Operation Wallacea (Opwall)
Operation Wallacea (Opwall) is an organisation, funded by tuition fees, that runs a series of biological and conservation management research programmes in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind – from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes.
What is different about Operation Wallacea is that large teams of ecologists, scientists, academics and postgraduate researchers who are specialists in various aspects of biodiversity or social and economic studies are concentrated at the target study sites.
There are a number of core issues that have been affecting the biodiversity of the reefs some major concerns include: the mass mortality of the keystone Sea urchins that have allowed algal colonisation of reef areas.The Aim of my project is to focus on investigating 'Feeding ecology and habitat preferences of ecologically important Diadema antillarun (Sea urchin)' by using Hondurus as a model system.
What is different about Operation Wallacea is that large teams of ecologists, scientists, academics and postgraduate researchers who are specialists in various aspects of biodiversity or social and economic studies are concentrated at the target study sites.
There are a number of core issues that have been affecting the biodiversity of the reefs some major concerns include: the mass mortality of the keystone Sea urchins that have allowed algal colonisation of reef areas.The Aim of my project is to focus on investigating 'Feeding ecology and habitat preferences of ecologically important Diadema antillarun (Sea urchin)' by using Hondurus as a model system.