International Biodiversity
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International Biodiversity Consultants Ltd (IBC) is an independent biodiversity and ecology specialist consultancy dedicated to conserving and enhancing our environment with experience worldwide. Link: https://linktr.ee/ibioconsultants
ANZ/US study in Biological Conservation shows successful #EcologicalRestoration hinges on ensuring interlinkages with #social and #economic drivers 🌍
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New review highlights the pathway to ecological success
New review highlights the pathway to ecological success
A new study has revealed that successful environmental restoration is dependent on bridging the gap between ecological science and u
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December 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
ANZ/US study in Biological Conservation shows successful #EcologicalRestoration hinges on ensuring interlinkages with #social and #economic drivers 🌍
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Happy Holidays everyone, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, and however you celebrate - have a joyful and peaceful time 🎅 🌟 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy Holidays everyone, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, and however you celebrate - have a joyful and peaceful time 🎅 🌟 🎄
Update on a worldwide soundscapes project to capture global #biodiversity 🌍
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#Accoustics #Ecology #Sounds #Nature
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#Accoustics #Ecology #Sounds #Nature
Compiling soundscapes to study global biodiversity
Compiling soundscapes to study global biodiversity – Read the column on Polytechnique Insights
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December 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Update on a worldwide soundscapes project to capture global #biodiversity 🌍
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#Accoustics #Ecology #Sounds #Nature
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#Accoustics #Ecology #Sounds #Nature
World Bank shares thoughts on its recent machine-based pattern recognition to map distributions for over 600,000 terrestrial and marine species based on millions of occurrence records from the #GlobalBiodiversityInformationFacility #GBIF #Biodiversity #Mapping 🌍
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The 30x30 Biodiversity Challenge: a data-driven pathway for global conservation
New World Bank research maps 600,000 species to identify conservation-critical biodiversity and protection gaps — offering a data-driven pathway for achieving the 30x30 global biodiversity target.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
World Bank shares thoughts on its recent machine-based pattern recognition to map distributions for over 600,000 terrestrial and marine species based on millions of occurrence records from the #GlobalBiodiversityInformationFacility #GBIF #Biodiversity #Mapping 🌍
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blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
eDNA vs. Underwater Visual Census? 🧬🐠
Which is better for reef monitoring? 🤿
This study at Mischief Reef (Spratly Islands) found eDNA detected more species (178 vs 151) showed higher taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity
#eDNA #MarineEcology
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Which is better for reef monitoring? 🤿
This study at Mischief Reef (Spratly Islands) found eDNA detected more species (178 vs 151) showed higher taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity
#eDNA #MarineEcology
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Leveraging environmental DNA monitoring technology to improve biodiversity detection and recognize a broader range of functional organisms in remote coral reef ecosystems: A case study from Mischief R...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a method that extracts species information from environmental samples, thereby aiding in the establishment o…
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December 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
eDNA vs. Underwater Visual Census? 🧬🐠
Which is better for reef monitoring? 🤿
This study at Mischief Reef (Spratly Islands) found eDNA detected more species (178 vs 151) showed higher taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity
#eDNA #MarineEcology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Which is better for reef monitoring? 🤿
This study at Mischief Reef (Spratly Islands) found eDNA detected more species (178 vs 151) showed higher taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity
#eDNA #MarineEcology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How do #insects crawl onto the political agenda? 🦋 🐞
This new research used Germany’s 2019 #ConservationPlan to unpack policy mixes and found that #PolicyEntrepreneurs & #ProblemBrokers are key to coupling interdependent streams for #InsectProtection 🌍
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
This new research used Germany’s 2019 #ConservationPlan to unpack policy mixes and found that #PolicyEntrepreneurs & #ProblemBrokers are key to coupling interdependent streams for #InsectProtection 🌍
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
How do #insects crawl onto the political agenda? 🦋 🐞
This new research used Germany’s 2019 #ConservationPlan to unpack policy mixes and found that #PolicyEntrepreneurs & #ProblemBrokers are key to coupling interdependent streams for #InsectProtection 🌍
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
This new research used Germany’s 2019 #ConservationPlan to unpack policy mixes and found that #PolicyEntrepreneurs & #ProblemBrokers are key to coupling interdependent streams for #InsectProtection 🌍
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
New research is showing 50% of state of Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺 at risk of #EcologicalCollapse despite efforts to increase protected areas 🌍
www.earth.com/news/almost-...
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Almost half of this state is on the brink of ecological collapse
Queensland’s tree loss is outpacing park expansion, revealing major conservation gaps and rising risks for wildlife and local communities.
www.earth.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
New research is showing 50% of state of Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺 at risk of #EcologicalCollapse despite efforts to increase protected areas 🌍
www.earth.com/news/almost-...
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#BatYearReview
We have 18 resident bat species in the UK, 17 of which are known to breed here but 2025 is the year in which the 1500 bat species was scientifically described. #bats 🦇
We have 18 resident bat species in the UK, 17 of which are known to breed here but 2025 is the year in which the 1500 bat species was scientifically described. #bats 🦇
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
#BatYearReview
We have 18 resident bat species in the UK, 17 of which are known to breed here but 2025 is the year in which the 1500 bat species was scientifically described. #bats 🦇
We have 18 resident bat species in the UK, 17 of which are known to breed here but 2025 is the year in which the 1500 bat species was scientifically described. #bats 🦇
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High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100
Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are
key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
However, existing harmonized pr...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
#Amphibians face severe decline, with 41% of species threatened
New data show both worrying losses and hopeful recoveries driven by #habitat protection and better management
Coordinated action and tools like TAL & the KM-GBF are key to securing their future 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New data show both worrying losses and hopeful recoveries driven by #habitat protection and better management
Coordinated action and tools like TAL & the KM-GBF are key to securing their future 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#Amphibians face severe decline, with 41% of species threatened
New data show both worrying losses and hopeful recoveries driven by #habitat protection and better management
Coordinated action and tools like TAL & the KM-GBF are key to securing their future 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New data show both worrying losses and hopeful recoveries driven by #habitat protection and better management
Coordinated action and tools like TAL & the KM-GBF are key to securing their future 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Not biodiversity, but amazing USGS webcam footage from Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park! 🌍
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#Nature #Volcanoes #USGS #Geology
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#Nature #Volcanoes #USGS #Geology
Enormous Lava Fountain Erupts At Kilauea, Destroys Webcam (Dec. 6, 2025)
YouTube video by Big Island Video News
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December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Not biodiversity, but amazing USGS webcam footage from Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park! 🌍
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#Nature #Volcanoes #USGS #Geology
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#Nature #Volcanoes #USGS #Geology
@NASA talks about #biodiversity and #ecosystems on Earth and the benefits of its #LandSat satellite program 🌍
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#RemoteSensing #SatelliteImagery #GIS
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#RemoteSensing #SatelliteImagery #GIS
Ecosystems & Biodiversity - NASA Science
Landsat satellites use visible and infrared light measurements to monitor global ecosystem health since 1972, mapping habitats, tracking forest changes, detecting invasive species, and assessing clima...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
@NASA talks about #biodiversity and #ecosystems on Earth and the benefits of its #LandSat satellite program 🌍
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#RemoteSensing #SatelliteImagery #GIS
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#RemoteSensing #SatelliteImagery #GIS
The #EcologicalCrisis cannot be resolved all the time we are locked into capitalism - Prof. Gerry van Klinken, leading anthropologist speaks in Indonesia 🇮🇩 🌍
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Ecology Expert: Environmental Crisis Impossible to Solve if the Economy Remains Based on Capitalism - UMY
The ecological crisis is considered impossible to find a solution as long as the world remains tied to a capitalist economic model that demands unlimited growth. This sharp criticism was delivered by ...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The #EcologicalCrisis cannot be resolved all the time we are locked into capitalism - Prof. Gerry van Klinken, leading anthropologist speaks in Indonesia 🇮🇩 🌍
www.umy.ac.id/en/pakar-eko...
www.umy.ac.id/en/pakar-eko...
US House of Representatives looks to continue #wildlife crossing funding to help reduce human casualties and wildlife fatalities 🌍
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#BiodiversityAction #Ecology #Mitigation #Roads
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#BiodiversityAction #Ecology #Mitigation #Roads
Bipartisan Wildlife Crossing Legislation Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives — Wildlands Network - Biodiversity Conservation + Wildlife Crossings
As champions of the nationwide effort to make our roads safer for wildlife and people, Representatives Don Beyer from Virginia and Ryan Zinke from Montana came together on the Hill today to intro...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
US House of Representatives looks to continue #wildlife crossing funding to help reduce human casualties and wildlife fatalities 🌍
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#BiodiversityAction #Ecology #Mitigation #Roads
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#BiodiversityAction #Ecology #Mitigation #Roads
King’s College in London reminds us about the #biodiversitycrisis amidst big focus on climate 🌍
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#COP30 #Extinction #NNL
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#COP30 #Extinction #NNL
COP30: Is the biodiversity crisis over?
As the world meets at COP30 to define the steps needed to transition to a Green economy, have we forgotten that the world’s biodiversity is facing the sixth mass extinction?
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
King’s College in London reminds us about the #biodiversitycrisis amidst big focus on climate 🌍
www.kcl.ac.uk/cop30-is-the...
#COP30 #Extinction #NNL
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#COP30 #Extinction #NNL
New field guide by J. Nicholas Ehringer looks at the #Florida wetlands, reefs, forests & coasts revealing their richness, risks, and remarkable #wildlife 🌍
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#FloridaNature #Ecology #Conservation #FieldGuide
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#FloridaNature #Ecology #Conservation #FieldGuide
New Book Offers In-Depth Look at Florida’s Ecology and Environmental Challenges
"Ecology of Florida: A Field Guide to the State's Natural Wonders" by biologist J. Nicholas Ehringer offers an in-depth, accessible exploration of Florida’s d
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December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New field guide by J. Nicholas Ehringer looks at the #Florida wetlands, reefs, forests & coasts revealing their richness, risks, and remarkable #wildlife 🌍
www.financial-news.co.uk/new-book-off...
#FloridaNature #Ecology #Conservation #FieldGuide
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#FloridaNature #Ecology #Conservation #FieldGuide
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Most extinctions today are ‘dark extinctions’….species that vanish before they’re described, monitored, or counted.
No database can record what was never discovered.
Biology is not accounting, and absence of paperwork is not absence of extinction.
news.arizona.edu/news/extinct...
No database can record what was never discovered.
Biology is not accounting, and absence of paperwork is not absence of extinction.
news.arizona.edu/news/extinct...
Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, study shows
The first analysis of recent extinctions across plants and animals finds that, contrary to previous studies, the rate at which many groups of organisms have gone extinct has declined over the last 100...
news.arizona.edu
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Most extinctions today are ‘dark extinctions’….species that vanish before they’re described, monitored, or counted.
No database can record what was never discovered.
Biology is not accounting, and absence of paperwork is not absence of extinction.
news.arizona.edu/news/extinct...
No database can record what was never discovered.
Biology is not accounting, and absence of paperwork is not absence of extinction.
news.arizona.edu/news/extinct...
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Congress has turned the unlimited power of the Federal GOV on the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity
Why? Bc the CBD is opposing a foreign-owned corporation from mining the Boundary Waters Canoe National Wilderness in MN
Old enough to remember when USFWS would be fighting this obscenity…
Why? Bc the CBD is opposing a foreign-owned corporation from mining the Boundary Waters Canoe National Wilderness in MN
Old enough to remember when USFWS would be fighting this obscenity…
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Congress has turned the unlimited power of the Federal GOV on the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity
Why? Bc the CBD is opposing a foreign-owned corporation from mining the Boundary Waters Canoe National Wilderness in MN
Old enough to remember when USFWS would be fighting this obscenity…
Why? Bc the CBD is opposing a foreign-owned corporation from mining the Boundary Waters Canoe National Wilderness in MN
Old enough to remember when USFWS would be fighting this obscenity…
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If you are an International Student, please contact me by no later than Monday 8th December 2025 at 12 midday (UK time) to be considered for the competition.
Feathered Witnesses: Unravelling the Impact of Habitat Loss on Neotropical Avifauna with Stable Isotope Analysis - an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD Opportunity: with me, @dmevans.bsky.social, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor and Luis Fabio Silveiro. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Feathered Witnesses: Unravelling the Impact of Habitat Loss on Neotropical Avifauna with Stable Isotope Analysis
iapetus.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
If you are an International Student, please contact me by no later than Monday 8th December 2025 at 12 midday (UK time) to be considered for the competition.
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The JMS scholarships fund Black UK domiciled students to undertake PhD research at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social in any research area. Anyone interested in projects involving stable isotopes - particularly ecological applications, please get in touch with me.
We’re excited to launch the 5th round of applications for the JMS Scholarship. 12 scholarships are available in any research area which can be supervised at the University.
Register your interest here: forms.office.com/e/k2bkPz4ekB
#PhDScholarship #Scholarships2026 #UKScholarships
Register your interest here: forms.office.com/e/k2bkPz4ekB
#PhDScholarship #Scholarships2026 #UKScholarships
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The JMS scholarships fund Black UK domiciled students to undertake PhD research at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social in any research area. Anyone interested in projects involving stable isotopes - particularly ecological applications, please get in touch with me.
University of Birmingham awards scientists who used AI-driven insights into #biodiversity decline using advanced computing to process/analyse #ecological and chemical data, to uncover how #pollution and #climate extremes interact to threaten vulnerable species 🌍
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/un...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
University of Birmingham awards scientists who used AI-driven insights into #biodiversity decline using advanced computing to process/analyse #ecological and chemical data, to uncover how #pollution and #climate extremes interact to threaten vulnerable species 🌍
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/un...
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What a great initiative, we need more guerrilla #ecologists prepared to change our stark urban concrete landscapes! 🌍
#UrbanEcology #Cityscapes #LandscapeEcology #Wetlands #FreshwaterEcology
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
#UrbanEcology #Cityscapes #LandscapeEcology #Wetlands #FreshwaterEcology
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A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
What a great initiative, we need more guerrilla #ecologists prepared to change our stark urban concrete landscapes! 🌍
#UrbanEcology #Cityscapes #LandscapeEcology #Wetlands #FreshwaterEcology
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
#UrbanEcology #Cityscapes #LandscapeEcology #Wetlands #FreshwaterEcology
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
Californian squirrels go predator mode! 🌍
#FoodWebs #Predators #Adaptation
www.latimes.com/california/s...
#FoodWebs #Predators #Adaptation
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California squirrels are now apparently hunting and eating other rodents
A UC Davis study found a population of Bay Area ground squirrels hunting and eating voles, suggesting the species may be more flexible in its diet than previously thought.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Californian squirrels go predator mode! 🌍
#FoodWebs #Predators #Adaptation
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#FoodWebs #Predators #Adaptation
www.latimes.com/california/s...
#CriticallyEndangered Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) 🐧 vs. Fisheries in South Africa 🇿🇦
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Species in crisis: Critically endangered penguins are directly competing with fishing boats
A new study led by the University of St Andrews has found that critically endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are significantly more likely to forage in the same areas as commercial fish...
phys.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
#CriticallyEndangered Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) 🐧 vs. Fisheries in South Africa 🇿🇦
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Oceans are 3D volumes, not 2D surfaces 🌊
Ignoring depth leads to skewed #biodiversity maps for sub-surface fish (like Gadiformes).
To accurately model #MarineEcosystems, we have to stop looking just at the surface and start looking ⬇️
#MarineBiodiversity #MarineBiology #MarineEcology #DeepSea
Ignoring depth leads to skewed #biodiversity maps for sub-surface fish (like Gadiformes).
To accurately model #MarineEcosystems, we have to stop looking just at the surface and start looking ⬇️
#MarineBiodiversity #MarineBiology #MarineEcology #DeepSea
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Oceans are 3D volumes, not 2D surfaces 🌊
Ignoring depth leads to skewed #biodiversity maps for sub-surface fish (like Gadiformes).
To accurately model #MarineEcosystems, we have to stop looking just at the surface and start looking ⬇️
#MarineBiodiversity #MarineBiology #MarineEcology #DeepSea
Ignoring depth leads to skewed #biodiversity maps for sub-surface fish (like Gadiformes).
To accurately model #MarineEcosystems, we have to stop looking just at the surface and start looking ⬇️
#MarineBiodiversity #MarineBiology #MarineEcology #DeepSea