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Beth Woodhead
@bwoodhead.bsky.social
PhD student at Lancaster Environment Centre. Exploring the drivers of Small Pelagic Fisheries 🐟🎣

Interested in marine systems, their conservation and understanding how humans interact with them! 🌊🐙🪸

https://lec-reefs.org/team/beth-woodhead/
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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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
January 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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...
Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications
Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...
www.nature.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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We're thrilled to welcome you to #BES2024! 🎉

Connect with fellow ecologists, and celebrate the innovations that come out of this week 🌿

Don’t forget to tag us and share your favourite moments from the Annual Meeting. We can't wait to see what inspires you! ✨
December 10, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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You can keep up with the whole LEC REEFS gang via our starter pack! 🐟🪸🎣🏝️

go.bsky.app/3m4FFzH

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December 9, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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🚨Excited that the first chapter from my PhD is now out in Marine Biology. Here we show that #lionfish do not show any directional preferences for ambient #soundscapes during diurnal hours.
🔗link.springer.com/article/10.100…
🧵A thread to find out more:
December 4, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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It has been great to host Joe Roman and discuss nutrient subsidies, invasive species, and whale pee! Excellent seminar today, covering his whale research and his superb new book - Eat, Poop , Die!
December 4, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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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
November 30, 2024 at 2:13 PM