Evaluating respiration rates of #Paracentrotus lividus fed with different proportions of the invasive alga #Rugulopteryx okamurae

My first #ITRS! Very happy to have spent a fantistic week with colleagues and many friends full of macroalgae, sea urchins, and much more!!

Another experiment started! How fishes are interacting with the invasive macroalgae #Rugulopteryx okamurae?

My first PostDoc first publication! Our study shows long-term negative effects of the invasive macroalga #Rugulopteryx #okamurae on the common sea urchin #Paracentrotus #lividus. Invasion context matters!
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Yesterday filming for @euronews.com to show how we are describing the invasion by #Rugulopteryx #okamurae in S Iberian Peninsula within #BiokamuraeII project

We also tested that the position of the recruits within the patch may influence their survival. Recruits located directly under the adults have lower survival rates than those at the edge or outside the canopy, likely due to adult-recruit intraspecific competition

Through an herbivory exclusion experiment, we observed the low potential of natural recovery of marine forest species in barren areas and the main effect of grazers (less than 48h!!)

This work includes 4 different experiments (3 in the field, 1 in the lab). In the field, we analyzed how the natural context influences the survival of recruits. Highlight: we detected a #MHW which caused a massive mortality of adults and recruits of #Cystoseira foeniculacea

The last chapter of my #PhD is now published in @JPhycology! We explored biotic and abiotic interactions around the initial crucial stages of development of a #marineforest former species in Madeira with implications for future restoration actions. OA link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#PhycologyFriday with these #Cystoseira foeniculacea recruits that we transplanted seven months ago from our lab to an intertidal rockpool in Garajau’s Marine Reserve (#Madeira Island). They survived to a very extreme hot summer!