Nicolai Roterman
demersal-drifter.bsky.social
Nicolai Roterman
@demersal-drifter.bsky.social
Deep-sea Ecologist & Senior Teaching Fellow at University of Portsmouth.

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They found Shud's mother!
February 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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🔥🌊 The #Mediterranean is undergoing a rapid ecological shift! Our new study in Nature Communications reveals that #MassMortality events have caused a substantial loss of benthic #trait #diversity in just 5 years
Read the full study:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ClimateChange #MarineEcology
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Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events - Nature Communications
The future of marine ecosystem function under global change may be predicted by examining past trends. Here, the authors examine mass marine mortality data from 389 benthic Mediterranean species (1986...
www.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Love me some "Hoff Crab" so named because of the "hairy" bacteria filaments that cover it's "chest" #marinelife
February 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@davidhasselhoff.bsky.social - new research shows your namesake #hoffcrab males have oversized claws - perhaps to compete for mates. Perhaps some parrallels with your baywatch colleagues? www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#deepsea #hydrothermalvents #evolution #ecology
Scientists name crab after David Hasselhoff because of its hairy belly
The 'Hoff Crab' gained its nickname thanks to its hairy chest, prompting comparisons with the Baywatch star.
www.dailymail.co.uk
February 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
research by myself and @joncopley.bsky.social show that #hoffcrabs males, have oversized claws to attract and compete for females - analagous to the giant arms of silverback gorillas #deepsea #hydrothermalvent #yeticrab #univerityofportmsouth: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Yeti claws: Cheliped sexual dimorphism and symmetry in deep-sea yeti crabs (Kiwaidae)
Yeti crabs (Kiwaidae) are deep-sea hydrothermal vent and methane seep dwelling crustaceans that farm chemosynthetic microbes on their bodies. Sexual dimorphism is a common feature of decapod crustacea...
journals.plos.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM