Sarah Jane Ackland
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Sarah Jane Ackland
@sjackland.bsky.social
The world is your oyster 🌊🦞
PhD marine invasion biology | Robinson Lab | Stellenbosch University
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Summer heatwaves pose a greater threat than winter cold spells for an African temperate whelk. Finally getting some of our extreme thermal event work out!

Great work @sjackland.bsky.social

#marineheatwaves

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A temperate whelk overcomes winter cold spells but not summer heatwaves
Climate change has increased the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme thermal events. Our understanding of how marine heatwaves (MHWs) and marine cold spells (MCSs) affect coastal species ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Reposted by Sarah Jane Ackland
Thank you for all the incredible work you, Tammy and the team at @suhealthsci.bsky.social do on marine invasive species and their impact in South Africa. I look forward to working together soon again! @sjackland.bsky.social thanks for leading the charge!
Excited to share this collaborative work with SANParks—though less thrilled to report another marine bioinvasion in a South African MPA.

Huge thanks to lead author @sjackland.bsky.social. Read our paper here: doi.org/10.3391/bir....
April 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by Sarah Jane Ackland
Using citizen science to unlock data about under studied African MPAs. Our new paper is hot off the press!

neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1492...

#bioinvasions @sjackland.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM