Dr. Victoria Martin1, Dr. Richard Stedman2, Dr. Bruce Lewenstein2, Dr. Emma Greig1, Dr. Jonathon Schuldt2 1Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, U.S.A., 2Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A. Our collective knowledge about species range shifts has been greatly improved by citizen science approaches to data collection and analysis. By harnessing the efforts of participants, citizen science has been…
Miss Laura Merritt1,2, Professor Justin Travis3, Miss Isabel Schödl5, Professor Tom Oliver2, Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez4, Dr Steven White1, Professor James Bullock1 1Centre For Ecology And Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, 2University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, 3University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 4University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany One response of…
Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop1 1University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Good policy decisions about the marine environment are based on scientific evidence. Working across the science-policy interface is challenging, however, as these two different communities have separate objectives, ways of communicating, areas of expertise, and even disparate languages. Understanding and communicating climate-driven changes in marine biodiversity…
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…
Prof Guy Midgley1, Ms Kerry Grey2, Prof Wendy Foden3 1Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3South African National Parks, Cape Town, South Africa The desert tree succulent, Aloidendron dichotomum, occupies a large geographic range stretching between southwestern South Africa and northern Namibia, encompassing both summer and winter rainfall…
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…
Mr Mark McGrouther1 1Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia Citizen scientists are making a significant contribution to our documentation of species range shifts. The iNaturalist website, run by the California Academy of Sciences, contains more than 14 million observations of ‘life’ that have been uploaded by over 400,000 people. Australasian Fishes is an iNaturalist project that started…
Dr Anthony R. Marshak1, Dr Kenneth L. Heck, Jr.2 1ECS Federal LLC In Support Of NOAA Fisheries, Washington, United States, 2Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States Large and apparently unprecedented increases in the abundance of juvenile gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus), lane snapper (L. synagris), groupers and other tropically-associated fishes within northern Gulf of…
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…
Dr Tara Marshall1, Dr Asta Audzijonyte2, Dr Alan Baudron1, Dr Curtis Champion2, Dr Niall Fallon1, Dr Alan Haynie3, Dr Melissa Haltuch4, Dr Bryony Townhill5, Dr Pieter Daniël van Denderen6, Prof Gretta Pecl2, Dr John Pinnegar5, Prof Malin Pinsky7, Dr Paul Spencer3, Dr Christine Stawitz8, Dr Jim Thorson3 1University Of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2University of…