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Daniel Gómez-Gras

@danigomezgras.bsky.social

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Marine Ecologist. 🤿🪸 Postdoctoral researcher at @medrecover.bsky.social (@ub.edu & @irbio-ub.bsky.social). Marine biodiversity | Global change | Marine heatwaves | Coral ecosystems 🪸 Data manager for Class Octocorallia at www.coraltraits.com

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Jan 16

Since 2016, the Coral Trait Database (www.coraltraits.org) has contributed to the advancement of coral reef science globally. However, data on #octocorals —key components of many coral ecosystems— was missing... until NOW. 🎉 The Octocoral Trait Database is here! 👇
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The Octocoral Trait Database: a global database of trait information for octocoral species

Scientific Data - The Octocoral Trait Database: a global database of trait information for octocoral species

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Aug 6

You can read the editorial here 👇:

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@polcapdevila.bsky.social
@cristinalinares.bsky.social

Novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology: Identifying and addressing knowledge gaps in ecological impacts

As the climate crisis unfolds, marine heatwaves (MHWs), defined as discrete periods of anomalously high seawater temperatures, are emerging as one of the most pervasive threats to marine biodiversi...

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Aug 6

In this SF, published across the @animalecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social y.social and @funecology.bsky.social we present a collection of 13 studies that address some of the most pressing knowledge gaps in MHW ecology. 🌊🔥👇

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Daniel Bruno @apetijo.bsky.social · Jul 28

Tras hablar del impacto de los incendios submarinos, hoy viajamos con @danigomezgras.bsky.social
a mares más lejanos🌊, para visitar impresionantes arrecifes tropicales y conocer la amenaza del blanqueamiento de corales, que pone en riesgo su supervivencia 🌡️ ecomandanga.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/o...

Olas de calor marinas y su impacto en arrecifes: el blanqueamiento de los corales

La semana pasada, Daniel Gómez Gras (Universidad de Barcelona) nos contaba el impacto de las cada vez más frecuentes olas de calor marinas en el coralígeno Mediterráneo. Lamentablemente, este fenóm…

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Jul 26

It has been a pleasure having you in the lab! 😊

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Claudia Campanini (aka Balt) @claubaltcampanini.bsky.social · Jul 25

My research stay at @biologiaub.bsky.social is over and I could not be more satisfied and grateful for these 5 months.
Thanks to the great mentorship of @danigomezgras.bsky.social and @cristinalinares.bsky.social, and the warm welcome of @medrecover.bsky.social's team.
Fins a la pròxima, Barna!

Diving team posing for a group picture from the zodiac

Group picture of the MedRecover research group

Underwater picture By Yanis Zentner of a coralligenous wall dominated by the sea fan Paramuricea clavata shot in Medes Islands

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Daniel Bruno @apetijo.bsky.social · Jul 23

¿Has oído alguna vez hablar de los #incendios submarinos?🔥🌊

Hoy, @danigomezgras.bsky.social de
@medrecover.bsky.social nos explica las consecuencias ecológicas y el impacto de este fenómeno, cada vez más intenso y frecuente, en los corales mediterráneos 🌡️

ecomandanga.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/i...

Incendios submarinos: las olas de calor son un infierno para los corales mediterráneos

Cantaba Mecano en los años 90 que «Hawaii y Bombay son dos paraísos». Lo que no podía imaginar Ana Torroja en aquel entonces es que, en el contexto actual de crisis climática, hasta el paraíso pued…

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Jul 20

Yo también me apunto, un saludo!

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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · Apr 24

Comenzamos este taller sobre el coralígeno recordando a Kike Ballesteros y su gran labor en el estudio de este ecosistema emblemático. Su trabajo siempre será una inspiración para todos.

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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · Apr 22

🌊🔬¡Recuerda, este jueves tenemos el taller online sobre la conservación del coralígeno en el Mediterráneo!
📅 [24/04/2025]
⌚[10:00](CET)
📄 Consulta la agenda: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
🔗 Regístrate: docs.google.com/forms/d/11Xn...
@icmcsic.bsky.social @ub.edu @irbio-ub.bsky.social

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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · Apr 3

🌊¡No te pierdas el próximo taller online sobre la conservación del coralígeno en el Mediterráneo!
📅 24/04/2025
🕒 10h (CET)
📍 Acceso como bajo registro
📄 Agenda: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
🔗 Regístrate: docs.google.com/forms/d/11Xn... @icmcsic.bsky.social @ub.edu @irbio-ub.bsky.social

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Yanis Zentner @yzentner.bsky.social · Mar 17

🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery?

🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition?

We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇

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Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef

After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.

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Dan Smale @dansmale1.bsky.social · Feb 28

Summertime marine heatwaves (MHWs) in 2023/2024 were unprecedented and had wide-ranging biological, physical and societal impacts. Need to develop better response plans and adaptation/intervention approaches as MHWs intensify under climate change. New ms in Nat CC: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ocean extremes as a stress test for marine ecosystems and society - Nature Climate Change

In 2023–2024, widespread marine heatwaves associated with record ocean temperatures impacted ocean processes, marine species, ecosystems and coastal communities, with economic consequences. Despite wa...

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 26

Of course, incredible job! ;)

Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 26

Excited to be attending the thesis dissertation of @cgalobart.bsky.social!! She did a great job exploring macroalgal forest restoration techniques and their success! 🌿🪸 @medrecover.bsky.social @marineforests.bsky.social

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Claudia Campanini (aka Balt) @claubaltcampanini.bsky.social · Feb 24

Professional update: I am now a visiting PhD student within @medrecover.bsky.social research group at Universidad de Barcelona @ub.edu
Thanks to Prof. Cristina Linares, @danigomezgras.bsky.social, & @polcapdevila.bsky.social who believed in my proposal and all lab members for their warm welcome!
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Photoof the entrance of the "Edifici Margalef" (Margalef building) of the University of Barcelona.

Top view from the last floor of the Margalef building of the hall in the groundfloor

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Jérémy Carlot @jerem-carlot.bsky.social · Feb 13

Our last article on Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events is out in
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵

nature.com/articles/s41...

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 13

@irbio-ub.bsky.social @medrecover.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 13

This work was carried out as part of the COAST Biodiversa+ project and was made possible through the collective effort of the team: #CristinaLinares, @jbaptiste-ledoux.bsky.social , #TeresaAmaro, #AndreaGori, #NuriaViladrich, and #PaulaJiménez.

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 13

The studied assemblages were mostly dominated by #gorgonians and #blackcorals. They were structurally complex, functionally diverse and well-preserved, harboring some of the #densest black coral populations reported to date.

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 13

Paper alert! 🚨 We provide a first characterization of upper mesophotic coral assemblages in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde (Atlantic Ocean). 👇
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kbenI7ED3...

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 12

Gràciess!

Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 12

Gràcies!

Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 11

Thanks :)

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Feb 11

Exciting news! I’m thrilled to share that my MSCA Marie Curie postdoc proposal has been granted! I’ll be joining the macroscopelab.com at MARE/ @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
to study the functional vulnerability of global coral fauna. Looking forward to this new chapter!

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