Thank you Jens :) Yes, I am enjoying it a lot!

🗺️ Integrated reef management *can* help reduce local stressors, but it’s not one-size-fits-all.

Reefs are complex, dynamic ecosystems.

Effective management must be site-specific, guided by robust, multi-source datasets.

📊🛰️🔍Better (and more) data = better decisions.

⚠️ Here’s the kicker:

Corals in the more turbid reefs are already stressed, now add heat, and the effects stack up.🤒

Both thermal stress and seawater turbidity increase the vulnerability of nearshore reefs, but they affect coral growth in different ways.

🔥 Then came the heat.

During 2014-2016, thermal stress caused a 14–30% decline in coral growth across all study sites, regardless of water quality. 🌡️🐚

Coral resilience to thermal stress is not just linked to local water quality.

😶‍🌫️🌊 The murkier the water, the slower the coral grows.

We found a negative relationship between average coral growth and seawater turbidity.

Linear extension was reduced by nearly half in the more turbid locations. 📉🪸

Local water quality matters.

Coastal seawater turbidity and thermal stress control growth of reef-building Porites spp. corals in Fiji - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Coastal seawater turbidity and thermal stress control growth of reef-building Porites spp. corals in Fiji

🚨New paper alert🚨
Check our new paper (w/ @sindiarocks.bsky.social, @stacyjupiter.bsky.social et al.)

We looked at growth of Porites corals from nearshore reefs in Fiji from 1998-2016 and found compounding effects between coastal turbidity and thermal stress.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥 Then came the heat.

During 2014-2016, thermal stress caused a 14–30% decline in coral growth across all study sites, regardless of water quality. 🌡️🐚

Coral resilience to thermal stress is not just linked to local water quality.

😶‍🌫️🌊 The murkier the water, the slower the coral grows.

We found a negative relationship between average coral growth and seawater turbidity.

Linear extension reduced by up to 42% in more turbid conditions. 📉🪸

Local water quality matters.