New paper-size matters! Our team showed even though highly mobile, turtles, mantas & seabirds all protected by very large #MPA around Chagos Archipelago. Led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social, @ruthedunn.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Homing navigation is optimized to diurnal constraints in a tropical seabird, the red-footed booby | doi.org/10.1016/j.an... | Animal Behaviour | #ornithology 🪶

Nice little thread on some of our recent red-footed booby work 💨👇

New research led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social combines tracking data to show the value of large marine protected areas in encompassing diverse megafauna movements 🐢 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @jappliedecology.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social

Using lightweight bird-borne cameras, scientists have captured unique footage of Indian Ocean seabirds speeding just above the waves to catch flying fish. Dr Ruth Dunn (@ruthedunn.bsky.social) of @lec-reefs.bsky.social is lead author of the study. 📰: https://tinyurl.com/yezeyxu2

"Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist" 💨🐦🐟 New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social 🧪🌍🪶

#Angelsharks may be more vulnerable to #ClimateChange than we thought! Out today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... @lancasteruni.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @ulpgc.es @qmul.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @lec-reefs.bsky.social 📸 @nuno_vasco_rodrigues

Our Indian Ocean marine science programme supports established researchers and has a major focus on training the next generation of ocean scientists. A big congratulations to all our recent PhD Graduates for 2024! #PhDGraduates #Doctor #MarineScience #MarineBiology #Scientists

In 2024 scientists from the Marine Science Programme published 39 papers, bringing the total number of published papers to 213 since 2017. Of the 39, five were published in journals with an “excellent” impact factor (>10) and a further 24 in journals with a “good” impact factor (>3)

Nest Site and Mate Fidelity in a Large Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus Breeding Colony | doi.org/10.5253/arde... | Ardea | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

Our Programme seeks to maximise visibility, accessibility & useability of all data collected by our project teams. We've partnered with the Harvard Data Repository to create a data collection that allows us to store & manage large quantities of data of all kinds dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/be...

NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social

Herculean collation of >12K megafauna tracks, >100 species, reveals 75% overlap of critical habitats with shipping, fishing, pollution or warming. Protection targets not enough to safeguard megafauna. New paper in @science.org, led by @anammsequeira.bsky.social 👇 📸silvana-palacios,daniel-torobekov

📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...

NEW PAPER collates #telemetry data of >100 marine vertebrate species including #seabirds and finds that protecting only 30% of the global ocean is not enough - because marine animals live everywhere: buff.ly/mYrtoAN

New paper out! Understanding the relative importance of nutrient transfer pathways on coral reefs. Revealing work led by @ruthedunn.bsky.social and available #OpenAccess in Coral Reefs #ecology #coralReefs

📢New blog is out! Joshua Coste shares details about his research on Red-footed Booby homing behaviour in the Indian Ocean 🌊 ➡️ tinyurl.com/RFB-navigation Full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New open access paper! Led by Joshua Coste Results show tropical seabirds meet diurnal constraints by navigating efficiently back to low-lying reef atoll colonies doi.org/10.1016/j.an... Great work from Joshua's masters internship with @uniexecec.bsky.social and @iomarinescience.bsky.social

So excited that the #MarineFlyways paper is finally out - what an incredible and exciting project to be a part of!

So cool to see this out! Also cool use of the Spilhaus projection here :)

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project 🧵1/5

Big paper drop by @reefjav.bsky.social ! Reef fish communities are undergoing substantial change on the Great Barrier Reef, with latitude and through time. Changing coral composition, not simply coral cover, a major driver. @lec-reefs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

PhD opportunity on individual flight behaviour of petrels in the tropical Indian Ocean! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (Image: Richard Crossley)

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....

Congratulations to Dr Nicole Esteban (Swansea University) who was awarded the ZSL Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation this week! The award recognises her amazing research and the significant impact it has had on marine and freshwater conservation https://buff.ly/4fdY5kY

Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean! With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project 📍University of La Reunion Apply by Jan 15th #jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology

New Science! 🦑 New #MarineBiology publication out this week led by Malc Nicoll looks at 'Sub-colony variation in foraging behaviour and at-sea distribution of a breeding tropical seabird and consequences for marine spatial planning' #openaccess Available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Promiscuous Petrels: Genetic Study Reveals Gene Flow on a Global Scale avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2017/11/11/p... A Molecular Ecology paper shows inter-oceanic gene flow among five petrel species on a global scale | #ornithology

New paper alert! Really excited to see this work from a postdoc with Steve Votier @heriotwattuni.bsky.social published in Ecology & Evolution! In it, we use existing bio-logging data to study competition and facilitation in foraging gannets. Link to paper here: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

An exciting PhD opportunity to investigate the migration strategies of a fascinating tropical #seabird with a unique long-term geolocator dataset and great supervisory team! 🤩 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗 #ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels

New PhD project, based at ZSL, on the migration strategies of Trindade petrels from Round Island, Mauritius! Fab opportunity to work on an amazing long-term ecological dataset, supervised by Malc Nicol, Emily Sheppard and Ken Norris 🔗⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #seabirds 🪶