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Robin P.M. Gauff

@robingauff.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist focusing on Climate Change, invasive species and Urbanization.

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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today I learned that benthic ctenophora exist... and somehow I find them super cute (artist interpretation)
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In situ studies are difficult, but worth the effort! We simulated realistic Artificial Light At Night #ALAN by installing new lights in a dark zone and saw that it did not directly impact seagrass, but caused long term physiological changes. #fieldwork at night was fun! doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
These three beautiful lights are the ones that we installed. They lit the seawall and part of the studied seagrassNight fieldwork underwater required us to be creative (and very caffeinated)Our in situ respirometry chamber to assess nighttime metabolism. No electric parts (we tried but it was too difficult) so we used the waves to stirr the chambers with a marble inside.
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Finally: What happens when weather anomalies push down ⏬🌊the sea-level over days or weeks? We describe Dry Tides as a new category of climatic disturbance, often associated to #heatwaves or high pressure, that leaves intertidal organisms with dry feet💀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Perfect timing with the current #Heatwave 🌡️ in Europe: I've got a BIG article about another kind of #ExtremeWeather to share very soon (I am super excited because I went out of my comfort zone with this one). Hint:🌊⏬✅⏫🚫= 💀 Stay tuned! #ClimateChange #ExtremeClimate
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Amelia Curd @aec13.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Glorious spring tide and weather ☀️ 🌊 5️⃣ days, 3️⃣ sites, 5️⃣ treatments & 8️⃣7️⃣RAS later 😮‍💨 all pools & plots from Robin’s article were re-surveyed 4️⃣ years on 🙌 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of lovely fresh 📈 @robingauff.bsky.social @bastien-taormina.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Typical day with @mendeley.bsky.social
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I love research that nuances established ideas in socio-scoentifc contexts. A new one by @karencastro.bsky.social and @evanschwindt.bsky.social shows how shipwrecks can have both, positive and negative effects, challenging their wide deployment for recreation doi.org/10.25260/EA.25.35.1.0.2388
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Pecios artificiales: Consecuencias no deseadas del hundimiento deliberado de buques para el buceo recreativo | Ecología Austral
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Embracing that eco-engineering helps little for ecol. restoration, but still increases biodiversity, lets us think differently and actually design beautiful marine urban green spaces with humans in mind. We could make these areas attractive for recreational activities and increase human wellbeing.
Sorry for using AI, but I just want to illustrate a concept.Sorry for using AI, but I just want to illustrate a concept.
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
our new paper shows that artif. tidepools increased biodiversity, but their community was distinct from natural habitats and prone to introduced species presence. We make the point that eco-eng. has no true value for restoration but they could be considered as marine green spaces akin to parks (3/3)
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Mixed messages: Eco-engineered tide pools can provide both positive and negative contributions, with the possibility of increasing introduced species diversity
With marine urbanisation on the rise, decision makers and managers are aiming to mitigate and offset impacts arising from the destruction of natural h…
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
@louisefirth.bsky.social has written some excellent papers which discuss how greening could be prone to conflicts of interest and #greenwashing. I think some problems might be (willingly) overlooked by stakeholders… (2/3) doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Greening of grey infrastructure should not be used as a Trojan horse to facilitate coastal development
Where societal and economic demand makes development inevitable, particular attention should be paid to avoiding, minimizing and rehabilitating environmental impacts. Integrated greening of grey infr...
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
#Ecoengineering increases species diversity by increasing habitat patchiness and complexity, this is well documented. Unfortunately this is linked to increasing #invasivespecies diversity in several Eco-engoneered systems. 1/3
Artificial concrete tide pool on an Atlantic shorelineArtificial tidepool with complex 3D printed concrete on a Mediterranean coastlineArtificial fish nurseries in a Mediterranean harbor
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Did a night dive 🌌🤿 on Mediterranean sea grass yesterday evening and noticed that we were surrounded by … frogs!? Found out that scorpionfish sing at night, which is my favorite fish info of the moment 💙 Sound recording: www.facebook.com/share/v/14JG... Article doi: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
While I think that #ecoengineering has some value to provide ecosystem services to humans, I am critical concerning its use for rehabilitation/impact compensation. For example it may increase the risk associated to introduced species. doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
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Redirecting
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Awesome presentation by Giada Riva on the absence of biotic homogenization at regional scale at the #ITRS #ITRS2025 This was one of the unexpected outcomes of the HERMES campaign and shows that we still have a lot to learn about marine urban #ecosystems
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My talk on the #ITRS #ITRS2025 will be on friday 4th at 15:45. If you're not available at this time don't hesitate to talk to me during todays Icebreaker!
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Another #ITRS #ITRS2025 presentation from the HERMES campaign will be given by the amazing Giada Riva Tuesday 1 July from 16:45 to 17:00! Don't miss it, the results may surprise you!
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My favorite substrate so far was this abandoned fin with over 20 different Bryozoa species 🌈
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Participating to the #ATLASea #DIVE-Sea project aiming to identify and sequence as many marine species as possible. It’s fun being surrounded by other taxonomists in all domains! For the moment one of my favorite substrates was this discarded hat full with bryos!
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ATLASea @atlasea.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧪 Mission @atlasea.bsky.social à la Station Marine d'Endoume – Jour 1 🌊 À peine la mission lancée, les premiers échantillons arrivent dès ce matin ! 🐚🪸🧬 Notre équipe collecte, trie et documente la biodiversité marine du littoral méditerranéen. #BiodiversitéMarine #Échantillonnage
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The HERMES campaign will feature in two presentations at the International Temperate Reefs Symposium #conference I will present how some urban artificial habitats may have insular properties. The implications of this insight on understanding urban community assembly are huge! #ITRS #ITRS2025
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
For the HERMES 2023 #fieldwork we spent hundreds of hours under water to measure ecosystem functions like photosynthesis, but also months in the laboratory to generate our #taxonomic dataset of 500 (!) species. This helped investigate biotic homogenization and island biogeography in urban habitats.
Laura Airoldi holding down our flexible benthic respirometry chamber despite the waves. Giada Riva and Hassan Almetwaly in the lab identifying all flora and fauna from our scraping samples
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
In 2023 we conducted the Homogenization and Ecogeography on Regional scale in Manmade EcoSystems (HERMES) campaign which aimed to study biogeographic processes on regional scale along the whole Italian coast. We drove camper to sample urban and natural habitats on 33 sites in 2 months
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Together with the previous works on local adaptation, this might indicate that some NIS species invest energy in disturbance resistance. As these investments are costly, this renders them less competitive in less disturbed areas, maybe explaining why many NIS stay restricted to urban habitats.
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A native mussel distributed along a gradient with lower abundance in the inner parts, while the invasive more resistant one did the opposite. Recruits matched this pattern for the native, but the invasive species recruits settled everywhere indicating post recruitment effects doi.org/10.3389/fmar...
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Frontiers | Distribution of native and non-indigenous bivalves and their settlers along an urban gradient
Marine coastal habitats are often characterized by strong gradients of anthropogenic disturbance such as pollution, typically most severe at urban waterfront...
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Even more striking, is that local adaptation of some Bryozoa to local pollution is present on such a tiny scale (<100m). This is shown by higher pollution accumulation of Entrance-->Inner transplants compared to inner control (red boxes), and lower LysoPE content (fitness marker, white arrow).
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The difference in community structure between areas of the same marina can be actually quite striking as demonstrated by our settlement plates. We were able to causally link community and pollution via a transplant experiment.
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
One of the main focuses of my research lays on how disturbance gradients (mostly pollution) results in different communities along these gradients in marine urban habitats and how invasive species capitalize on them. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We’re currently doing some field sampling in harbors and natural environments to test whether biotic homogenization happens on a temporal scale too! #fieldwork
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In a new paper, we simulated a strong heatwave in a harbor, which did ... nothing! The community was unchanged, as was the metabolome of a Bryozoan. The harbor community showed high resistance which is consistent with observations from other disturbances doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106813
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In marine urban habitats #pollution leads to strong variation in envir. conditions , thus, to differences in community structure. However this can be masked by high intensity marine #HeatWaves favouring resistant species leading to small scale biotic homogenization. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Climate change is affecting ecosystems worldwide, but remains difficult to study due to the difficulty of implementing in situ experiments. With our great team from @sbroscoff.bsky.social we constructed a system reliably simulating +3°C climate change on harbor communities doi.org/10.1007/s108...
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Impact of in Situ Simulated Climate Change on Communities and Non-Indigenous Species: Two Climates, Two Responses - Journal of Chemical Ecology
Climate change constitutes a major challenge for marine urban ecosystems and ocean warming will likely strongly affect local communities. Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) have been shown to often have hig...
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Robin P.M. Gauff @robingauff.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
New here on Bluesky, so I will present myself with a series of posts discussing my favorite research subjects: Community composition in marine urban habitats, #introducedSpecies and #ClimateChange as well as #MarineHeatWaves Don't hesitate to get in touch!
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