#bryozoan — Public Fediverse posts

….aaaand our latest paper is finally published! 🥳

First author Mira Baer used #IndividualBasedSimulations to forecast
#bryozoan assemblage dynamics under #ClimateChange. She demonstrates how the duration of the growing season and the spatial distribution of predation events jointly affect successional patterns.

Such a nice Easter egg! 🐣 Congratulations, Mira!! 🎉

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380026001055

….aaaand our latest paper is finally published! 🥳

First author Mira Baer used #IndividualBasedSimulations to forecast
#bryozoan assemblage dynamics under #ClimateChange. She demonstrates how the duration of the growing season and the spatial distribution of predation events jointly affect successional patterns.

Such a nice Easter egg! 🐣 Congratulations, Mira!! 🎉

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380026001055

….aaaand our latest paper is finally published! 🥳

First author Mira Baer used #IndividualBasedSimulations to forecast
#bryozoan assemblage dynamics under #ClimateChange. She demonstrates how the duration of the growing season and the spatial distribution of predation events jointly affect successional patterns.

Such a nice Easter egg! 🐣 Congratulations, Mira!! 🎉

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380026001055

….aaaand our latest paper is finally published! 🥳

First author Mira Baer used #IndividualBasedSimulations to forecast
#bryozoan assemblage dynamics under #ClimateChange. She demonstrates how the duration of the growing season and the spatial distribution of predation events jointly affect successional patterns. Such a nice Easter egg! 🐣

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380026001055

🚨 New #preprint online! 🚨

"Forecasting #bryozoan assemblage dynamics under simulated #ClimateChange" by Mira Baer et al.

We use an #IndividualBasedModel to explore potential future bryozoan assemblage dynamics. We show that successional patterns strongly depend on the duration of the growing season as well as on the spatial distribution of predation events - which are both likely to change due to #ClimateWarming...

👉🏻 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685734v1

#EcologicalModelling
#ComputationalEcology

🚨 New #preprint online! 🚨

"Forecasting #bryozoan assemblage dynamics under simulated #ClimateChange" by Mira Baer et al.

We use an #IndividualBasedModel to explore potential future bryozoan assemblage dynamics. We show that successional patterns strongly depend on the duration of the growing season as well as on the spatial distribution of predation events - which are both likely to change due to #ClimateWarming...

👉🏻 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685734v1

#EcologicalModelling
#ComputationalEcology

🚨 New #preprint online! 🚨

"Forecasting #bryozoan assemblage dynamics under simulated #ClimateChange" by Mira Baer et al.

We use an #IndividualBasedModel to explore potential future bryozoan assemblage dynamics. We show that successional patterns strongly depend on the duration of the growing season as well as on the spatial distribution of predation events - which are both likely to change due to #ClimateWarming...

👉🏻 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685734v1

#EcologicalModelling
#ComputationalEcology

🚨 New #preprint online! 🚨

"Forecasting #bryozoan assemblage dynamics under simulated #ClimateChange" by Mira Baer et al.

We use an #IndividualBasedModel to explore potential future bryozoan assemblage dynamics. We show that successional patterns strongly depend on the duration of the growing season as well as on the spatial distribution of predation events - which are both likely to change due to #ClimateWarming...

👉🏻 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685734v1

#EcologicalModelling
#ComputationalEcology

A fossilized Bryozoan sea mat from over 300 million years ago and a couple of ones I found growing on some seaweed a few weeks back. Relatively unchanged after all that time!!
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A fossilized Bryozoan sea mat from over 300 million years ago and a couple of ones I found growing on some seaweed a few weeks back. Relatively unchanged after all that time!!
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #bryozoan #biodiversity #marinelife #Ireland

A fossilized Bryozoan sea mat from over 300 million years ago and a couple of ones I found growing on some seaweed a few weeks back. Relatively unchanged after all that time!!
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #bryozoan #biodiversity #marinelife #Ireland

Fossilized Bryozoan sea mats and some Crinoid discs. Sea mats are colonial invertebrates that leave behind calcareous skeletons that can look like lace or mesh. These particular fossilized ones are over 300 million years old.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#Ireland

Fossilized Bryozoan sea mats and some Crinoid discs. Sea mats are colonial invertebrates that leave behind calcareous skeletons that can look like lace or mesh. These particular fossilized ones are over 300 million years old.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#Wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #bryozoan
#Ireland

Fossilized Bryozoan sea mats and some Crinoid discs. Sea mats are colonial invertebrates that leave behind calcareous skeletons that can look like lace or mesh. These particular fossilized ones are over 300 million years old.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#Wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #bryozoan
#Ireland

The ruins of an underwater kingdom are a gateway to the world of an amazing creature! Come and meet a #Bryozoan… #MarineLife #NaturePhotography sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/that-time-...

That Time I Met a Bryozoan

The ruins of an underwater kingdom are a gateway to the world of an amazing creature! Come and meet a #Bryozoan… #MarineLife #NaturePhotography sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/that-time-...

That Time I Met a Bryozoan

The ruins of an underwater kingdom are a gateway to the world of an amazing creature! Come and meet a #Bryozoan… #MarineLife #NaturePhotography sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/that-time-...

That Time I Met a Bryozoan

A dried up piece of seaweed, covered in a dried out Bryozoan sea mat. A Sea mat is a colony of made up of individual zooids (a singular Bryozon).
County Clare, Ireland.

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A dried up piece of seaweed, covered in a dried out Bryozoan sea mat. A Sea mat is a colony of made up of individual zooids (a singular Bryozon).
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bryozoan #bryozoanseamat #Ireland

A dried up piece of seaweed, covered in a dried out Bryozoan sea mat. A Sea mat is a colony of made up of individual zooids (a singular Bryozon).
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bryozoan #bryozoanseamat #Ireland

Pieces of fossilized Bryozoan sea mats, like fine lace netting.
Despite their delicate appearance, they have managed to survive intact in these rock layers for over 300 million years.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #bryozoan #seamat #Ireland

Pieces of fossilized Bryozoan sea mats, like fine lace netting.
Despite their delicate appearance, they have managed to survive intact in these rock layers for over 300 million years.
County Donegal, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #bryozoan #seamat #Ireland

Pieces of fossilized Bryozoan sea mats, like fine lace netting.
Despite their delicate appearance, they have managed to survive intact in these rock layers for over 300 million years.
County Donegal, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #bryozoan #seamat #Ireland

More context: Franzi studied #structure-#stability relations in #competition #networks, using #bryozoan assemblages as study systems. She could show that #hierarchy mitigates network #instability by keeping self-reinforcing #feedback relatively weak.

👉🏻 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05060-1

More context: Franzi studied #structure-#stability relations in #competition #networks, using #bryozoan assemblages as study systems. She could show that #hierarchy mitigates network #instability by keeping self-reinforcing #feedback relatively weak.

👉🏻 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05060-1

More context: Franzi studied #structure-#stability relations in #competition #networks, using #bryozoan assemblages as study systems. She could show that #hierarchy mitigates network #instability by keeping self-reinforcing #feedback relatively weak.

👉🏻 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05060-1

Overlapping Bryozoan sea mats on a large kelp frond. These are colonies of individual animals called zooids that attach them selves to seaweeds and other surfaces.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Overlapping Bryozoan sea mats on a large kelp frond. These are colonies of individual animals called zooids that attach them selves to seaweeds and other surfaces.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bryozoan #seamat #Ireland

Overlapping Bryozoan sea mats on a large kelp frond. These are colonies of individual animals called zooids that attach them selves to seaweeds and other surfaces.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bryozoan #seamat #Ireland

Encrusted shore stones.
A mix of Keelworm casings, Coralline algae and Bryozoans coat these stones giving each its very own texture and colour combination.
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #keelworm #algae #bryozoan #Ireland

Encrusted shore stones.
A mix of Keelworm casings, Coralline algae and Bryozoans coat these stones giving each its very own texture and colour combination.
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #keelworm #algae #bryozoan #Ireland

Encrusted shore stones.
A mix of Keelworm casings, Coralline algae and Bryozoans coat these stones giving each its very own texture and colour combination.
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #keelworm #algae #bryozoan #Ireland

A scattering of fossilized Crinoid segments and Bryozons like a spilled watchmakers toolbox.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway
#walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #crinoid #bryozoan #Ireland

A scattering of fossilized Crinoid segments and Bryozons like a spilled watchmakers toolbox.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway
#walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #crinoid #bryozoan #Ireland

A scattering of fossilized Crinoid segments and Bryozons like a spilled watchmakers toolbox.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway
#walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #crinoid #bryozoan #Ireland

A scattering of fossilized Crinoid segments and Bryozons like a spilled watchmakers toolbox.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway
#walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #crinoid #bryozoan #Ireland

A Blue-rayed Limpet (Patella pellucida) shell with an Bryozoan sea matt encrusting, topped with a Keel worm (Spirobranchus triqueter) casing.
It gets even better, with a polished midnight blue interior 😍
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bluerayedlimpet #keelworm #bryozoan #Ireland

A Blue-rayed Limpet (Patella pellucida) shell with an Bryozoan sea matt encrusting, topped with a Keel worm (Spirobranchus triqueter) casing.
It gets even better, with a polished midnight blue interior 😍
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bluerayedlimpet #keelworm #bryozoan #Ireland

A Blue-rayed Limpet (Patella pellucida) shell with an Bryozoan sea matt encrusting, topped with a Keel worm (Spirobranchus triqueter) casing.
It gets even better, with a polished midnight blue interior 😍
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bluerayedlimpet #keelworm #bryozoan #Ireland

A Blue-rayed Limpet (Patella pellucida) shell with an Bryozoan sea matt encrusting, topped with a Keel worm (Spirobranchus triqueter) casing.
It gets even better, with a polished midnight blue interior 😍
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bluerayedlimpet #keelworm #bryozoan #Ireland

An assortment of Bryozoan fossils from the Carboniferous period (over 300 million years ago). County Donegal, Ireland.

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An assortment of Bryozoan fossils from the Carboniferous period (over 300 million years ago). County Donegal, Ireland.

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An assortment of Bryozoan fossils from the Carboniferous period (over 300 million years ago). County Donegal, Ireland.

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A fossilized jumble of marine creature body parts - mostly Crinoids and Bryozoans with some other bits mixed in. County Donegal, Ireland.

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A fossilized jumble of marine creature body parts - mostly Crinoids and Bryozoans with some other bits mixed in. County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossils #irishfossils #Crinoids #Bryozoan #Ireland

A fossilized jumble of marine creature body parts - mostly Crinoids and Bryozoans with some other bits mixed in. County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossils #irishfossils #Crinoids #Bryozoan #Ireland

Reading recommendation: My team member Franziska Koch wrote a blog post about her recent field trip to Scotland, where she collected more samples of #bryozoan assemblages for her PhD project: "The boulderfields of Loch Melfort Shallows are bursting with life"

Enjoy!

https://www.kilchoanestate.co.uk/ecological-restoration/bas-bryozoans-expedition-july-2023/

Reading recommendation: My team member Franziska Koch wrote a blog post about her recent field trip to Scotland, where she collected more samples of #bryozoan assemblages for her PhD project: "The boulderfields of Loch Melfort Shallows are bursting with life"

Enjoy!

https://www.kilchoanestate.co.uk/ecological-restoration/bas-bryozoans-expedition-july-2023/

More fossilized Crinoid pieces (disc shaped pieces), some bryozoan (net like fragments) and this hexagonal bit that I am unsure of - part of a Crinoid calyx?? or a trilobite eye?? all suggestions welcome.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossils #irishfossils #Crinoid #Bryozoan #Carboniferous #irelandtravel #Ireland

More fossilized Crinoid pieces (disc shaped pieces), some bryozoan (net like fragments) and this hexagonal bit that I am unsure of - part of a Crinoid calyx?? or a trilobite eye?? all suggestions welcome.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossils #irishfossils #Crinoid #Bryozoan #Carboniferous #irelandtravel #Ireland

More fossilized Crinoid pieces (disc shaped pieces), some bryozoan (net like fragments) and this hexagonal bit that I am unsure of - part of a Crinoid calyx?? or a trilobite eye?? all suggestions welcome.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossils #irishfossils #Crinoid #Bryozoan #Carboniferous #irelandtravel #Ireland

Bryozoan sea mats on dried out Kelp fronds. These colonies of individual zooids are known as Bryozoans. When living each tiny cell in this lace-like structure would have contained an individual zooid. County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #marinelife #biodiversity #Bryozoan #zooids #seamat #Ireland

Bryozoan sea mats on dried out Kelp fronds. These colonies of individual zooids are known as Bryozoans. When living each tiny cell in this lace-like structure would have contained an individual zooid. County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com Walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #marinelife #biodiversity #Bryozoan #zooids #seamat #Ireland

Bryozoan sea mats on dried out Kelp fronds. These colonies of individual zooids are known as Bryozoans. When living each tiny cell in this lace-like structure would have contained an individual zooid. County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #marinelife #biodiversity #Bryozoan #zooids #seamat #Ireland

A Bryozoan sea mat (Membranipora membranacea - possibly?) that had grown on a Kelp frond. Washed up together on the high tide line. They are colonies of small marine creatures called zooids that filter feed on drifting plankton.
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #Bryozoan #Ireland

A Bryozoan sea mat (Membranipora membranacea - possibly?) that had grown on a Kelp frond. Washed up together on the high tide line. They are colonies of small marine creatures called zooids that filter feed on drifting plankton.
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #Bryozoan #Ireland

Three animals that look like seaweed. From left to right, sponge (mermaid’s glove), bryozoan (hornwrack), hydroid (unsure of species, maybe helter skelter).
All found on the beach this morning.

#marinebiology #marinebiologyuk #northnorfolkcoast #northsea #sea #ocean #biology #wildlife #nature #intertidal #bryozoan #hydroid #sponge

Three animals that look like seaweed. From left to right, sponge (mermaid’s glove), bryozoan (hornwrack), hydroid (unsure of species, maybe helter skelter).
All found on the beach this morning.

#marinebiology #marinebiologyuk #northnorfolkcoast #northsea #sea #ocean #biology #wildlife #nature #intertidal #bryozoan #hydroid #sponge

Three animals that look like seaweed. From left to right, sponge (mermaid’s glove), bryozoan (hornwrack), hydroid (unsure of species, maybe helter skelter).
All found on the beach this morning.

#marinebiology #marinebiologyuk #northnorfolkcoast #northsea #sea #ocean #biology #wildlife #nature #intertidal #bryozoan #hydroid #sponge

Three animals that look like seaweed. From left to right, sponge (mermaid’s glove), bryozoan (hornwrack), hydroid (unsure of species, maybe helter skelter).
All found on the beach this morning.

#marinebiology #marinebiologyuk #northnorfolkcoast #northsea #sea #ocean #biology #wildlife #nature #intertidal #bryozoan #hydroid #sponge