Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Are you interested in large scale biodiversity patterns, conservation, ecology, ecosystem functions... So you should consider connecting with researchers within the Global Ecology starter pack (DM @global-ecology.bsky.social if you want to be added).

<1 month to apply! Want to learn how to make the most of ecological data using supercomputers? Check out the projects. Our is especially cool ;) "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" www.exageo.org/phd-student-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social

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NASA data shows that the rate of global warming over the past 15 years was about 9 times as high as between 1880 and 1970! There is more and more evidence that the rate of global warming has doubled since 2010! Visualization by the great Makiko Sato:

‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds #Climate

‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds

More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease

theguardian.com

Fish communities on the Great Barrier Reef have significantly changed since the 1990s, with shifts in species diversity linked to coral composition changes, highlighting the impact of climate change and human pressures. doi.org/g8znds

Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals.

phys.org

Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, a study in Nature Communications finds that shifts in coral composition correlate more strongly with reef fish diversity changes than fluctuations in coral cover. https://go.nature.com/4g7mKIm 🧪

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the #GreatBarrierReef doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications

Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

doi.org

Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠 We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications

Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

nature.com

Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef: The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the 1990s. #GreatBarrierReef #FishDiversity #ClimateChangeImpact #CoralBleaching #EarthDotCom #Earth

Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef

The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the 1990s.

earth.com

Hot off the press! This week's research 🦑🧪🌍🌊 🎣 Global small-scale fisheries www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪸 Diversity shifts on Great Barrier Reef www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💎 Artisanal mining impacts doi.org/10.1016/j.ex... 🏝️ Reef indicators for island restoration doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature

A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...

nature.com

Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef @earthdotcom.bsky.social www.earth.com/news/fish-di...

Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef

The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the 1990s.

earth.com

3️⃣ La vida als anys 90: la biodiversitat de la Gran Barrera de Corall ha "canviat significativament": Un nou estudi revela que les comunitats de peixos de la Gran Barrera de Corall avui són substancialment diferents de les dels anys 90. 🌊🐠

Another coveage by oceanographic magazine: "Life in the '90s: Barrier Reef biodiversity has 'shifted significantly'" oceanographicmagazine.com/news/life-in...

Life in the '90s: Barrier Reef biodiversity has 'shifted significantly' - Oceanographic

Fish communities living on the Great Barrier Reef today are "substantially different" to those that lived there in the 1990s, new study finds

oceanographicmagazine.com

A short story of our paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social AIMS: Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns www.aims.gov.au/information-...

CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/great-b... #coralreefs #coralreefdiversity #greatbarrierreef #coralscience #research #coralresearch #reeffish #coralreefecology #marinescience #marinebiology

Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns - Lancaster University

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study, led by researchers at Lancaster University, reveals.

lancaster.ac.uk

Congrats @reefjav.bsky.social on a beast of a paper showing that coral composition, not cover, drives reef fish assemblage change over space & time. 28yrs of #AIMS data over entire #GBR www.nature.com/articles/s41... Not bad for 1st paper of PhD 🤯 @lec-reefs.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications

Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

nature.com

Big paper drop by @reefjav.bsky.social ! Reef fish communities are undergoing substantial change on the Great Barrier Reef, with latitude and through time. Changing coral composition, not simply coral cover, a major driver. @lec-reefs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications

Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

nature.com

Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠 We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications

Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

nature.com

2024 was the warmest year for all continents, except Antarctica and Australasia. In Europe, 2024 exceeded the 1991–2020 average by 1.47°C and the previous record from 2020 by 0.28°C. Read the full Global Climate Highlights 2024 here: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz #C3S #GCH2024

Check out our new paper! We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching

Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

#PhD opportunity on "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" with me, @chris-nemeth.bsky.social Chris Cooney (U Sheff) & David Roy (UKCEH) thru new @exageo-dla.bsky.social based at Lancaster Uni www.exageo.org/phd-student-...

For anyone newly interested in #behaviour and/or #macroecology since #BES2024, check out our paper that outlines #Macrobehaviour - a merger of the two to address challenges of rapid env change www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Let's grow this community!

Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa

We explore how integrating behavioural ecology and macroecology can provide fundamental new insight into both fields, with particular relevance for understanding ecological responses to rapid environmental change. We outline the field of macrobehaviour, which aims to unite these disciplines explicitly, and highlight examples of research in this space. Macrobehaviour can be envisaged as a spectrum, where behavioural ecologists and macroecologists use new data and borrow tools and approaches from one another. At the heart of this spectrum, interdisciplinary research considers how selection in the context of large-scale factors can lead to systematic patterns in behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa, and in turn, influence macroecological patterns and processes. Macrobehaviour has the potential to enhance forecasts of future biodiversity change.

cell.com

Newly published parrotfish research in @plos.bsky.social. We used the most extensive reef system in the Gulf of Mexico – Alacranes Reef- as a study model to show that parrotfish functions are strongly linked to habitat structure and composition. Link: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

You can keep up with the whole LEC REEFS gang via our starter pack! 🐟🪸🎣🏝️ go.bsky.app/3m4FFzH 🦑🧪🌍

📢New Paper Alert📢 (and first chapter of my PhD!) We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs 🦀 Paper in MEPS: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

The amazing @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social presents her work on squaretail grouper in Lakshadweep archipelago. 🐟First recorded aggregation in India 🐟Highest densities in the world 🐟 Emerging fisheries & fish trade 🐟 80% population decline 🐟 Less aggression, more fear #RCUK2024

Ain't nice this nudibranch I found in Chagos Archipelago? 🌊 Someone can guess the specie?