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...
Photos of a reef manta ray, red-footed booby, and a hawsbill turtles with biologging devices attached to them. The journal logo is also featured, alongside the article title and author list. Some text reads: "Tracking data reveal that very large marine protected areas offer protection for mobile marine megafauna including benthic foragers (turtles), pelagic planktivores (manta ray), and oceanic predators (seabirds)".
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
Composite image of the Proceedings B journal title, the manuscript title and the author list, alongside an image of a red-footed booby flying amongst palm trees. Some text reads: "Winds shape the behavioural decisions of red-footed boobies, impacting their foraging commutes and feeding behaviour".
"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
🧪🌍🪶
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
JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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
Check out our latest Exeter Marine starter pack! 🐟🐠🐡
This will get you connected with all of faculty who are currently on BlueSky. 🦑🧪🌍🌐🐢🦤
go.bsky.app/6nvmb3h
marine conservation | marine science | marine academics
Exciting PhD opportunity to investigate tropical seabird migration strategies with Malcolm Nicoll at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#ornithology #seabird #PhDopportunity
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...
Excellent week at #CoimbraSeabirds! Lots of exciting science and great scientists! Well done to fellow @exetercec.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social on fantastic presentations & thanks to ECOTOP and @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social for organising!
“Prospecting behaviour in a tropical #seabird, the red-footed booby."
@alicetrevail.bsky.social examines the factors driving immature dispersal in Red-footed Boobies in the Chagos Archipelago, highlighting its role in population recovery. 🏝️
#CoimbraSeabirds
Atolls are vital for seabirds - and vice versa! 🐦🏝️💞
Check out my Nature Ecology & Evolution News & Views article:
nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 Nathan Hudson-Peacock; sooty terns on an atoll island.
One photo showing seabirds flying over an atoll island and one photo showing a coral reef with fish swimming by
Recently out in Conservation Biology:
"Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reef functioning"
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
🐀🌳 Eradicating rats & restoring vegetation could help to bring back thousands of seabirds and restore nutrient flows to coral reefs 🪽🪸
New tropical seabird paper!
Brown boobies use similar habitats and foraging strategies across colonies, seasons and breeding stages
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetercec.bsky.social
Really proud of our new guide to processing and exploring animal tracking data in R which has just been published in @animalecology.bsky.social!
If you work with animal tracking data or have a student that does then please read and share! Lots of useful code and a shiny app for data vis!
Check out more resources on the ExMove website, including links to the code repository and a helpful user guide: exmove.github.io
ExMove can help you:
- Process raw tracking data files into a standardised format for archive & analyses
- Determine appropriate filters for removing erroneous data
- Identify central-place foraging trips in your data
- Calculate useful summary metrics for publications
New paper! If you use animal tracking data, this one's for you!
Proud of this collaboration with fellow @exetercec.bsky.social ECRs @liamlangley1.bsky.social, Stephen Lang, & Luke Ozsanlav-Harris to aid reproducible coding in biologging
Open Access @animalecology.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/58k2fa7u
New insight into tropical seabird foraging ecology led by @ruthedunn.bsky.social
Red-footed boobies select foraging habitat at different scales, responding to environments available at sea & encountered on route
Out now & open access: doi.org/10.1007/s002...
Image shows the journal title 'Marine Biology' as well as the paper title 'From route to dive: multi-scale habitat selection in a foraging tropical seabird', the author list (Ruth Dunn, Robin Freeman, Malcolm Nicoll, Julia Ramsden, Alice Trevail, Hannah Wood and Steve Votier), a map of red-footed booby foraging tracks and dive bout locations, a photo of a red-footed booby and some text that reads 'Red-footed booby dive bout dynamics vary across their foraging journeys and are impacted by environmental conditions and the diurnal cycle'
Out now in Marine Biology: "From route to dive: multi-scale habitat selection in a foraging tropical seabird" 🐦🐟
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
We found that red-footed booby habitat selection varied between their foraging routes in comparison to their dive locations 🌊🌞
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We're seeking nominations for keynotes for #BOU2025 Frontiers in ornithology
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Struggling seabirds thrown a lifeline by new commercial fishing ban in the North Sea – but it may not be enough
theconversation.com/struggling-s...
Excellent article by @ruthedunn.bsky.social in The Conversation
This work is part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social programme, and is a collaboration between @exetercec.bsky.social, Institute of Zoology ZSL, and Herriot Watt University
We also found interesting differences in trip timings...
Birds left the colony earlier in the day from larger colonies / when undertaking multi-day (rather than single-day) trips / if they were female
Red-footed booby roosting on a branch. Photo: Steve Votier
New-ish paper! Published last month (I was on holiday!) alongside Hannah Wood, @ruthedunn.bsky.social, @robinfreeman.bsky.social, and others 🪶🦑
Red-footed boobies showed colony segregation in foraging range, space use, and timing
DOI: doi.org/10.3354/meps... / let us know if you want the pdf!
Big thank you to Steve Votier, Malc Nicoll, and Robin Freeman, as well as all our collaborators across the UK and Indian Ocean
We've been working on seabird connectivity and conservation across the Indian Ocean as part of the Bertarelli Programme in Marine Science
We found that divergent habitat use & itinerancy preclude localised aggregations = high seas conservation will be key to protect this important assemblage!
