Sergio R. Floeter
@SergioFloeter
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Marine biologist, biogeographer, guitar player, reef fish lover
Joined May 2017
New paper alert! Oceanic islands are great places to study how species evolve and disperse because their ecosystems are small and isolated. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean —St Paul’s Rocks, Ascension, and St Helena— are roughly halfway between South America and Africa
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Matéria no G1 - Terra da Gente, sobre o novo artigo liderado pela Isadora Cord que foi publicado no periódico britânico Proceedings of the Royal Society B -
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Estudo mostra que três ilhas remotas formam uma unidade biogeográfica única e guardam linhagens mais antigas que o próprio solo onde vivem.
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RT @lbmm_ufsc: Our new study was just published in Global Ecology and Biogeography. We analyzed diets and distribution of reef fishes world….
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Our new study was just published in Global Ecology and Biogeography. We analyzed diets and distribution of reef fishes worldwide to answer a key question: In what environments do the most ecologically specialized fishes thrive? Delecambre et al. (2025)
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RT @lbmm_ufsc: 🔧🐟 Wrasses using rocks as tools? It's true!. A new study shows tool use in reef fish is more common than we thought with dee….
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RT @ConversationEDU: Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But th….
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Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s not always the case.
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RT @FishBaseProject: 🐟💥 Think tool use is just for humans, birds, or primates? Think again!. New research reveals tropical wrasses smash op….
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Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that smash shellfish against rocks to open and eat the meat, in a fascinating new...
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RT @JamesAl0410008: This continental island is Florianopolis, off the coast of southeastern Brazil, connected to the mainland during the La….
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RT @lbmm_ufsc: Did you know that fish also use tools?. The research led by Juliette Tariel-Adam, titled “Fish Tool Use by New World Halicho….
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The beautiful mesophotic Centropyge boylei (Peppermint angelfish). Depth range 53-120m. I photographed at the Twilight Zone exhibition - California Academy of Sciences
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Nice visit to Giacomo's lab in Santa Cruz! with Bill Ludt and Luiz Rocha
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New paper out: No Sign of Homogenisation in Reef Fish Communities Across an Ecological Transition Zone Exposed to Warming -
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How different can the offspring be from their parents? In reef fishes, we have many examples of juveniles that are very distinct from adults, such as in Acanthurus pyroferus. Photos from Moorea, Polynesia
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