📢 New in Ecology Letters: heterogeneity ≠ stability. 🌊🪨 3-yr rocky-shore experiment: 4 cascades canceled the classic heterogeneity–stability link. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70158 With @thefairchild.bsky.social , @MatthewPerkins, @JamesBull & @jngriffy.bsky.social — thanks to @NERC & @SwanseaUniversity.

🎉 New paper out! 🪸🌊 Using rocky reefs as a model and a new organising framework, we show heterogeneity effects depend on: 1) how heterogeneity is generated and measured: 2) the traits of responding organisms; and 3) environmental stress @jngriffy.bsky.social @swanseauni.bsky.social 1/7 🧵

My first paper is out! We show that Fucus serratus canopy fronds buffer below-canopy fronds from thermal stress during heatwaves. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Important new preprint highlighting the paradox of spatial environmental heterogeneity: it can both enhance & inhibit stability. @jsola.bsky.social et al. use clever experimental manipulations on rocky shores to unravel this tug-of-war. #MarineEcology #MarineLife 🦑🌊

New pre-print on heterogeneity- stability relationship led by @jsola.bsky.social: Using a long-term #RockyShore experiment we show substrate heterogeneity promotes stability via biodiversity and asynchrony, but simultaneously inhibits stabilising dominants. www.authorea.com/users/795647...

🦋 Hello, Bluesky! Excited to join this fresh, decentralised platform! Taking the opportunity to share an event I’m really excited about: the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium, happening in Zurich in 2025. Registration & abstract submission just opened! 👇

*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.