Our chapter on #climate change is finally out!
This is a #collaborative work involving researchers from institutions in France, Portugal, Spain, USA and Sweden!

👉https://shorturl.at/6SJa6

@noellelucey.bsky.social
@uaveiro.bsky.social
@inrae-france.bsky.social

#ocean
#biodiversity

For anyone that likes weird: I found these eyeballs staring up at me from the mouth of an experimental Menhaden. It's a parasitic tongue-eating isopod that chews the fish tongue off and then implants itself to tongue base to feast for free, for life!

Fascinating to find colonies of #coral species thriving on a historically hypoxic reef tolerate severe low oxygen events much better than their counterparts on nearby reefs. Our paper explains the potential for these findings to guide coral conservation efforts. doi.org/10.3390/ocea...

Check this out for a quick synopsis of the paper, and pics of (just some) of the amazing team that made this work possible: stri.si.edu/story/smothe...

For my first post- a new paper showing how tiny blips of nightly low oxygen - just 6 hours at a time- may have the potential to shape coral reef communities, leading to less diverse, lawn-like states!

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....