๐จ New #preprint online! ๐จ
"Forecasting #bryozoan assemblage dynamics under simulated #ClimateChange" by Mira Baer et al.
We use an #IndividualBasedModel to explore potential future bryozoan assemblage dynamics. We show that successional patterns strongly depend on the duration of the growing season as well as on the spatial distribution of predation events - which are both likely to change due to #ClimateWarming...
๐๐ป https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685734v1
A fossilized Bryozoan sea mat from over 300 million years ago and a couple of ones I found growing on some seaweed a few weeks back. Relatively unchanged after all that time!!
County Donegal, Ireland.
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Fossilized Bryozoan sea mats and some Crinoid discs. Sea mats are colonial invertebrates that leave behind calcareous skeletons that can look like lace or mesh. These particular fossilized ones are over 300 million years old.
County Donegal, Ireland.
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A dried up piece of seaweed, covered in a dried out Bryozoan sea mat. A Sea mat is a colony of made up of individual zooids (a singular Bryozon).
County Clare, Ireland.
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Pieces of fossilized Bryozoan sea mats, like fine lace netting.
Despite their delicate appearance, they have managed to survive intact in these rock layers for over 300 million years.
County Donegal, Ireland.
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More context: Franzi studied #structure-#stability relations in #competition #networks, using #bryozoan assemblages as study systems. She could show that #hierarchy mitigates network #instability by keeping self-reinforcing #feedback relatively weak.
Competitive hierarchies between species in bryozoan assemblages are shown to mitigate network instability by keeping short and long feedback loops weak.
Overlapping Bryozoan sea mats on a large kelp frond. These are colonies of individual animals called zooids that attach them selves to seaweeds and other surfaces.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Encrusted shore stones.
A mix of Keelworm casings, Coralline algae and Bryozoans coat these stones giving each its very own texture and colour combination.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Dr. Korinna Allhoff
Cormac's Coast
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