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Conservation & Management
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Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement
- Tayla Leathers: Developing approaches for kelp forest restoration to futureproof UK marine biodiversity. Student poster
- Julius A. Ellrich: Ecological reef restoration: Consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters
- Alexis Terrón-Sigler: The coral corridor: A rewilding approach for the conservation of orange coral (Astroides calycularis) in the western Mediterranean Sea.
- Dani Bandt: Green Gravel Action Group: Reseeding Marine Forests
- Caoimhe Morris: Scaled-up approaches to eco-engineering in marine habitats Student poster
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Science to Policy
- Valerie Teresa Hickey: Harnessing coastal marine activities to enhance marine environmental protection in Ireland through citizen science education and conservation research Student poster
- Gaëlle Legras: EuRockFish pilot: “Toward a European Rocky reef Fish Monitoring Network” (funded by Biodiversa+)
- Elizabeth Hasan: Benthic imagery in reef ecosystems: toward operational Essential Ocean Variables and Essential Biodiversity Variables Student poster
- Simone Farina: Integrative management of sea urchin fisheries: the safe-operating zone between sustainable fishing and marine forests conservation
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Ecosystem Services
- Robyn Mastin-Wynne: In-situ experiments to establish the role that UK kelp forests play in attenuating wave energy Student poster
- Rebekka Uhl: Understanding and predicting the onset of biofouling on cultivated kelp
- Julia Cox: Utilizing Marine Protected Areas as natural fishing exclusion experiments in Southern California’s temperate reefs Student poster
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Diversity & Functioning
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Macroecology
- Marta Prieto del Campo: Environmental stressors shaping rocky intertidal species distribution in Northern Norway Student poster
- Sun Kyeong Choi: Impact of the climate change on Ecklonia cava-dominated kelp forest in South Korea
- Thomas Wright: Assessing the structure and stability of the Mytilus mosaic hybrid zone in the South-West of the U.K. using a lagrangian biophysical transport model Student poster
- Vicente Villalobos: Scale-dependent community assembly processes in Chilean fjord ecosystems Student poster
- Paul Sourice: Inferring associations between marine foundation species and associated fauna: a trait-matching approach Student poster
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Reef-associated Biodiversity
- Thomas Benoit: Marine foundation species support to biodiversity: a systematic review and guidance for new standards Student poster
- Fraser Brough: Ecological Implications of Climate-Driven Shifts in Kelp Species Distributions: A Focus on Stipe-Associated Secondary Foundation Species
- Joel Tan: Partitioning prey refuge from competitive refuge effects in an intertidal algal system Student poster
- Curtis Morris: Quantifying Coralline Algae Diversity and Assessing its Role in Community Structure in the Northwest Atlantic Student poster
- Renata Ramos Gomes: Integrating Acoustic Surveys and Biological Sampling to Characterize Ecosystems: A Case Study in the Alcatrazes Archipelago, São Paulo, Brazil
- Moyses Barbosa: Distribution and Microhabitat Use of Cryptobenthic in Rocky Reefs
- Juan David Silva Macias: Hot spot and Blind spot Analysis of Fish Biodiversity in the Great Southern Reef: a Comparison of Geospatial Interpolation Methods Student poster
- Chau Kei Wong: Hidden gems: unveiling the environment and biodiversity of Hong Kong’s intertidal boulder fields Student poster
- Cesar Cordeiro: Habitat use by herbivorous fish and sea turtles using acoustic telemetry
- Marcos Lucena: Period of the day drives distinctions in the taxonomic and functional structure of reef fish assemblages
- Nora Salland: Climate change impacts on host-microbe interactions in North Pacific kelp forests
- Heather Sugden: Between the tides: Intertidal kelp forests of northeast England
- David Mateus: Stalked or protected - Does the clump size of stalked barnacles influences the diversity and abundance of associated fauna? Student poster
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Biology & Ecophysiology
- Katja Seebass: A year of field monitoring: Temperature and salinity fluctuations drive sea star wasting disease prevalence in Baltic A. rubens Student poster
- Yiyi Li: Effect of ocean acidification on the ecological and physiological responses of two sea urchin species, Echinometra sp. A and Diadema setosum Student poster
- Taihun Kim: Subtropical & Tropical Coral Expansion on Kelp Forest-based Temperate Reefs in Jeju Is. Waters of South Korea
- Sam Karelitz: Transgenerational effects of ocean warming and acidification on developmental stages of the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
- Gunnar Cervin: Effects of environmental factors on growth and biochemical profiles of two red algal species
- Melba Torres Sosa: Microbial Community Assembly on Retrofitted Living Seawalls: Influence of Panel Design and Tidal Height on Early Colonization Student poster
- Mackenzie Moulton: Physiological Responses of Swedish Maerl to pCO2 and Temperature Student poster
- Charlotte Corporeau: Changing the bathymetric level can boost metabolism and immunity in the intertidal oyster Crassostrea gigas
- Sofie Vranken: Life Cycle Variations and Genetic Diversity in the seaweed Dictyota dichotoma: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications
- Maria Inês Seabra: Reproductive patterns of the limpet Siphonaria pectinata: influence of microhabitat and seawater temperature Student poster
- Aníbal Sánchez: Generating ecologically relevant oxygen fluctuations using marine primary producers under laboratory conditions Student poster
- Louise B. Firth: Be Limpet’s Guest – A Tale of Algal Epibionts and Limpet Shells
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Invasion Ecology
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Biogeochemical Cycling
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Macroalgal Traits
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Under-explored Temperate Reefs
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Under-explored reefs
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Biogenic reefs
- Dorothée James: Artificial Intelligence classification of multispectral and multitemporal aerial images for the detection of polychaeta reefs (Sabellaria alveolata)
- Laurine Nogue: Three-quarter century morphological dynamics of the largest honeycomb reef (Sabellaria alveolata) in the world Student poster
- Antoine Collin: 3D architecture evolution of the largest honeycomb reef (Sabellaria alveolata) in the world over two decades
- Antonia Porz: Does inter-annual variability in recruitment affect the abundance, biomass and size of stalked barnacles (Pollicipes pollicipes)? Student poster
- Giusto Lo Bue: Investigating the effects of Microplastic pollution on Sabellaria alveolata (Annelida): A Multi-Proxy approach in a controlled environment Student poster
- Alina Sousa: No effect of timing of exploitation on the abundance of stalked barnacles (Pollicipes pollicipes) after harvesting: a small-scale approach Student poster
- Teresa Cruz: A large-scale macro-predation experiment on stalked barnacles (Pollicipes pollicipes) reefs: effects on abundance, biomass and size
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Ocean Sprawl
- Awantha Dissanayake: Health status assessment of gorgonian species in an artificial reef in Gibraltar’s waters
- Daniel Lopez: From Grey to Green infrastructure: Assessing the Biodiversity on North America’s First Living Seawall Installation Student poster
- Philippe Cugier: Impacts of offshore wind farm development on marine connectivity along the French metropolitan coast: The GreyCo project
- Stefania Piarulli: From floating offshore wind structures to reefs: A comparative analysis on the impact of different mooring designs on settlement patterns and habitat availability for marine benthos
- Florentine Riquet: Understanding the impact of offshore wind farms on the connectivity of marine benthic populations: a case study on Mytilus spp.
- Jack Longsden: ‘The biofouling future’, the impacts of marine heatwaves and climate change on in-situ benthic marine community development Student poster
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Novel Approaches
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Global impacts & Trajectories
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Broad-scale Spatial Patterns
- Ingrid Cárdenas: Changes of coastal vegetation in Portugal 2026 - 2024 Student poster
- Lexi Wilkes: Mapping Kelp Dynamics: Fine-Scale Insights into Saccharina latissima Distribution in the Gulf of Maine Student poster
- Isis Guibert: Climate-Driven Shifts in Organic Matter Decomposition and Microbial Diversity: Transforming Coastal Ecosystems from Carbon Sinks to Sources
- Ryoji Fukui: Development of a method for the quantitative assessment of fish grazing pressure in temperate reefs Student poster
- Joshua Mutter: Advancing Mapping and Monitoring of Canopy-Forming Brown Macroalgae Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Student poster
- Bruno Serranito: Investigating factors shaping epifaunal rocky shore communities using citizen science
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Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts
- Rodrigo Muñoz-Cordovez: Drivers and resilience of urchin barrens in UK kelp forests Student poster
- Marta Román: Anthropogenic influence, thermal patterns and population dynamics of mussel beds on Patagonian intertidal rocky shores
- Jaeseok Chung: Global warming-led spatial competition among kelp forest, coralline algae and hard coral communities in a climatic transition zone (Jeju Island, South Korea) Student poster
- Jaehyeon Kim: Effects of seawater temperature on P:R ratio in temperate kelp forest and tropical hard coral species in Jeju Island, South Korea Student poster
- Hannah Scarlett Earp: Kelp forests of Norway: A mesocosm for global change
- Sofia Urgoiti Crespo: Responses of kelp forest communities to a marine heatwave vary over small spatial scales in a biogeographic transition zone Student poster
- Mirjam van der Mheen: Reduced connectivity between kelp forests under anthropogenic warming
- Diego F. Morales-Torres: The role of diversity in shaping the stability of temperate reef communities exposed to marine heatwaves Student poster
- Carolina Carpenter: Transcriptional profiling of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, spanning water-column gradients in light, temperature, and nutrients Student poster
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Extreme Events
- Halyna Romashko: Assessing the vulnerability of sea urchin early life-stages to marine heatwaves Student poster
- Verdiana Vellani: Evaluation of the biochemical effects of marine heatwaves on the biobuilder species Ficopomatus enigmaticus through a multi-biomarker approach Student poster
- Cristina Gutierrez Marín: Winter Marine Heatwaves on macroinvertebrates associated with kelp Student poster
- Martial Laurans: Laminaria hyperborea, how explain and what happen when the canopy desappeared from some areas?
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