Clip from the Tokmakia plateau (NE Lesvos): a mesophotic coralligenous reef with dense red gorgonians and complex bioconstructions. This is the kind of “animal forest” habitat our work focuses on documenting and conserving.
#coralligenous #gorgonians #oceans @skatsanevakis.bsky.social
🧠 CoralNet in action!
Here’s how the Marine Ecology Lab UNINA is using #AI-powered #photoquadrat analysis to identify coralligenous assemblages.
📸 Credit: Marzia Cianflone, Fraschetti - Marine Ecology Lab, Univ. of Naples Federico II
#MarineScience #Coralligenous #BioBoost+
Claudia and the scientific diving team of the Marine Zoology Lab on a zodiac, ready to jump into the water with all their diving and sampling equipment
FIELDS OF INTEREST: #MarineEcology 🌊, scientific #diving 🤿, #mesophotic #reefs 🪸, #EcosystemRestoration, #eDNA 🧬, #TeamInvert 🐚
PRESENT: PhD project on #coralligenous communities adopting a functional approach under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Cerrano
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🪸 On 22 November, we hosted a virtual session to discuss best practices in biodiversity monitoring, with a focus on #coralligenous habitats. Missed it?
No worries, catch the recording here:
This spring I had the opportunity to start “the understorey behind the forest”, a mediterranean project aiming to assess the canopy effect of gorgonian forests in its associated community #conservation #mesophotic #GoPro #scientificdiving #photogrammetry #coralligenous #bio #marineanimalforest #sea
