Bex Turner
@bexturner.bsky.social
Research Project Support Officer at Bangor University
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June 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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“Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs”
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“Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs”
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Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Changes in biophysical conditions and energetic resource supply across depths are predicted to promote or limit the abundance of different coral reef benthic groups. However, the degree to which regional differences in biophysical processes govern and ...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📝 Read the full story:
“Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs”
@richardson-le.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
“Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs”
@richardson-le.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
💥🚶♀️We also found evidence of human-disrupted changes to benthic community depth zonation; patterns were inversed across depths and less distinct at populated compared to unpopulated islands within two ecoregions.
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
💥🚶♀️We also found evidence of human-disrupted changes to benthic community depth zonation; patterns were inversed across depths and less distinct at populated compared to unpopulated islands within two ecoregions.
💥🌍At the three ecoregions where depth zonation existed, there was no universal ‘natural’ zonation pattern and the benthic groups most responsible for driving patterns of depth zonation differed across geographies.
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
💥🌍At the three ecoregions where depth zonation existed, there was no universal ‘natural’ zonation pattern and the benthic groups most responsible for driving patterns of depth zonation differed across geographies.
💥🌊We found across our Pacific Ocean study system, depth zonation did not always occur at the taxonomic resolution of our data (broad benthic groups). In fact, we only saw evidence of depth zonation at 3/6 ecoregions.
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
💥🌊We found across our Pacific Ocean study system, depth zonation did not always occur at the taxonomic resolution of our data (broad benthic groups). In fact, we only saw evidence of depth zonation at 3/6 ecoregions.