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Headlines AfricaAfrica: Viruses Aren't All Bad / In the Ocean, Some Help Fuel the Food Web - A New Study Shows How: [The Conversation Africa] Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQKkhD #Africa #Viruses #OceanLife #FoodWeb #MarineBiology
Dan Stafford#mwgic #2026 #Oceans #OceanCurrents #Marine #Environment #FoodWeb
The Panama Sea stopped “breathing” in 2025, and what satellites and fishermen saw had never been recorded in four decades https://share.google/PwePV1kKQnQGzfUFW
Nadiah KristensenMy #introduction keywords: #academic #modelling #evolution #cooperation #gameTheory #ecology #appliedMathematics
I'm a #postdoc specialising in evolutionary and ecological modelling, currently at #QUT and #GriffithUni in #Australia
Previous work: #evolutionOfCooperation, estimating undetected #extinctions, #qualitativemodelling, migratory #phenology, #foodweb #modelling, local #adaptation, #carryover effects, #dispersal.
My blog: https://nadiah.org/
michael13-Nov-2025
What happens to #ecosystems when you restore iconic top #predators? It’s more complicated than you might think.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105977 #science #ecology #conservation #carnivores #foodweb
What happens to ecosystems when you restore iconic top predators? It’s more complicated than you might think.
A new study analyzes findings from more than 170 papers to clarify what we know so far about the ecological impacts of large carnivore recovery in North America and what mysteries still remain.
13-Nov-2025
Mystery of how much squid short-finned pilot #whales eat resolved
There’s plenty more #squid in the sea for Hawaiian short-finned #pilotWhales
Mystery of how much squid short-finned pilot whales eat resolved
How much food an animal needs to consume on a daily basis is a crucial part of the jigsaw of life and now an international team of researchers reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology that individual short-finned pilot whales off Hawai’i consume between 82 and 202 squid per day, adding up to 88,000 tonnes of squid per year for the Hawaiian population, which, fortunately, is a drop in the ocean for the local squid population.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬#AI at #Sea: #OregonState Sets Sail to Study the #Ocean in Real Time
The lab studies the foundation of the #marine #foodweb by capturing high-resolution imagery and environmental telemetry, then turning those streams into insights. That work is not abstract. It is field #science that depends on ships, sensors, and time windows that cannot be recreated. Losing data is not an inconvenience. It is the loss of a moment in the ocean that will never return.
https://www.storagereview.com/review/ai-at-sea-oregon-state-sets-sail-to-study-the-ocean-in-real-time
The lab studies the foundation of the #marine #foodweb by capturing high-resolution imagery and environmental telemetry, then turning those streams into insights. That work is not abstract. It is field #science that depends on ships, sensors, and time windows that cannot be recreated. Losing data is not an inconvenience. It is the loss of a moment in the ocean that will never return.
https://www.storagereview.com/review/ai-at-sea-oregon-state-sets-sail-to-study-the-ocean-in-real-time
28-Oct-2025
All prey are not the same: marine #predators face uneven nutritional payoffs
New study finds that the nutritional value of prey within a single species can widely vary, offering key insights for #foodWeb dynamics and #ecosystem change
All prey are not the same: marine predators face uneven nutritional payoffs
Researchers are redefining the nutritional value of prey. Studying the dynamics of sea lion predators and their prey, the researchers found that not all prey are the same — even those of similar size and weight of the same species — offering new perspectives for understanding ocean food resources.
Louica Philipp (she/they) 🌱🦊If you're into #ecology, #metacommunity, #network and #diversity #theory, #foodweb models with #dynamic #traits, #ecoevo #feedback, #complexsystems, or perhaps even #Turingpatterns, my first paper just published in Oikos might be worth a look:
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback"
https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11039
All credits due to my wonderful supervisors and coauthors @christian Guill and Toni Klauschies 🎓
Very exciting week! 🦊
#Oceans just hit an ominous milestone
A new report sounds alarm on #oceanacidification as #Earth breaches the seventh of nine "#planetaryboundaries."
Relentless #acidification of the #seas that’s crossed into dangerous territory, threatening all manner of #marine life, including the organisms at the base of the #foodweb.
#Climate is changing rapidly; #humans are using too much #freshwater; we’re driving species to #extinction and transforming the #biosphere
https://grist.org/climate/the-oceans-just-hit-an-ominous-milestone/
A new report sounds alarm on #oceanacidification as #Earth breaches the seventh of nine "#planetaryboundaries."
Relentless #acidification of the #seas that’s crossed into dangerous territory, threatening all manner of #marine life, including the organisms at the base of the #foodweb.
#Climate is changing rapidly; #humans are using too much #freshwater; we’re driving species to #extinction and transforming the #biosphere
https://grist.org/climate/the-oceans-just-hit-an-ominous-milestone/
