Three weeks left to apply for our two PhD positions - come and join @lec-reefs.bsky.social to deliver applied research in restoration ecology and corporate sustainability! 🪸🐟🌳📊
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𝐂𝐨-𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬: Tim Lamont, Permas Bagya Maulana, Ines Lange, Muhammad Rizky Madjid, Andi Muh. Agung Pratama, Cicilia Valensi Parrangan, Tries Blandine Razak, Nick Graham
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠: Many thanks to Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, The FSBI and The Pew Charitable Trusts
📈 Some aspects of a coral reef can be restored quickly, but we should expect that its full complexity and diversity may take a longer time to recover 🪸 🐟 🪼 🦀 🐡
🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫! 🚨 Open access here - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... - and summary below ⬇️
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🍽️ With less of their preferred dietary corals around, corallivores swam further to find food, holding larger territories with lower population density.
💡Restored reefs recovered coral cover and some fish populations within 5 years, but not coral diversity and all fish populations.
Fantastic PhD opportunities with an award-winning and wonderfully supportive supervisor. Would highly recommend!
We surveyed corals and fishes on recently restored coral reefs (~5 yrs old), and found that...
🪸 Coral cover had recovered to approx. healthy levels
🐠 Some fish groups (herbivores, planktivores, omnivores) had also recovered to approx. healthy levels
But...