Just have found out about this SI Louise, will you be considering manuscripts dealing with ecosystem services from cultivated macro algae?

It's a cracking place Dan, serendipitously came across it looking for an oyster bank. A mosaic of really great maerl and dense seagrass, and plenty of clams/tapes and ostrea eilis shell. It is in Cuan Chasla, Conamara, co.Galway. Very shallow at low water like most of these bays,but still subtidal.

Left: Sparse Modiolus modiolus bed in Scapa Flow, Orkney, May 2014.
Right: Native oyster bed in the Galway coast, Ireland, February 2024

Thanks @ruththurstan.bsky.social! delighted to see two of those photos 👇 in yesterday's BBC Wildlife Magazine piece. I am hopeful too, hopeful they'll receive the protection they need as the last pockets of a lost habitat, clinging here in Ireland. We are documenting them also in case we lose them.

Small potatoes compared to others' but at 124 citations mine is a study with UK colleagues on the 1st pass impact by bottom fishing gears on horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus, reefs. We found wholesale reef degradation with up to 90% declines in epifaunal diversity.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Hi Grant, I'd like to be added as well. We use BRUVs for fish use in reef habitats and seaweed farms, in addition to old school, direct recording via diving (photoquadrats and videotransects with DSLRs and GoPros). Dabbing into biotope mapping with fancier drop cameras and acoustics (sidescan).

Muchas gracias Ángel, me alegra formar parte del grupo

Photo is from quite a deep (for seagrass) subtidal bed in southwest Ireland, September 2018 if I remember correctly.

Could I be added to the pack, Angel? Gracias!