Africa: 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
#FoodWeb
#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
My #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/
13-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
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
#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
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
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/
#KnowedgeByte: A #FoodWeb is a complex #Diagram that shows how different organisms in an ecosystem are connected through feeding relationships.
It illustrates the flow of energy through the ecosystem, from producers (like plants) to consumers (like animals).
https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Food-Web-66e708edb53ab5fdb401467d
Warming seas threaten key #phytoplankton species that fuels the #foodweb, study finds
“These are #keystonespecies — very important ones,” said François Ribalet, a research associate professor at the University of Washington’s School of #Oceanography and the study’s lead author. “And when a keystone species decreases in abundance, it always has consequences on #ecology and #biodiversity. The food web is going to change.”
https://apnews.com/article/phytoplankton-prochlorococcus-decline-food-web-warming-oceans-c9e31c10b3ff9d613b41517836d55122
“What we’re witnessing is that as #bison move across the landscape, they amplify the nutritional quality and capacity of Yellowstone,” Hamilton said.
“Their #grazing likely has important consequences for other herbivores and for the food web as a whole, similar to the changes that occurred in the Serengeti when the wildebeest population recovered.”
Dave Volek's Food Chain
I built a food chain simulation for biology students to manage a wildlife preserve:
Phytoplankton are microscopic plants living in the #water column. They flourish in the nutrient-rich waters around Antarctica, where they both remove a lot of #carbon from the atmosphere and are the base of the local #foodweb. Over the last 25 years, they have changed, and it's related to ice lose.
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02379-x
How are diversity, food web structure and ecosystem functioning related? Here Borzone Mas et al. analyze the interrelationship between these three components in predatory fishes of the Paraná River.
Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735914
Millions of tonnes of #nanoplastics are polluting the #ocean
These #plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the #foodweb
These particles, smaller than one micrometer in diameter, behave differently from larger microplastics by remaining suspended throughout the water column rather than settling to the ocean floor. The nanoplastics can pass through cell walls and enter the marine food web through #phytoplankton.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02162-0
【💡High Cited 】
Multitrophic biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions, services and ecological intensification in agriculture
⭐ Cores:
#Biodiversity ➡️ multitrophic effects
#EcologicalIntensification measures ➡️ agriculture & forestry
it breaks my heart to think of the world my children and grandchildren are inheriting
【EDITOR'S CHOICE】
Multitrophic biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions, services and ecological intensification in agriculture
#AgroecosystemBEF | #FoodWeb | #Multifunctionality | #PestControl | #Biocontrol | #Pollination
#CCSFrance2025 23/06 @iscpif Elisa Thébault will give a keynote on "Species diversity, #FoodWeb structure and #ecosystem stability: bridging the gap between theory and data?"
We will have 19 Keynotes and invited speakers and many other presentation.
Register to this exceptional @css_france conference until June 6 !
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