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 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 Ecology and Evolution, 30 November 2018, by James Robinson A marine heatwave that turned coral reefs into seaweed fields has made reef fisheries less predictable and more productive, impacting small-scale fishers over 20 years later. In our...
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From Nautilus, 29 October, 2016 by Claudia Gieb So what do you do if, one day, climate change makes these marine mammals disappear—say, because of rising temperatures, which kill off their food supply? Do you keep going back to the same places...
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As the planet heats up so do the world’s waters, and that means more coral bleaching. But now a new study reveals that some corals can bounce back from such near death experiences.
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