Happy to share our new paper in Global Change Biology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Can marine protected areas buffer red gorgonian populations against recurrent marine heatwaves? 👇

🎉 New paper out in Oikos! 🪸 By revisiting a Mediterranean coralligenous assemblage 14 years after an extreme storm, we found that recovery unfolded against a shifting baseline, making it difficult to disentangle the legacy of the storm from the effects of a warming ocean. doi/10.1002/oik.11571

Pol Capdevila@polcapdevila.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Paper Alert🚨 Very proud of @yzentner.bsky.social last paper published in @oikosjournal.bsky.social. We show that functional recovery is not attained in Mediterranean octocoral communities after 14 years, associated with increasing temperatures. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🌊¡No te pierdas el próximo taller online sobre la conservación del coralígeno en el Mediterráneo! 📅 24/04/2025 🕒 10h (CET) 📍 Acceso como bajo registro 📄 Agenda: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🔗 Regístrate: docs.google.com/forms/d/11Xn... @icmcsic.bsky.social @ub.edu @irbio-ub.bsky.social

🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery? 🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition? We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef

After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.

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Since 2016, the Coral Trait Database (www.coraltraits.org) has contributed to the advancement of coral reef science globally. However, data on #octocorals —key components of many coral ecosystems— was missing... until NOW. 🎉 The Octocoral Trait Database is here! 👇 rdcu.be/d6qpy

The Octocoral Trait Database: a global database of trait information for octocoral species

Scientific Data - The Octocoral Trait Database: a global database of trait information for octocoral species

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