Poster Session preceded by Group Photo

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Johanna Sophie Zimmerhackel: The value of recovering Norway’s kelp forests

• 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
  • Jordi Sola: Resolving the Context-Dependency of Local Heterogeneity-Diversity Relationships across Rocky Reefs Worldwide

• 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
  • 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

• 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
  • 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
  • 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

• Invasion Ecology

  • Jean-Charles Leclerc: The age dependent invasibility of assemblages concurs with the functional distinctness within a marine urban species pool
  • Natalia Aga Milovic: Abundance and Distribution of Native and Exotic Kelp Forests in Patagonia (South West Atlantic, Argentina)

• Biogeochemical Cycling

  • Erwan Quéméré: Diving deep into kelp forest food webs using dietary DNA metabarcoding
  • Jahangir Vajedsamiei: Mytilus mussel patches and reefs as carbon modulators in the Baltic Sea: Insights from the STATUS project

• Macroalgal Traits

  • Millie Parks: Handbook for the standardised measurement of seaweed functional traits
  • Abrar Shakil: Reproductive and morphological traits through the seasons in fucoid seaweeds along a South Wales (UK) coast Student poster

• Under-explored reefs

  • João N. Franco: Kelp Forests in Deep-Water Habitats at the Gorringe Ridge
  • Emma Donald: Shifting community dynamics of mesophotic marine benthos facing multiple climate stressors
  • Alejandro Perez-Matus: Mapping mesophotic reefs along the coast of Chile (Southeastern Pacific) using fishers´ knowledge

• 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
  • Teresa Cruz: A large-scale macro-predation experiment on stalked barnacles (Pollicipes pollicipes) reefs: effects on abundance, biomass and size

• 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

• Novel Approaches

  • Charlotte Underwood: Aquatic Pollution from Light and Anthropogenic Noise (AquaPLAN) shaping temperate rocky shores
  • Mar Humet: Non-invasive monitoring of thermal stress in Patella depressa: insights into physiological responses to temperature Student poster

• Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

  • Ingrid Cárdenas: Use of remote sensing to identify vegetation in coastal areas 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

• Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

  • Rodrigo Muñoz-Cordovez: Drivers and resilience of urchin barrens in UK kelp forests Student poster
  • María M. Mendez: 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
  • 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

• 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?