Joachim Claudet (CNRS) and Craig taught another version of their meta-analysis class (Introduction to Meta-analysis in Ecology) this summer. We were hosted by CCMAR (Universidade do Algarve; Barbara H. Costa and Karim Erzini) and had a great group of students (see the class photo). We usually teach the course with Fio Micheli (Stanford Univ.), but Read More …
Mass mortality of C. maximum in Moorea, French Polynesia
During our July 2015 surveys in Moorea, French Polynesia, we observed a massive mortality event of our focal study organism, Cereasignum (previously Dendropoma) maximum.
MPA Assessment
A new book on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) edited by Joachim Claudet is now available from Cambridge University Press. In chapter 7 of this book, we explore the evaluation of MPAs using different impact assessment designs (Control-Impact, Before-After-Control-Impact, and Before-After-Control-Impact-Paired-Series) as well as the possibility of covarying effects of biogenic habitat and fish populations in affecting estimates of Read More …
Ocean Bridges
Our Ocean Bridges program (funded by the French-American Cultural Exchange’s Partnership University Fund) has been a very successful collaboration between UF (Craig Osenberg’s and Gustav Paulay’s labs) and CRIOBE/University of Perpignan (Suzie Mills’, Serge Planes’, and Rene Galzin’s labs). In recent years, we worked on a symbiosis between coral and its crustacean inhabitants. Pocillopora is a common Read More …