Fantastic PhD opportunities with an award-winning and wonderfully supportive supervisor. Would highly recommend!
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at Lancaster University Researching restoration ecology and corporate sustainability with @lec-reefs.bsky.social and @pentlandcentre.bsky.social ๐๐ชธ๐ฑ
Fantastic PhD opportunities with an award-winning and wonderfully supportive supervisor. Would highly recommend!
04.12.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ข Amazing #PDRA opportunities.
Exciting and important questions with a stellar and supportive team, plus cool fieldwork options.
Check it out NOW!
#coralreefs #jobs #restoration #research
๐๐จ-๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ: Tim Lamont, Permas Bagya Maulana, Ines Lange, Muhammad Rizky Madjid, Andi Muh. Agung Pratama, Cicilia Valensi Parrangan, Tries Blandine Razak, Nick Graham
๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ : Many thanks to Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, The FSBI and The Pew Charitable Trusts
๐ Some aspects of a coral reef can be restored quickly, but we should expect that its full complexity and diversity may take a longer time to recover ๐ชธ ๐ ๐ชผ ๐ฆ ๐ก
10.11.2025 20:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฝ๏ธ With less of their preferred dietary corals around, corallivores swam further to find food, holding larger territories with lower population density.
๐กRestored reefs recovered coral cover and some fish populations within 5 years, but not coral diversity and all fish populations.
๐ก Corallivorous fish had ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต recovered to the same extent - there were more corallivores than on degraded reefs, but still only ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ง as many as on healthy reefs.
๐ This is likely to do with coral ๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ - the preferred diets of corallivores were corals that were rare on restored reefs.
We surveyed corals and fishes on recently restored coral reefs (~5 yrs old), and found that...
๐ชธ Coral cover had recovered to approx. healthy levels
๐ Some fish groups (herbivores, planktivores, omnivores) had also recovered to approx. healthy levels
But...
๐จ ๐๐๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ! ๐จ Open access here - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... - and summary below โฌ๏ธ
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Full details at hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... and hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx..., enquiries welcome ๐(2 of 2)
05.11.2025 09:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We're hiring! ๐ฅณ Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. ๐ณ ๐ชธ โป๏ธ (1 of 2)
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Starting a new job felt like a good time to join the BlueSky party! ๐๐ฆ
Excited to be starting a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - look out for job ads soon on ecosystem restoration ๐ชธ๐ด๐ , business sustainability โป๏ธ and corporate accounting ๐งฎ๐. Exciting plans ahead!
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