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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

NEW JOB: How does pelagic-reef connectivity vary across atolls and oceans? 2 year post-doc position based at research-intensive @lancasteruni.bsky.social, and part of the fantastic @lec-reefs.bsky.social team Apply: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #AcademicSky πŸ¦‘ πŸ§ͺ 🌊 🌍

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:

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

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

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 πŸ§ͺ

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

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...

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

Hot off the press! This week's research πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ🌍🌊 🎣 Global small-scale fisheries www.nature.com/articles/s41... πŸͺΈ Diversity shifts on Great Barrier Reef www.nature.com/articles/s41... πŸ’Ž Artisanal mining impacts doi.org/10.1016/j.ex... 🏝️ Reef indicators for island restoration doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

2024 was the warmest year for all continents, except Antarctica and Australasia. In Europe, 2024 exceeded the 1991–2020 average by 1.47Β°C and the previous record from 2020 by 0.28Β°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! 🐦🦠🌱πŸͺΈπŸ  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/...

#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!

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! 🐟πŸͺΈπŸŽ£πŸοΈ go.bsky.app/3m4FFzH πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ🌍

πŸ“’New Paper AlertπŸ“’ (and first chapter of my PhD!) We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs πŸ¦€ 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?

Amazing discovery! A single coral colony of Pavona clavus measuring an astounding 183m in circumference spotted in the Solomon Islands! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just joined Blue Sky! 🌿 X is getting awkward, making it tough to share and connect over science. If you're into nature, science, ecology, climate change, coral reefs, reef fish, and conservation, let’s connect! 🌊