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Casey Benkwitt

@cbenkwitt.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist | Senior research fellow at Lancaster University

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James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Deadline FRIDAY! New postdoc position on pelagic reef subsidies. @lancasteruni.bsky.social & @lec-reefs.bsky.social Tell your friends 😎 🦑🧪🌊🌍
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Jennifer Appoo @jenniferappoo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A bit late but excited to share our new paper exploring how seabird nutrient inputs influence mangrove food webs! 🐦🌿 @entropie-marinelab.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social Open access: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching
Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....
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Hannah Epstein @hannah-eps.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🚨New paper alert! With an amazing group of collaborators, we explore potential indicators for assessing the impacts of island restoration on nearshore tropical marine ecosystems (plus it's my first senior author paper - a mini milestone!). Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Re-connecting ecosystems: Integrating coral reefs into monitoring of island restoration
Ecosystems are intrinsically linked, such that management actions in one ecosystem can influence adjacent ecosystems. However, adequate data, and even…
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Casey Benkwitt @cbenkwitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Check out our new paper! We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Diagram showing links between seabirds and various coral-reef monitoring outcomes.
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Casey Benkwitt @cbenkwitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
After many months of social media absence, I'm finally ready to start posting over here. So here's a (re-)introduction: 👋 Hi, I'm a marine ecologist who mostly researches coral-reef fishes. My current work examines how seabird nutrients influence coral-reef ecology and resilience 🐦💩🪸🪸🐠🐟
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