Dr. Christopher Free1, Dr. Christopher Costello1, Dr. Steven Gaines1, Ms. Tracey Mangin1 1University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA Marine fisheries are shifting distributions and changing productivity in response to climate change. While net global productivity is not expected to change significantly under most emissions scenarios, poleward shifts in species distributions are projected to…
Mr Gary Howling1 1Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Albion Park, Australia Abstract: The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative (GER) was established in 2007 as a bold response to the growing impacts of loss of nature and native species across eastern Australia. Spanning 3,600 kilometres from Cape York and the wet tropics, to the Grampians in western Victoria,…
Dr Benjamin Freeman1, Micah Scholer1, Dr Viviana Ruiz Gutierrez2, Dr John Fitzpatrick2 1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2Cornell University, Ithaca, United States Montane species worldwide are shifting upslope in response to recent temperature increases. These upslope shifts are predicted to lead to mountaintop extinctions of species that live only near mountain summits, but empirical…
A/Prof Ed Couzens1, Assistant Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera2 1University Of Sydney Law School, Camperdown, Australia, 2Faculty of Law University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Abstract: The problem of alien invasive aquatic species introduced to new environments has increased as trade and traffic volume have expanded; and the impacts of such introductions have been, per the IMO,…
Ms Sarah Friesen1, Ms Emily Rubidge2,3, Ms Rebecca Martone4, Ms Karen Hunter5, Ms Natalie Ban1 1University Of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 2Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, Canada, 3University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 4Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Province of British Columbia, Victoria, Canada, 5Pacific Biological Station,…
Dr Catarina Frazão-Santos1,2, Dr Tundi Agardy3, Dr Larry Crowder4, Dr Manuel Barange5, Dr Charles Ehler6,10, Dr Michael Orbach7, Dr Francisco Andrade1, Dr Helena Calado8, Dr Hans Otto-Pörtner9, Dr Rui Rosa1 1MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Center, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 2NOVA School of Business and Economics, NOVA University of Lisbon, Carcavelos, Portugal, 3Sound Seas, Bethesda,…
Dr Lukáš Vejřík1, Ms. Ivana Vejříková1 1Biology Centre Of Czech Academy Of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic Abstract: Apex predators play a key role in ecosystem stability across environments but their numbers in general are decreasing. By contrast, European catfish (Silurus glanis), the European freshwater apex predator, is on the increase mainly due to the…
Dr Taryn Fuentes-Castillo1, Mr. Matthew Kling2, Dr. David Ackerly2,3, Dr. Rosa Scherson4, Dr. Patricio Pliscoff1,5 1Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, 3Jepson Herbarium, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, 4Departamento de Silvicultura, Facultad de Ciencias…
Dr Juan Diego Gaitan-Espitia1 1University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Horseshoe crabs are integral to the coastal estuarine ecosystem of Hong Kong and Asia, providing important ecosystem services (e.g., bioengineers of benthic environments, components of trophic webs). The strong economic demand of HSC, together with the rapid development of coastal areas and other…
Dr Laura Gajdzik1,2, Dr Thomas DeCarlo3, Mr Adam Koziol1, Dr Mahsa Mousavi-Derazmahalleh1, Prof Michael Bunce1, Dr. Joseph DiBattista1,4 1Curtin University, Bentley, Australia, 2King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 3The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, 4The Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia A timely question in ecology is to determine the…