Ed Roberts

Coral ecologist (PhD) and underwater photographer. Views are my own.

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

The isolated reefs of the Coral Sea are often out of sight and out of mind, but the effects of ocean warming were impossible to miss over a month of research with
@CoralCoE alongside @Parks_Australia. @ProfTerryHughes this definitely adds to the GBR story.

[Dr Anna Cresswell @A_K_Cresswell]

We are very pleased to bring you Coralcraft! A 3D model of coral communities and hydrodynamic disturbance, published in Coral Reefs @SpringerCORE 🐠

Paper here: https://t.co/3Cta6vMJhP

#R code available here https://t.co/J44874kMFd

@saamrenton @uwaoceans @BiolSci_UWA @CSIRO

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

How about using just a sliver of that money for researching the fundamental ecological rules of these ecosystems? Would be a hell of a lot more useful than all this wilful self delusion.

[Dr Josie McSkimming @JosieMcskimming]

"It's like giving a diet pill to someone with chronic obesity," Dr Roberts, marine biologist, said.

It’s all about emissions, ⁦@sussanley⁩.

#greatbarrierreef
From ⁦@p_hannam⁩

https://t.co/HuAvmpzXwz

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

"It's like giving a diet pill to someone with chronic obesity,”
Time to stop throwing money at magic cures & confront reality.
https://t.co/ZATfbm0n5V via @smh

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

looking good!

[Queensland Museum Kurilpa @qldmuseum]

How is genetic data changing the way we research our reefs? Dr Tom Bridge (@TomBridge07)our #CouchCurator from @MuseumofTropical Queensland has the answer... #qldmuseum #qldcultureathome @CoralCoE

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

Exposed reef flats in the Coral Sea are often pretty bare, but it sure makes it easy to see the scattered corals when they are all bright fluorescent or white. Seems like a lot of new recruits after the 2016 #coralbleaching suffered in 2020.

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

https://t.co/n9K740QgfB

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

@maritechture Like its namesake, it's a tough little beast!

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

@cbenvenuto73 @BahaNick @JezRoff Happy to send it to anyone who's interested! @BahaNick There's definitely a multitude of processes acting at a myriad of spatial and temporal scales, but these theoretical 'safety blankets' are often just used to protect fundamental theories without any empirical justification.

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

Turns out all the colour and movement in the shallows is deceptive, its further down the slope that most of the species hang out. Time to look a little deeper!

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

Classic energy theory fails to explain coral distribution across depth @RSocPublishing https://t.co/lXAq5o2iz4

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

Changes in coral diversity over depth allow a uniquely clear test of some fundamental hypotheses explaining general diversity patterns. It's not always popular to ask hard questions of long held ideas, but a more informative approach is now needed.

https://t.co/8ry8aLET6N

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

Top tip: It's time to stop using depth range as an ecologically relevant factor/trait in corals. If you read between the lines theres food for thought in here, particularly considering most species are rare throughout the majority of their range... https://t.co/uOfajBwmkS

[Ecology @ESAEcology]

#New in @ESAEcology

Resolving the depth #zonation paradox in reef-building #corals

#abundance #range

https://t.co/0DD6IHmfEy

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

Finding out more about adaptive strategy in #corals

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

Got cover images of @nature @CurrentBiology and #EcologyLetters! Now, time to get in as an author! @Tethys_Images

[Ed Roberts @EdRoberts42]

Another paper out! Symbiosis & microbiome flexibility in #GBR #forams @MartinaPrazeres @CoralCoE
https://t.co/XpPQ6B61zd #microbiomejournal