Scientists have developed a scalable “holdfast-graft” method to reseed Tasmania’s lost giant kelp forests. By binding hatchery kelp to other seaweed stubs, divers achieved 40× higher survival. Within a year, the grafted kelp began reproducing—kick-starting self-sustaining forests. #GreatSouthernReef

A Trans-Tasman collaboration between IMAS & @aucklanduni.bsky.social researchers shows Longspined Sea Urchins are a huge threat to NE #NewZealand marine ecosystems. And as the region is at lower latitudes, the impact there could outstrip what we've seen in #Tasmania.

Study: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Super excited that our new paper is out today in
@pnas.org. Title: Lateral jaw motion in fish expands the functional repertoire of vertebrates and underpins the success of a dominant herbivore lineage.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...

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Interested in quantifying energy and nutrient fluxes in coral reef ecosystems (and beyond)? We have just the right paper for you, reviewing & highlighting the most exciting approaches to getting a handle on elemental fluxes in the most diverse marine ecosystem.

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

🦑🧪 Came across a paper today that examines the gut contents of stranded bottlenose dolphins in Western Australia... turns out those suckers are FEASTING on gobies, with 82% of prey identified from the stomach contents being gobies. Mind = blown 🤯

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ecology

We tagged 50 Goliath Groupers and tracked them for a decade. Turns out they don't move all that much, except when it's time to spawn! Most fish (>90%) returned to the same spawning site year after year and showed up predictably with the new moon in August & Septmber. www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/8/...

New PhD opportunity studying cryptobenthic reef fishes, funded through the INSPIRE DTP
@unisouthampton
with cosupervision at
@NHM_London
- looking for an excellent student to work on the distribution and functions of the tiniest fish in the sea! findaphd.com/phds/project...

Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....