@lljeannot.bsky.social
PhD candidate at LECReefs 🐠 Looking at seabird nutrient effects on cryptobenthic fish productivity in the Indian Ocean 🏝️
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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@sharkconservationfund @canbiocanarias @saveourseasfoundation @oceantrackingnetwork @wwfnederland @nercscience @deutsche_elasmobrancier_ges
#Angelsharks may be more vulnerable to #ClimateChange than we thought!
Out today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social:
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@lancasteruni.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @ulpgc.es @qmul.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Thrilled to be part of this new paper led by Mayukh Dey & Nature Conservation Foundation, summarizing 25 yrs of 🪸 reef resilience monitoring in Lakshadweep 🏝️ 🇮🇳
We find distinct recovery archetypes shaped by atoll location & coral assemblages
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper out in Proceedings B! 🔊
Seabirds' impacts on reefs extends even to some of its tiniest inhabitants - cryptobenthic reef fishes 🐠
Near colonies, these fishes assimilate seabird nutrients (💩), grow larger 📈 & more at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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New paper 📢 Coral reef depth zonation patterns are not 'universal' and may be disrupted by local human impacts.
We show evidence of spatially dependent effects of depth on benthic community structure across the Pacific Ocean.
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We've had a blast at the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taipei. Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic week! 🐟🐠🦈
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Eeek! Here my new paper where we predicted the distribution of #mesophotic #coral ecosystems in the Chagos Archipelago, using #Maxent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... I can now say that MY ENTIRE PHD IS PUBLISHED! @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social
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🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗
fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
🚨Our paper now out and Open Access in Conservation Biology🚨
🦈Urgent conservation action needed for WIO’s large-bodied fish. Sharks, giant groupers & green humphead parrotfishes face alarming declines in the WIO due to overfishing & climate change. 🦈
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Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠
We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition
Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marine heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent. This incredible underwater time-series from Seychelles has taught us how coral reefs can respond to bleaching - including regime shifts, boom-bust cycles, and now, a regime reversal from algae -> coral.
Out now in Ecology Letters! 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
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...
Feather stable isotopes & dive data reveal links between habitat use & foraging behaviour across 3 populations of red-throated diver during their moult 🪶🌊
Out now in Ecology & Evolution: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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....
📢New Paper Alert📢 (and first chapter of my PhD!)
We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs 🦀
Paper in MEPS: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
You can keep up with the whole LEC REEFS gang via our starter pack! 🐟🪸🎣🏝️
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🚨Excited that the first chapter from my PhD is now out in Marine Biology. Here we show that #lionfish do not show any directional preferences for ambient #soundscapes during diurnal hours.
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Had a blast at #RCUK2024!! Always a pleasure talking about seabirds and small fishes (and inverts this time too! 🦐)
So amazing to be part of a group as vibrant and supportive as @lec-reefs.bsky.social 🐠🌊
Grateful to be invited to share insights on slow, immersive science and place-based ecology at #RCUK2024
Thrilled to see the audience captivated by Manini Bansal’s portrayal of #spawningaggregations and life in #Lakshadweep, showcasing the deep ties between community & reefs.
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We're at #RCUK2024! Ft.
@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social plenary on spawning grouper
@netlab.bsky.social on reef shark residency in El Nino
@lljeannot.bsky.social seabird nutrients and cryptobenthic fish
Visiting researchers Anish Paul on fish predation, Jane Sudrajat & Maserati on coral restoration
New PhD project, based at ZSL, on the migration strategies of Trindade petrels from Round Island, Mauritius!
Fab opportunity to work on an amazing long-term ecological dataset, supervised by Malc Nicol, Emily Sheppard and Ken Norris 🔗⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Honoured to be a plenary speaker at #ReefConsUK this year!
Excited to share insights from a decade of studying & conserving fish #spawningaggregations in #India in my talk titled:
"Site-fidelity: place-based ecology and the case of the squaretail groupers"
