Episode six, Season two of the Climate Curious podcast with Christina Hicks, 14th July 2021 “It’s as close as 2025 that the nutrients available in West Africa are really going to start dropping off. It’s really urgent,” says Christina...
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From BBC Future Planet, 8 October 2020 by Sophie Hardach Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century invasion of black rats arrived, setting the whole atoll’s ecology hurtling down a different path. By the end of...
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New Internationalist launches a one-year series dedicated to unpicking why hunger persists, 29th September 2020 This new reality for coastal communities across the Global South, was revealed by a study into micronutrients led by...
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From Oceans on Nautilus, 1 August 2020 by Miles W. Griffis These are some of more than 300 species of reef-dwelling fish living in the Chagos Archipelago, which is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a 247,000-square-mile region...
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From Nature Ecology and Evolution, 21 May 2020 by Joseph Aslin The role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning is well understood on the small scale of experimental studies, but has proved challenging to quantify on the scale of natural...
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From Nature Ecology and Evolution, 19 May 2020 by Casey Benkwitt One key to our new paper is that we observed patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem function on remote coral reefs. Although this point is a relatively small part of the manuscript...
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From SciTechDaily, 24 April 2020 by Lancaster University Climate change and warming seas are transforming tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystems. The new study, published...
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From The Conversation, 12 March 2020 by James Robinson and Nick Graham Seychelles and Palau People in the Seychelles eat more seafood than any other country in Africa, averaging 60kg per person per year. But as many seafood species...
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From Functional Ecologists – A Blog for the People Behind the Research, 10 October 2019 by Functional Ecology What’s your paper about? Our paper is about measuring bottom-up and top-down drivers of the ecosystem process of herbivory on...
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From Anthropocene, 17 July 2019 by Brandon Keim A new comparison of reef resilience near islands with and without thriving seabird colonies found that the former may better rebound from bleaching events, when too-warm water temperatures cause...
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From Mongabay, 11 July 2019 by Sahana Ghosh Nutrients in seabird droppings may speed the recovery of reefs following bleaching events, according to a study on the Chagos archipelago in British Indian Ocean Territory. Uniquely positioned, the...
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From eco, 6 December 2018 by Ellis Moloney Using 20 years of fish abundance, catch and habitat data the scientists set out to understand whether coral bleaching has had any effect on the reef fisheries in Seychelles. The study incorporated 45,000...
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