - we need to reduce “human pressure levels” to save the world’s coral reefs.

www.nature.com/articles/nat...

The Australian summer has barely begun, and sea surface temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef are already dangerously high. www.bom.gov.au/oceanography...

Lots of cool science on corals coming out of the @amglab.bsky.social at the moment, with #SPP2299 colleagues involved

More cool science on corals coming out of the @amglab.bsky.social at the moment, with #SPP2299 colleagues involved

Revealing update on “refuges” on the Great Barrier Reef that no longer exist.

A reminder that when a centuries old coral or tree dies from anthropogenic climate change, it’s not going to be “restored”or replaced for many human generations.

It’s no accident that most restoration attempts focus only on 1 or 2 short-lived, fast-growing species.

Embarrassing.

Greenwashing from the Mars corporation, a major plastic polluter, profiting from tropical deforestation for palm oil and sugar.

Planting 2,500 coral fragments in Hawaii might sound like a lot, until you consider that a single hectare of healthy coral reef typically has a population of about 250,000 corals larger than your thumb.

www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Great new phytoplankton paper from our colleagues at the @exeter.ac.uk Centre for Geography and Environmental Science! Congrats Ella and the team.

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cool!
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