Three weeks left to apply for our two PhD positions - come and join @lec-reefs.bsky.social to deliver applied research in restoration ecology and corporate sustainability! ๐ชธ๐๐ณ๐
Please do share amongst your networks, and I'm happy to meet with potential candidates to discuss the position further ๐
๐จ Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! ๐จ
๐ชธ๐ Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
๐ด๐ Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fantastic PhD opportunities with an award-winning and wonderfully supportive supervisor. Would highly recommend!
๐ข Amazing #PDRA opportunities.
Exciting and important questions with a stellar and supportive team, plus cool fieldwork options.
Check it out NOW!
#coralreefs #jobs #restoration #research
๐๐จ-๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ: Tim Lamont, Permas Bagya Maulana, Ines Lange, Muhammad Rizky Madjid, Andi Muh. Agung Pratama, Cicilia Valensi Parrangan, Tries Blandine Razak, Nick Graham
๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ : Many thanks to Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, The FSBI and The Pew Charitable Trusts
๐ Some aspects of a coral reef can be restored quickly, but we should expect that its full complexity and diversity may take a longer time to recover ๐ชธ ๐ ๐ชผ ๐ฆ ๐ก
๐ฝ๏ธ With less of their preferred dietary corals around, corallivores swam further to find food, holding larger territories with lower population density.
๐กRestored reefs recovered coral cover and some fish populations within 5 years, but not coral diversity and all fish populations.
๐ก Corallivorous fish had ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต recovered to the same extent - there were more corallivores than on degraded reefs, but still only ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ง as many as on healthy reefs.
๐ This is likely to do with coral ๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ - the preferred diets of corallivores were corals that were rare on restored reefs.
We surveyed corals and fishes on recently restored coral reefs (~5 yrs old), and found that...
๐ชธ Coral cover had recovered to approx. healthy levels
๐ Some fish groups (herbivores, planktivores, omnivores) had also recovered to approx. healthy levels
But...
๐จ ๐๐๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ! ๐จ Open access here - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... - and summary below โฌ๏ธ
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Full details at hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... and hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx..., enquiries welcome ๐(2 of 2)
We're hiring! ๐ฅณ Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. ๐ณ ๐ชธ โป๏ธ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Starting a new job felt like a good time to join the BlueSky party! ๐๐ฆ
Excited to be starting a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - look out for job ads soon on ecosystem restoration ๐ชธ๐ด๐ , business sustainability โป๏ธ and corporate accounting ๐งฎ๐. Exciting plans ahead!
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...