Dr Mark Payne1 1Technical University Of Denmark (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark A unique but rarely appreciated characteristic of the Ocean is its high predictability: today it is possible to reliably forecast the physical state of the Ocean months, years and even a decade or more into the future. If these physical forecasts can be translated…
Mr Jose Ricardo Paula1, Prof. Miguel Araújo2,3,4, Dr. Rui Rosa1 1MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal, 2Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 3Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 4Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History…
Mr Kai Paijmans1, Professor David Booth2, Dr Marian Wong1 1University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, 2University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia Tropical fishes recruiting to temperate regions outside of their native range (hereafter termed vagrants) provide an exciting opportunity to investigate how novel behavioural interactions between displaced and native species are likely to structure future climate…
Dr Steven Pennings1, Dr. Zoe Hughes2, Dr. John Kominoski3, Rachael Glazner4, Anna Armitage4 1University Of Houston, Houston, United States, 2Boston University, Boston, United States, 3Florida International University, Miami, United States, 4Texas A&M University Galveston Campus, Galveston, United States Intertidal wetlands are dominated by a limited number of plant species that often function as foundation species,…
Mr Albert Pessarrodona1, Dr Dan Smale2, Dr Andrew Foggo3, A/Prof Thomas Wernberg1 1University Of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2The Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, UK, 3University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK Contemporary climate change is reorganizing the composition of ecological communities by inducing species migrations (range shifts), with migrant thermally-tolerant species often becoming competitively…
Mr Muhammad Mumtaz1 1Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil This study is conducted to understand the adaptation strategies to preserve ecosystem by looking the case of mangrove forests in Sindh coastal region of Pakistan. The Sindh coastal region is located in the southeastern part of the country and is about 350 km long. This…
Christine Crawford1, Hannah Fogarty1,2, Stewart Frusher2, Alistair J Hobday2,4, Sarah Jennings2,3, John Keane1, Emma Lee2,5, Catriona MacLeod1,2, Craig Mundy1, Emily Ogier1,2, Prof Gretta Pecl, Jemima Stuart-Smith1, Sean Tracey1, Ingrid van Putten4 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Sandy Bay, Australia, 2Centre for Marine Socioecology, Sandy Bay, Australia, 3Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, Sandy Bay,…
Mr Michael Oke1 1Michael Adedotun Oke Foundation, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeri, Nigeria This flood affected about 10,000 hectares of Farmland and more than 500 farmers were involved. Besides quite a large number of crops like Maize, Rice, Cassava, Plantains, Yams, Banana, Soya beans , Cowpeas , Vegetables and other crops were destroyed. The dates…
Mr Shane D Morris1, Prof Chris N Johnson1, Dr Katherine E Moseby2, Prof Barry W Brook1 1University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Conservation translocation – the deliberate movement of an organism from one area to another to achieve a conservation benefit— has become increasingly important as an active response…
Miss Patricia Peinado1, Dr Quinn Fitgibbon1, Dr Sean Tracey1, Dr Jayson Semmens1, Dr Gretta Pecl l1 1IMAS, University Of Tasmania , Sandy Bay, Australia Marine communities are likely to be particularly vulnerable to the climate-driven changes in the geographical distribution of species. Modification of species distributions can lead to new species interactions which could have…