Casey Benkwitt

Deadline FRIDAY! New postdoc position on pelagic reef subsidies. @lancasteruni.bsky.social & @lec-reefs.bsky.social

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24.02.2025 19:57 — 👍 6    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

A bit late but excited to share our new paper exploring how seabird nutrient inputs influence mangrove food webs! 🐦🌿 @entropie-marinelab.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social
Open access: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

05.01.2025 13:18 — 👍 42    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

02.01.2025 13:03 — 👍 287    🔁 99    💬 3    📌 6

Re-connecting ecosystems: Integrating coral reefs into monitoring of island restoration Ecosystems are intrinsically linked, such that management actions in one ecosystem can influence adjacent ecosystems. However, adequate data, and even…

🚨New paper alert! With an amazing group of collaborators, we explore potential indicators for assessing the impacts of island restoration on nearshore tropical marine ecosystems (plus it's my first senior author paper - a mini milestone!). Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

03.01.2025 06:52 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

@hannah-eps.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social

06.01.2025 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Diagram showing links between seabirds and various coral-reef monitoring outcomes.

Check out our new paper!

We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

06.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 43    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0

After many months of social media absence, I'm finally ready to start posting over here. So here's a (re-)introduction:

👋 Hi, I'm a marine ecologist who mostly researches coral-reef fishes. My current work examines how seabird nutrients influence coral-reef ecology and resilience 🐦💩🪸🪸🐠🐟

06.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0