Delighted to share this work from my PhD, which is now published in Animal Conservation: 🎉 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to my co-authors, and to all the funders who supported this work. #MarineMammals #OffshoreWind #RenewableEnergy #AnimalMovement #Seals

ONE WEEK LEFT to apply 2 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associates; intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 1x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. TWO WEEKS LEFT for the 3rd position on behavioural ecology (2yrs9mth) More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html @lec-reefs.bsky.social

static.klipy.com

Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Will Coral Reef Collapse Make Fish Less Intelligent?

Marine biologist Annabell reveals how coral reef collapse could affect fish intelligence, with insights on what reef degradation means for underwater life.

womenlovetech.com

Paper #3 of the last week (the lab is on fire!) from @lisabe.bsky.social seeing if ickle fish are more tempted by grown up fish than by healthy habitat when things get tough

Sal Keith (she/her)@salkeith.bsky.social · last yr.

PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social

And the 2nd paper from @jamesboon.bsky.social on the same day! This one involved many hours swimming around with a 3D printed fish on a stick, scaring fish. Who said science wasn't fun?!

Sal Keith (she/her)@salkeith.bsky.social · last yr.

Field of view affects damselfish anti-predator responses BUT other metrics of structural complexity do not. Implications for how we measure structure & predict its effects academic.oup.com/beheco/advan... @jamesboon.bsky.social is on fire today! @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social

Congrats @jamesboon.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter out there and powering through the logistics of deep dives!

Sal Keith (she/her)@salkeith.bsky.social · last yr.

New PAPER shows greater depths NOT correlated with more stable communities on Caribbean reefs, contrary to expectations. Led by @jamesboon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social

PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles

Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...

link.springer.com

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Database: biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com