Thread by @JNGriffy, Massive congratulations to @treevineseaweed on passing her PhD viva with flying colours [...]

Massive congratulations to @treevineseaweed on passing her PhD viva with flying colours today!!

Huge thanks to the examining board: Andy Foggo @PlymUni and Ruth Callaway @MarineSwansea, and chair Kons Wells @swanscience.

Laura’s PhD tackled functional diversity of seaweeds - using directly measured continuous traits - across environmental gradients.

Imagine this x 10 traits x 100 species. Trait screening was a huge team effort led by @AlizeeMauffrey and @treevineseaweed with contributions from @oak_ottawa and many others including @MarineSwansea grad Josh Mutter

Laura’s first paper documents intra- and interspecific variation in wracks and kelps across environmental gradients https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-019-3574-5

Applying continuous functional traits to large brown macroalgae: varia

Ecologists use a functional trait-based approach to seek a general understanding of organism—environment interactions, but, among primary producers, the empirical basis rests on vascular plants. We...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-019-3574-5

Her (in review) collaboration led by @AlizeeMauffrey challenges traditional groups with continuous trait data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/803965v1.abstract

Traditional functional groups capture limited variation in the trait space of macroalgae

1. Macroalgal (seaweed) beds and forests fuel coastal ecosystems and are rapidly reorganising under global change, but quantifying their functional structure still relies on binning species into...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/803965v1.abstract

Always a pleasure working with @treevineseaweed. We will celebrate properly soon. Well done!!!

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