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Aziz J Mulla

@azizjmulla.bsky.social
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IdEX Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Côte d’Azur and Researcher at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. Marine forest dynamics, recovery and resilience. 📍Rovinj 🇭🇷🇪🇺

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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Leaving beautiful Montenegro 🇲🇪 after #AdriBioPro26 - was great to present on the project I lead across the Med, catch up with colleagues and put names off papers to faces. It’s also probably the final time my name badge lists me as French 😉
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's amazing to be back teaching at the @univcotedazur.bsky.social with MARRES 🐳! Especially great to see the 2026 cohort graduate 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓, welcome new students ⭐, meet old and new colleagues for future collaborations 👯, conduct some cheeky fieldwork 🤿 and prepare to teach some new and exciting classes 👨‍🏫
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Great few days travelling south down the loooong coastline of Croatia for reproductive phenology of Cystoseira forests! Also saw some of the biggest G. Barbatas ever! It’s great to see “pockets” of hope for Mediterranean algal forests! Not so great to be attacked by swans.
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New pre-print titled 'A Systematic Review of Coral Research in Taiwan' where we discuss the more beautiful and interesting side of Taiwan that many miss. Great to work with an amazing team - Yuting Vicky Lin 🇹🇼, Daphne Hoh 🇲🇾, Takanori Satoh 🇯🇵 and Crystal McRae 🇨🇦 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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A Systematic Review of Coral Research in Taiwan
<p>Taiwan’s coral ecosystems are characterized by their ecological functions, critical to regional connectivity, and human livelihoods. Following decades of res
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Check out our new paper “Density-driven bottlenecks constrain restoration of macroalgal forests" published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🌿 When it comes to restoring Mediterranean macroalgal forests, less is more. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Density‐driven bottlenecks constrain restoration of macroalgal forests
This single-species and single-site experiment provides evidence that high-density restoration strategies accelerate mortality, suppress growth and delay reproduction, whereas low-density approaches ....
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Check out our new paper “The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages
We assessed the effects of experimental patches of live and dead corals on reef fish assemblages in different live stages. While dead and live corals provided equal shelter for mobile recruits, only ....
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NEW PAPER “Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations" Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show: 🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery 🪸Later recruits failed to survive 🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations - Coral Reefs
Reef recovery following a disturbance largely depends on successful coral recruitment and the absence of chronic stressors. However, recent recovery events show increasing homogenization, with dominan...
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our interconnected planet is all we have 🌍❤️
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
First day back teaching of a new semester after a wonderful, science-filled 4 days in the Lerin Islands with new MSc students!
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Check out our new paper: 🐠 🪸 🔈 🌊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Environmental and acoustic drivers of fish recruitment along degraded coral reefs
The global degradation of coral reefs threatens the persistence of fish assemblages, and protection-based management strategies alone may be insuffici…
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Fantastic opportunity in beautiful Taiwan with a great PI! Apply ASAP! 🪸 🐟 🌊 🤿 ☀️
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#WorldOceansDay
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It was also a privilege to meet and talk to Sylvia Earle outside the opera. This coming week at #UNOC3 calls for the most experienced and recognised voices of our ocean!
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Was a real honour to speak at the #OOSC #UNOC3 last week about our inherent relationship between the terrestrial and marine, corals and seaweeds and how we can effectively apply science in restoration efforts 🌲 🪸 🌊
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
If you're attending the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice this coming week, come discuss corals, seaweeds and everything marine forest recovery on Thursday 5th June at 2pm in Room 7! #OOSC #UNOC
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We managed to speak to people from all around the world, from French NGOs to Indian scientists to Madagascan MPA Managers to coral reef ecologists in Taiwan to polar engineers in Canada to experts in marine conservation in the Mediterranean...now its over to those in power to listen and make change!
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As an official affiliated event of UNOC (United Nations Ocean Conference) 2025, we set out on a 24-hour live relay, following the Sun across all time zones, speaking to professionals in all fields of marine science across 24 sessions. Catch up with all sessions here: lnkd.in/gn75BhT3
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Join us LIVE on Youtube for 24 hours of #MarineScience as we welcome the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3 to Nice, France! Use this link to access the entire schedule: univ-cotedazur.eu/msc/marres/u... And this link to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07A...
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Check out our new pre-print www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations
Reef recovery following a disturbance largely depends on successful coral recruitment and the absence of chronic stressors. However, recent recovery events show increasing homogenization, with dominan...
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Beautiful Cladocora caespitosa, forms the only true coral reef in the Mediterranean 🪸
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Field work à Île Sainte-Marguerite with those special people from Taiwan 🇹🇼❤️
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I was lucky enough to receive a grant from @britishecologicalsociety.org this year! Would definitely recommend applying! 🤿 🪸 🌊 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A little hope in all the doom from @nancyknowlton.bsky.social - Resilience through change - New ecological balances - Long-term perspective is important www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Excited to present at the UN One Ocean Science Congress next year in our beautiful home that is Nice 🇫🇷 looking forward to meeting lots of new people too! #OOSC2025
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Final couple of weeks leading up to Christmas and we are lucky enough to have a quick getaway along the coast from all the rush to Sanary-sur-Mer. Extra beautiful at this time of year 🎄✨ (It might be 12° but it’s still cold for the south of France and we’re in training for the U.K!!)
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Of all the concepts that humankind needs to absorb + act on with extreme urgency, this tops the list.
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What a life, what achievements right until the end. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants and Kike Ballesteros was one big one. 🪸
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Diving under full moon conditions like this for coral reproduction means you don’t really need your torch! #CoralReefs 🪸
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Dr Margaux Steyaert 🪸 @margauxsteyaert.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II
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Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In Nature, Delavaux et al., 2024 suggest that species richness on oceanic islands is reduced by mutualism rates on the mainland. In arxiv.org/abs/2411.15105, @maximilianpichler.bsky.social and I had another look at this question and conclude that this effect is likely a statistical artefact.
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Is there a robust effect of mainland mutualism rates on species richness of oceanic islands?
In island biogeography, it is widely accepted that species richness on island depends on the area and isolation of the island as well as the species pool on the mainland. Delavaux et al. (2024) sugges...
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Aziz J Mulla
‪Postdoctoral Researcher, Université Côte d'Azur, France‬ - ‪‪Cited by 100‬‬ - ‪Ecology‬ - ‪Non-Indigenous Species‬ - ‪Recovery‬ - ‪Resilience‬ - ‪Coral Reefs‬
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Marine folk, you’re needed! 👇
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This week has been one paper rejection and one grant approval. I’ll take the balanced approach 💪
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Aziz here! Currently between tropical coral reefs in Taiwan and Mediterranean marine forests in the south of France! Looking forward to more science-focused discussions on here! Will be sharing beautiful pics, great papers and updates from our underwater world!
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Beautiful as always
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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Could I be added too! 🪸
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