Feeding ecology or purple urchins
My project looked at the feeding ecology of purple urchins (Heliocidaris erythrygramma). I tested feeding rates on diets of different seaweeds, feeding selectivity between different seaweeds and urchin condition when fed different seaweeds. Read the abstract of my thesis here.
Supervisors: Thomas Wernberg, Thibaut de Bettignies
Qualifications
- 2012: B.Sc. (Marine Science), James Cook University, Australia
Purple urchin feeding on a piece of kelp
Tom’s urchin feeding experiment
Wernberg Lab 