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CESD PhD student Patrick Saldaña from the Altieri Lab has a new blog post at Biodiversity Blog. Check it out and learn how dead corals can host higher biodiversity than live coral habitats.

CESD faculty Andrew Altieri and PhD student Sara Swaminathan have a new paper out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: Resilience of Tropical Ecosystems to Ocean Deoxygenation. Altieri and co-authors suggest that a community and ecosystems perspective that integrates knowledge of organismal physiology with species interactions can reveal new insights into ecological feedbacks and the […]

Christine Angelini, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences, worked with a talented, international team to boost marsh and seagrass restoration success by mimicking emergent traits of coastal plants.

Sydney Williams, an environmental engineering sciences doctoral student, was accepted to the Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship Program and received funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management to research the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve’s (SINERR) water quality changes over the years and provide recommendations. SINERR knows that it […]

From April 11th-14th, CESD Assistant Professor Maitane Olabarrieta hosted an “Estuary Day Workshop.” The workshop had over 30 attendees from 10 countries. It began in Gainesville and ended in St. Augustine.

Cha-ching! Oxygen is the universal currency on coral reefs, and the reef community is divided into the “haves” and “have nots”, and the “givers” and “the takers”. That is the message of a new review paper by Hannah Nelson and CESD’s Andrew Altieri. Dissolved oxygen is highly variable in reef environments, and can limit processes […]

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