Massive thank you to Victor Bonito and Jone Waitaiti for their work on this paper!

You can read the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

But we also found that multiple filter feeders were found alongside the dominant soft corals, possibly because these filter feeders can feed in between the times when the soft corals feed, which is aligned with periods of high current.

We found that reproduction and habitat were key factors in influencing the soft corals, and that soft corals become more dominant with depth because of reproductive lability, fast growth rates, and increasing suitable habitat associated with filter-feeding.

We can investigate the ecological processes that influence soft corals by analysing their spatial positions. To understand how depth affected the soft corals, we used our spatial analysis across a depth gradient.

We investigate the population ecology of soft corals on the amazing Great White Wall in Fiji. These amazing animals are common on coral reefs, but some of them are resistant to climate change effects meaning they could become more common in the future, so we wanted to know more about their ecology.

Next up is @philvixseboxse.bsky.social former DTE member talking about his PhD work @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social with Alex Liu and colleagues

Next up from DTE is Euan Furness talking about his work considering ecosystem stability over the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition