Dr Santiago Martínez Medina1, Mscs Talía Waldrón1, Msc Emmerson Pastás1 1Alexander von Humboldt Institute, Bogota , Colombia The following intervention presents the results of the joint effort between the communities of the Saliba indigenous people of Orocue, Casanare, with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute. In the year 2017, the community contacted the Institute seeking collaboration…
Dr Mohlamatsane Mokhatla1,2, Dr John Measey2, Dr Dennis Rödder3 1South African National Parks, Sedgefield, South Africa, 2Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB), Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 3Zoologische Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany Changes in climate have had an overriding influence on species distribution throughout time. The manner in which…
Dr Katherine Mills1, Dr. Justin Schuetz1, Mr. Andrew Allyn1, Dr. Andrew Pershing1 1Gulf Of Maine Research Institute, Portland, United States Studies of climate-related species range shifts typically focus on changes in range centroids relative to mean annual temperatures for species as a whole. While this approach provides a broad-scale indication of distribution shifts and their…
Dr RAFAEL Magris1,2, Prof Natalie Ban2 1Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, Brasília, Brazil, 2School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Sediment disturbances are one of the most important threats affecting many marine species and causing profound ecological shifts. With an increase in suspended sediment concentration and deposition, alterations of the physical and…
Dr Cristián Monaco1, Dr Ivan Nagelkerken1, Dr David Booth2, Dr Corey Bradshaw3, Dr Bronwyn Gillanders1, Dr David Schoeman4 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 2University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia, 4University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Australia Climate change is driving shifts in the distribution of many species globally as…
Dr. Katherine Mills1, Dr. Michael Alexander2, Mr. Andrew Allyn1, Dr. Lisa Colburn3, Dr. Steve Eayrs1, Dr. Bradley Franklin1, Dr. Troy Hartley4, Ms. Mary Hudson1, Mr. Brian Kennedy1, Ms. Sabrina Kerin1, Mr. Jonathan Labaree1, Dr. Andrew Pershing1, Dr. James Scott2, Dr. Jenny Sun5 1Gulf Of Maine Research Institute, Portland, United States, 2NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,…
Dr Phillipa Mccormack1 1Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Centre for Marine Socioecology, Hobart, Australia The effect of 1°C of global warming is already apparent on terrestrial, freshwater and marine biodiversity all over the world. In its latest report, the IPCC has described the implications of an additional 0.5 or 1°C of warming…
Ms Arlie Mc Carthy1, Prof Lloyd Peck2, Dr David Aldridge1 1Zoology Department, University Of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom Vectors and pathways for marine species moving into the Southern Ocean and Antarctic region are extremely poorly understood, making it difficult to attribute them to certain pathways or mechanisms (i.e. anthropogenic…
Dr Mariana Mayer-pinto1, Dr Katherine Dafforn2, Professor Emma Johnston1 1University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 3University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Urbanised systems across the globe are under growing pressure from local and global stressors as pollution and climate change. Although the rapidly growing coastal human footprint is a…
Dr Tom Mason1, Dr Philip Stephens1, Dr Christine Howard1, Dr Chris Hewison2, Dr Stephen Baillie2, Dr James Pearce-Higgins2, Professor Stephen Willis1 1Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, 2British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, United Kingdom Globally, many migratory species are experiencing more rapid rates of population decline than their resident counterparts, yet little progress has been made…