Macrobehaviour Lab
@macrobehaviour.bsky.social
Uniting #behavioural ecology with #macroecology to gain fundamental insight, & understand + predict rapid responses to #environmental change https://sallykeith.weebly.com/
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Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social
Will Coral Reef Collapse Make Fish Less Intelligent?
Marine biologist Annabell reveals how coral reef collapse could affect fish intelligence, with insights on what reef degradation means for underwater life.
womenlovetech.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social
Paper #3 of the last week (the lab is on fire!) from @lisabe.bsky.social seeing if ickle fish are more tempted by grown up fish than by healthy habitat when things get tough
PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social
Density dependent habitat selection in response to habitat loss in a coral reef fish
Habitat loss triggers a social chain reaction: adult reef fish crowd onto remaining coral, then spill over onto dead coral—and juveniles follow. This study reveals a novel, socially driven ‘bandwagon...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Paper #3 of the last week (the lab is on fire!) from @lisabe.bsky.social seeing if ickle fish are more tempted by grown up fish than by healthy habitat when things get tough
And the 2nd paper from @jamesboon.bsky.social on the same day! This one involved many hours swimming around with a 3D printed fish on a stick, scaring fish. Who said science wasn't fun?!
Field of view affects damselfish anti-predator responses BUT other metrics of structural complexity do not. Implications for how we measure structure & predict its effects academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...
@jamesboon.bsky.social is on fire today! @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social
@jamesboon.bsky.social is on fire today! @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social
Site-level variation in field of view is associated with altered anti-predator responses in farming damselfish
The structure of a habitat affects how animals respond to predators. By recording the anti-predator behaviour of reef fish at sites with different levels o
academic.oup.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
And the 2nd paper from @jamesboon.bsky.social on the same day! This one involved many hours swimming around with a 3D printed fish on a stick, scaring fish. Who said science wasn't fun?!
Congrats @jamesboon.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter out there and powering through the logistics of deep dives!
New PAPER shows greater depths NOT correlated with more stable communities on Caribbean reefs, contrary to expectations. Led by @jamesboon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social
Deeper Caribbean reef fish communities show greater taxonomic and functional change in dominance structure over a nine-year period - Coral Reefs
Fish communities at greater depths on a reef are thought to be less affected by disturbances that more strongly impact shallower areas. As a result, these deeper communities might be expected to show ...
link.springer.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Congrats @jamesboon.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter out there and powering through the logistics of deep dives!
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PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles
Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles
Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...
link.springer.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles
Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles
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🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk