🌿🏗️ Integrating natural and engineered structures can both protect our coasts and promote ecosystem health! Read our latest review and framework for the design of multifunctional shorelines here: 📄🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s444...
Experimental Marine Ecology Laboratory
@emel-nus.bsky.social
Marine lab at NUS that uses novel experimental approaches to research urban marine systems. Led by A/P Peter Todd.
🔬Microplastics are showing up in coral reef sediment & water across Singapore's urbanized reefs (🧵🧴🎣). Our study shows abundance is associated with fine sediments & low water energy, not coral cover, or reef rugosity — sheltered reefs may be most at risk! 🪸 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
🐠🌿Algal turfs on #seawalls provide diverse food sources for fish (🥬🪼🦠). Our analyses show that fish with similar diets use different turf resources, potentially facilitating their co-occurrence on seawalls 🌊🪨 doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
🆕📢 We are excited to present the first multi-matrix study of MP in Singapore’s coral reefs. Our low detected levels show that urban reefs aren’t always MP hotspots! 🪸✨ doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
🪸📐Tilted for survival: Corals thrive at an angle! Our new study shows intertidal coral transplants perform better at 45° & 90° angles compared to horizontal. 🌊 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
🌀🌊🔥 Refuge Trifecta! – this new paper by our PhD student Joel Tan shows how intertidal snails (Nerita undata) seek out pits to escape from heat, waves, and predators.🐌 doi.org/10.1002/oik....
🚨 In a potential first, this new paper found #mangrove crabs (Parasesarma sp.) use external light-focusing facial bands to communicate. 🦀🔬 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
