Publications - Marjolijn Christianen

Optimism for mitigation of climate warming impacts for sea turtles through nest shading and relocation

Our research published this week in Scientific Reports reported effective conservation strategies that can mitigate the impacts of climate warming on sea turtle nesting success, #oceanoptimism.

3 cool new papers!

A short update to announce that 3 new co-authored papers have been accepted this month!

New paper: Food web indicators for conservation succes

New! Review on herbivory on freshwater & marine macrophytes

Grazing is an important driver of ecosystem functioning! Not only in seagrass ecosystems :). This paper is a result of a very nice collaboration with Liesbeth Bakker and other colleagues working on herbivory in other ecosystems. Paper highlights:

Green turtles threaten their own food source in MPAs: New paper Proceedings B

Our new paper is out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! Green turtle populations have expanded so much in Indonesia’s east coast islands marine protected areas that they are adopting new feeding habits, degrading the ecosystem and threatening their own conservation. Read more about “Habitat collapse due to overgrazing threatens turtle conservation in marine protected …

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Notes from the field: Barang Lompo, South Sulawesi

This time my colleague from Singapore Siti Yaakub wrote up a story on a recent check of the seagrass near Makassar, Sulawesi. With my photo’s next to it. Enjoy it on the Seagrass Online site!

Article in Seagrass Watch

I was delighted to be requested to provide an article for Seagrass Watch magazine. The articles is published in the November issue. You can download the issue from their site (my article is on page 6) or download directly from the Seagrass Watch site (big pdf of 22MB). Enjoy the reading!

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