Tim Lamont

Three weeks left to apply for our two PhD positions - come and join @lec-reefs.bsky.social to deliver applied research in restoration ecology and corporate sustainability! 🪸🐟🌳📊
Please do share amongst your networks, and I'm happy to meet with potential candidates to discuss the position further 👍

🚨 Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! 🚨

🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fantastic PhD opportunities with an award-winning and wonderfully supportive supervisor. Would highly recommend!

📢 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

𝐂𝐨-𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬: Tim Lamont, Permas Bagya Maulana, Ines Lange, Muhammad Rizky Madjid, Andi Muh. Agung Pratama, Cicilia Valensi Parrangan, Tries Blandine Razak, Nick Graham

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠: Many thanks to Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, The FSBI and The Pew Charitable Trusts

📈 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 🪸 🐟 🪼 🦀 🐡

🍽️ With less of their preferred dietary corals around, corallivores swam further to find food, holding larger territories with lower population density.

💡Restored reefs recovered coral cover and some fish populations within 5 years, but not coral diversity and all fish populations.

🐡 Corallivorous fish had 𝘯𝘰𝘵 recovered to the same extent - there were more corallivores than on degraded reefs, but still only 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 as many as on healthy reefs.

📊 This is likely to do with coral 𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 - 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...

🪸 Coral cover had recovered to approx. healthy levels

🐠 Some fish groups (herbivores, planktivores, omnivores) had also recovered to approx. healthy levels

But...

🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫! 🚨 Open access here - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... - and summary below ⬇️

@lec-reefs.bsky.social

Full details at hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... and hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx..., enquiries welcome 👍(2 of 2)

We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Lancaster’s world-class researchers will turn bold ideas into innovations to improve lives - Lancaster University Three Lancaster University researchers have been awarded Future Leaders Fellowships, through a flagship scheme by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Starting a new job felt like a good time to join the BlueSky party! 🙌🦋

Excited to be starting a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - look out for job ads soon on ecosystem restoration 🪸🌴🐠, business sustainability ♻️ and corporate accounting 🧮📊. Exciting plans ahead!

www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...