Intact core mesocosms demonstrate effects of temperature and salinity on nitrogen cycling and microbial community structure under pulse and press disturbances aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Intact core mesocosms demonstrate effects of temperature and salinity on nitrogen cycling and microbial community structure under pulse and press disturbances aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
How do you get all the dried biomass from 36 #saltmarsh plant mesocosms home from a field site hundreds of miles away (along with with frozen water samples and sediment)? A lot of drying, sorting into paper bags, packing into duffels and coolers, and schlepping through airports..., but they made it!
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How do you get all the dried biomass from 36 #saltmarsh plant mesocosms home from a field site hundreds of miles away (along with with frozen water samples and sediment)? A lot of drying, sorting into paper bags, packing into duffels and coolers, and schlepping through airports..., but they made it!
🚨🚨 New paper from my PhD is out in Freshwater Biology!
We tracked macroinvertebrate dispersal using stable isotopes and mesocosms — showing how disconnected pools act as refuges and stepping stones for community recovery.
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We tracked macroinvertebrate dispersal using stable isotopes and mesocosms — showing how disconnected pools act as refuges and stepping stones for community recovery.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🚨🚨 New paper from my PhD is out in Freshwater Biology!
We tracked macroinvertebrate dispersal using stable isotopes and mesocosms — showing how disconnected pools act as refuges and stepping stones for community recovery.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
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We tracked macroinvertebrate dispersal using stable isotopes and mesocosms — showing how disconnected pools act as refuges and stepping stones for community recovery.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
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We are collaborating with Goncalo Rosa from IMIB Biodiversity Research Institute (CSIC) and Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Julie Dogger from University of Amsterdam to see if treating mesocosms with antifungals can boosts survival of lemur leaf frogs.
#amphibianresilience
#amphibianresilience
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We are collaborating with Goncalo Rosa from IMIB Biodiversity Research Institute (CSIC) and Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Julie Dogger from University of Amsterdam to see if treating mesocosms with antifungals can boosts survival of lemur leaf frogs.
#amphibianresilience
#amphibianresilience
Katie Brenninger, a @santarosajc.bsky.social student, spent a summer interning in the CHANGE Lab at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, gaining hands-on experience with seagrass mesocosms, new lab technologies, and the challenges of keeping research tanks clean: marinescience.ucdavis.edu/blog/seagras...
A Seagrass Summer
I am a second-year Environmental Science major at Santa Rosa Junior College and will be transferring to UC Santa Cruz this fall to complete my undergraduate degree. I spent my summer at the Bodega Mar...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Katie Brenninger, a @santarosajc.bsky.social student, spent a summer interning in the CHANGE Lab at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, gaining hands-on experience with seagrass mesocosms, new lab technologies, and the challenges of keeping research tanks clean: marinescience.ucdavis.edu/blog/seagras...
Lab meeting field trip this morning! The undergrads explored the field site. I’m thrilled to work with a great team of ‘28s who will be on campus for sophomore summer next year and can expand their lab research to the mesocosms! @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social #fieldworkfun
September 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Lab meeting field trip this morning! The undergrads explored the field site. I’m thrilled to work with a great team of ‘28s who will be on campus for sophomore summer next year and can expand their lab research to the mesocosms! @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social #fieldworkfun
Huge welcome to Gabriela Perna, from University of Edinburgh! Together with Prof. Sinéad Collins, she examines how light levels affect the survival and growth of #diatoms in artificial sea-ice vs. water, using small ice #mesocosms. 🧪🦑🌊❄️
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social #UMF
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social #UMF
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Huge welcome to Gabriela Perna, from University of Edinburgh! Together with Prof. Sinéad Collins, she examines how light levels affect the survival and growth of #diatoms in artificial sea-ice vs. water, using small ice #mesocosms. 🧪🦑🌊❄️
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social #UMF
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social #UMF
Excited to start my PhD at @bristoluni.bsky.social as part of the @ercrefresh.bsky.social project under Penny Johnes, Dan Read (UKCEH) and Martin Genner!
I'll be exploring how key microorganisms utilise and transform dissolved organic matter. Looking forward to starting with the team next week!
I'll be exploring how key microorganisms utilise and transform dissolved organic matter. Looking forward to starting with the team next week!
September 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excited to start my PhD at @bristoluni.bsky.social as part of the @ercrefresh.bsky.social project under Penny Johnes, Dan Read (UKCEH) and Martin Genner!
I'll be exploring how key microorganisms utilise and transform dissolved organic matter. Looking forward to starting with the team next week!
I'll be exploring how key microorganisms utilise and transform dissolved organic matter. Looking forward to starting with the team next week!
Limn 12 Spotlight Series
Javier Lezaun compares aquatic mesocosms to the larger global implications of climate change.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/midd...
Javier Lezaun compares aquatic mesocosms to the larger global implications of climate change.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/midd...
September 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Limn 12 Spotlight Series
Javier Lezaun compares aquatic mesocosms to the larger global implications of climate change.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/midd...
Javier Lezaun compares aquatic mesocosms to the larger global implications of climate change.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/midd...
Sustainable oyster farming can be great. If done correctly, it can help mitigate storm surges, but as this study suggests - it's also a powerful carbon removal system. 🧪🌊
Link: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Link: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
September 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Sustainable oyster farming can be great. If done correctly, it can help mitigate storm surges, but as this study suggests - it's also a powerful carbon removal system. 🧪🌊
Link: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Link: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Daily temperature variation explains zooplankton community differences in freshwater mesocosms recovering from a natural drought. James R. Hubbard, Dania Albini & Michelle C. Jackson
Daily temperature variation explains zooplankton community differences in freshwater mesocosms recovering from a natural drought
Drought events are typically studied as a single stressor. However, multiple environmental variables are altered under drought conditions, including water level and daily temperature variation. Here,...
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Daily temperature variation explains zooplankton community differences in freshwater mesocosms recovering from a natural drought. James R. Hubbard, Dania Albini & Michelle C. Jackson
New Mesocosm Study in Gran Canaria: Researchers Investigate Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Over the coming weeks, international researchers led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel will conduct an experiment in closed marine tan...
weiterlesen
Over the coming weeks, international researchers led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel will conduct an experiment in closed marine tan...
weiterlesen
September 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New Mesocosm Study in Gran Canaria: Researchers Investigate Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Over the coming weeks, international researchers led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel will conduct an experiment in closed marine tan...
weiterlesen
Over the coming weeks, international researchers led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel will conduct an experiment in closed marine tan...
weiterlesen
📰Published📰Climate change affects litter decomposition in the benthic and hyporheic zones of stream mesocosms🛶
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Climate change affects litter decomposition in the benthic and hyporheic zones of stream mesocosms
Romy Wild, Juergen Geist This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. The decomposition of leaf litter is an important process in stream ecosys…
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September 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📰Published📰Climate change affects litter decomposition in the benthic and hyporheic zones of stream mesocosms🛶
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The mesocosms each have electricity inside so we can capture video live in real time in addition to behavior screens using portable behavior rigs we’ve built to quantify behavior in nature.
September 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The mesocosms each have electricity inside so we can capture video live in real time in addition to behavior screens using portable behavior rigs we’ve built to quantify behavior in nature.
What a summer it’s been! We built our Drosophila experimental evolution mesocosms and are running our first experiment! I’m ecstatic to be able to pair our study genetic and neural mechanisms of behavior evolution in the lab with how behaviors evolve in nature!
September 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
What a summer it’s been! We built our Drosophila experimental evolution mesocosms and are running our first experiment! I’m ecstatic to be able to pair our study genetic and neural mechanisms of behavior evolution in the lab with how behaviors evolve in nature!
We will use these little eucalyptus in mesocosms inside our large ecotron mimicking Brazilian climatic conditions in order to evaluate if the boron isotope signal is a good tracer of nutrition and water stresses. More about the Nutribor project here: www.samuelabiven.org/projects/nut...
NUTRIBOR: Unraveling Boron Isotope Dynamics to Diagnose Forest Nutritional Stress
The NUTRIBOR project addresses a critical gap in our understanding of tree mineral nutrition under global change by leveraging non-traditional boron stable isotopes (δ¹¹B) as tracers of geo- versus…
www.samuelabiven.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We will use these little eucalyptus in mesocosms inside our large ecotron mimicking Brazilian climatic conditions in order to evaluate if the boron isotope signal is a good tracer of nutrition and water stresses. More about the Nutribor project here: www.samuelabiven.org/projects/nut...
And that's the final @erc.europa.eu @ercrefresh.bsky.social stream isotope experiment of our 2025 field season complete. With many thanks to @bristoluni.bsky.social PhD students Matt McCormack and Boyi Li for their help with eDNA sampling and completing site decommissioning before the rain arrived 🧪
August 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
And that's the final @erc.europa.eu @ercrefresh.bsky.social stream isotope experiment of our 2025 field season complete. With many thanks to @bristoluni.bsky.social PhD students Matt McCormack and Boyi Li for their help with eDNA sampling and completing site decommissioning before the rain arrived 🧪
Evidence to date — from mesocosms, oyster hatchery interventions, and > a dozen controlled coastal pilots — shows ability to control pH within safe bounds, measurable CO₂ drawdown, and no acute harm to local biota for alkalinity addition at relevant rates.
August 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Evidence to date — from mesocosms, oyster hatchery interventions, and > a dozen controlled coastal pilots — shows ability to control pH within safe bounds, measurable CO₂ drawdown, and no acute harm to local biota for alkalinity addition at relevant rates.
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus–host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63162-2
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus–host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms - Nature Communications
The impact of global change-related stressors on microbial communities is poorly studied. Here, the authors use mesocosm experiments to show that combined environmental stressors such as nutrient and pesticide loading disrupt freshwater viral communities and virus-host interactions even when single stressors do not.
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus–host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63162-2
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus–host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus–host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms - Nature Communications
The impact of global change-related stressors on microbial communities is poorly studied. Here, the authors use mesocosm experiments to show that combined environmental stressors such as nutrient and ...
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus–host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus-host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms
->Nature | #Freshwater | More info from EcoSearch
->Nature | #Freshwater | More info from EcoSearch
Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus-host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms
This experiment was conducted in compliance with all relevant ethical regulations and was approved and supervised by the Animal Ethical and Welfare Committee, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Experiment design The mesocosm system used for this experiment was...
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Zach Bailey from the University of Bern talks about a mesocosm experiment. The mesocosms contain the soil (micro-)biome and a plant community and allow the induction of warming and heat waves.
Microbial diversity (16S sequencing) does not recover from droughts under constant warming and heat […]
Microbial diversity (16S sequencing) does not recover from droughts under constant warming and heat […]
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August 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Zach Bailey from the University of Bern talks about a mesocosm experiment. The mesocosms contain the soil (micro-)biome and a plant community and allow the induction of warming and heat waves.
Microbial diversity (16S sequencing) does not recover from droughts under constant warming and heat […]
Microbial diversity (16S sequencing) does not recover from droughts under constant warming and heat […]
New paper! 🚨 Mesocosm experiments at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social reveal that cyanobacteria blooms lower zooplankton quality & food web efficiency! 🌊🧪🦑
📉 Read full text here: umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
@UmeaUniversity #ClimateResearch #EcoChange
📉 Read full text here: umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
@UmeaUniversity #ClimateResearch #EcoChange
August 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New paper! 🚨 Mesocosm experiments at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social reveal that cyanobacteria blooms lower zooplankton quality & food web efficiency! 🌊🧪🦑
📉 Read full text here: umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
@UmeaUniversity #ClimateResearch #EcoChange
📉 Read full text here: umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
@UmeaUniversity #ClimateResearch #EcoChange
Introducing our new pond mesocosms (aka ExOPond) @ucddublin.bsky.social and the first experiment by @isacbrander.bsky.social
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Introducing ExOPond mesocosms
YouTube video by Marcin Penk
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August 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Introducing our new pond mesocosms (aka ExOPond) @ucddublin.bsky.social and the first experiment by @isacbrander.bsky.social
youtu.be/HrRQEVnMurU?...
youtu.be/HrRQEVnMurU?...
Got to see the SPRUCE project at Marcell Experimental Forest yesterday. The most impressive scientific apparatus I’ve seen and it’s not particularly close. So sad they’re wrapping up after this year, what a unique and special study
August 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Got to see the SPRUCE project at Marcell Experimental Forest yesterday. The most impressive scientific apparatus I’ve seen and it’s not particularly close. So sad they’re wrapping up after this year, what a unique and special study