The 2019 Species on The Move International Conference was held in Kruger National Park, South Africa, 22 – 26 July 2019.

Presentations

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TUESDAY 23 JULY 2019

THEME TITLE  PRESENTER PRESENTATION PDF
01. Detection, attribution & prediction of changes in species distributions Determining pathways into Antarctica for marine biofouling organisms Arlie McCarthy Presentation
01. Detection, attribution & prediction of changes in species distributions Climate-driven range shifts in the United States: evidence from a hypothesis-driven framework and systematic review Sarah Weiskopf Presentation
05. Conservation paradigms & management strategies for a shifting future Evaluating the risks and benefits of assisted migration in a stochastic metacommunity Gregory Backus Presentation
05. Conservation paradigms & management strategies for a shifting future Running out of space: management sites for threatened species in New South Wales (Australia) are unlikely to be resilient to climate change Linda Beaumont, Polly Mitchell Presentation
07. Cultural, social and economic dimensions of changes in species distributions Vulnerabilities and opportunities in global seafood trade under climate change Christopher Free Presentation
07. Cultural, social and economic dimensions of changes in species distributions Invasive behaviour of European catfish (Silurus glanis), the freshwater apex predator Lukáš Vejrík Presentation
07. Cultural, social and economic dimensions of changes in species distributions Predicted changes in the Western Cape agricultural sector: How will farmers and Blue Cranes be affected? Christie Anne Craig Presentation
07. Cultural, social and economic dimensions of changes in species distributions Geographical variation in sensitivity to wildflower harvesting inferred from range-wide demographic data for 26 proteaceae species Martina Treurnicht Presentation
08. Indigenous knowledge and species on the move Are reindeer the new canaries? – How extractive industries facilitate multiple pressures on an Arctic pastoral ecosystem Christian Fohringer Presentation

 

WEDNESDAY 24 JULY 2019

THEME TITLE  PRESENTER PRESENTATION PDF
01. Detection, attribution & prediction of changes in species distributions Monitoring marine megavertebrates as Essential Ocean Variables in the Global Ocean Observing System: Who, Why, How, and What Next for Implementation? Daniel Costa Presentation
01. Detection, attribution & prediction of changes in species distributions Challenges in quantifying, interpreting and predicting distributional shifts of marine species Tara Marshall Presentation
05. Conservation paradigms & management strategies for a shifting future A management strategy evaluation of dynamic and static closures in a swordfish fishery: balancing economic and bycatch concerns James Smith Presentation
06. Governance, legal and ethical issues for shifting species and changing ecosystems Accounting for shifting distributions in U.S. marine fisheries management: challenges and recommendation Melissa Karp Presentation
06. Governance, legal and ethical issues for shifting species and changing ecosystems Wherever I may roam – adapting international wildlife law to the effects of climate change on wolverines, jackals, cheetahs and other carnivores Arie Trouwborst Presentation
06. Governance, legal and ethical issues for shifting species and changing ecosystems Climate Change Impacts on Protected Area Boundaries: A Speculative Analysis Using African Wild Dogs as a Case Study Andrew Blackmore Presentation

 

THURSDAY 25 JULY 2019

THEME TITLE  PRESENTER PRESENTATION PDF
01. Detection, attribution & prediction of changes in species distributions Pattern or Process: considering space, time, and the environment in species distribution models Stephanie Brodie Presentation
01. Detection, attribution & prediction of changes in species distributions Recalculating route: dispersal constraints will drive the redistribution of Amazon primates in the Anthropocene Lilian Sales Presentation
02. Understanding ecological and evolutionary mechanisms facilitating or hindering range shifts Integrating genetic and demographic effects of dispersal on population response to a variable environment Marissa Baskett Presentation
02. Understanding ecological and evolutionary mechanisms facilitating or hindering range shifts Characterising range expansion potential of tropical vagrant fishes Will Figueira Presentation
04. The paleo-ecological perspective: reconstructing species distributions over multiple millennia Lessons from the past: Reconstructing ecological baselines for the South African terrestrial megafauna using long-term biodiversity data Sophie Monsarrat Presentation

 

FRIDAY 26 JULY 2019

THEME TITLE  PRESENTER PRESENTATION PDF
02. Understanding ecological and evolutionary mechanisms facilitating or hindering range shifts Factors restricting the spread of invasive plants at high latitudes Peter Kotanen Presentation
02. Understanding ecological and evolutionary mechanisms facilitating or hindering range shifts Mixed-species shoaling as a behavioural mechanism facilitating the redistribution of tropical fishes Kai Paijmans Presentation
03. Impacts of climate change on community structure and patterns of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity Shifting daylength regimes associated with range shifts alter aphid-parasitoid community dynamics Rachel Kehoe Presentation
03. Impacts of climate change on community structure and patterns of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity Using spatially explicit, mechanistic vegetation models to study ecosystem stability, extreme events and invasion Wilfried Thuiller Presentation
13. Interactions between multiple stressors and range shifts Synthesizing the impacts of sediment disturbances on marine biodiversity Rafael Almeida Magris Presentation