Please join us for an engaging evening of coral reef science with a cross-generational perspective. The Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station (LIRS) co-director Dr Anne Hoggett will introduce Renato Morais (2017 Lizard Island Doctoral Fellow) and UTS Professor William (Bill) Gladstone. Renato is a young scientist whose first visit to the Great Barrier Reef […]
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Reef fish recruitment and microplastics
My colleagues and I are researching how plastic consumption may affect the transition (recruitment) that fish make from an open water (pelagic) existence to settlement in a coral reef community. Microplastics have been found in the digestive tracts of juvenile coral trout caught at Lizard Island. It is likely fish misidentify these particles as a potential food […]