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Cross-scale interactions and the migration of trees

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Stephen Jackson1 1Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, USGS, Tucson, United States, 2Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States Paleoecological studies reveal how abundance and distribution of tree species are governed by interactions of slow and fast ecological processes in a changing environment.  Holocene migrations of several North American species (Juniperus osteosperma, Pinus…

Taking the temperature of human-modified tropical forest landscapes using airborne laser scanning

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Tommaso Jucker1 1CSIRO, Floreat, Australia Microclimatic conditions in forest understoreys play a key role in shaping the composition and function of these ecosystems. Consequently, understanding what drives variation in microclimate is critical to forecasting ecosystem responses to global change, particularly in the tropics where many species already operate close to their thermal limits. To…

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Spatio-temporal scaling of functional diversity change

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Marta Jarzyna1 1The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States Climate change is an intrinsically non-stationary phenomenon in both space and time. To understand when such spatial and temporal non-stationarity is relevant to ecological systems, one must address the issue of spatio-temporal scale dependence of biodiversity change. Despite this realization, scaling—in terms of both space…

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Implications of environmental change on the distribution of imperilled species

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Christine Howard1, Dr Curtis Flather2, Dr Philip Stephens1 1Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, 2USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, United States In this era of rapid environmental change, identifying where biodiversity is at greatest risk and the processes influencing that risk, are key challenges for conservation biology. Concentrations of threatened species may occur where threatening…

The contribution of plasticity and evolution to range shifts under climate change

ByCourtney Glancy

Carla Sgro1 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Range shifts will be a common response to ongoing climate change. The distribution and abundance of species of conservation concern and those with impacts on human health and food security, such as disease vectors and agricultural pests will be affected. The extent to which evolution and phenotypic plasticity might…

Human Migration and Environment: a key issue with few empirical evidences

ByCourtney Glancy

Sabine Henry1 1University of Namur Rising concerns about environmental problems throughout the world have led the scientific community and policy-makers to become increasingly interested in understanding better the linkages between migration and the environment, how these linkages relate to poverty and sustainable development, and what this implies for policy, at local, national and global scales….

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Glideways: Restoring Habitat Connections for Australia’s Iconic Gliding Mammals

ByCourtney Glancy

Mr Gary Howling1, Ms Tandi Spencer-Smith2 1Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Albion Park, Australia, 2Quoll Communications, Sydney, Australia Nine species of gliding possums have been described in Australia. They range in size from the world’s smallest gliding mammal – the Feather-tailed Glider, to one of its largest – the Greater Glider. Almost all have suffered population…

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Towards a better understanding of species responses to climate change by integrating data and approaches across disciplines and scales

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Christian Hof1, Eva Katharina Engelhardt1, Matthias  Biber1, Dr. Imran Khaliq2 1Biodiversity and Global Change Lab, Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Technical University Of Munich, Freising, Germany, 2Department of Zoology, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan Climate change is one of the major drivers of recent biodiversity change. Responses of species to changes in climatic conditions,…

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Climate-change Effects on the Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases in the Arctic

ByCourtney Glancy

Tomas Thierfelder Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Tomas.Thierfelder@slu.se   Introduction: Climate change is considered to have a significant impact on the epidemiology of Arctic infectious diseases, that threatens Arctic societies by terms of socio-economy, culture, health, welfare, security, animal husbandry, and food supply (etc.). With arctic societies being generally dependent on husbandry animals, the…

Inferring past migration: a novel model-based approach to integrating data from genes, fossils, specimens, and environments

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Sean Hoban1, Dr Andria Dawson2, Dr Adam Smith3, Dr John Robinson4, Dr Allan Strand5, Ellie Weise4, Dr Jeanne Romero-Severson6 1The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, United States, 2Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, 3Missouri Botanic Garden, St Louis, USA, 4Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, 5College of Charleston, Charleston, USA, 6University of Notre Dame, South Bend, USA…