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Evolution of migratory behavior in birds – synthesis with a biogeographical perspective

ByCourtney Glancy

Ms Bela Arora1, Dr. Kasper Thorup1 1Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Birds are known to modify their distributions seasonally. How these movements have evolved and what consequences they have on species distributions are poorly understood. Earlier discussions on the evolution of migratory movements mainly…

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Mesophication from oak to maple: a tree-ring perspective in the forests of eastern United States

ByCourtney Glancy

Mr Tsun Fung Au1, Dr. Justin Maxwell1, Dr. Neil Pederson2, Dr. Grant Harley3, Dr. Matthew Therrell4, Mr. Scott Warner5, Dr. Frank Telewski5, Dr. Scott Robeson1, Dr. Richard Phillips1, Dr. Kimberly Novick1 1Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, 2Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, United States, 3University of Idaho, Moscow, United States, 4University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States,…

The possible role of climate change in bringing a new butterfly species, Euripus nyctelius, to Hong Kong

ByCourtney Glancy

Tsun Fung Au1,2, Dr. Timothy Bonebrake1 1School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States A common response in butterflies to a warming climate is through distribution shifts. Hong Kong has documented records of several new butterfly species in recent decades, comprising tropical species…

Incorporating species redistributions in mechanistic multi-species models: towards a general framework

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Asta Audzijonyte1,2, Dr Rick Stuart-Smith1, Dr Gretta Pecl1,2, Dr Julia Blanchard1,2 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Species redistributions and warming temperatures are occurring in most coastal marine ecosystems, generating a need to understand and predict ecological, fisheries and socio-economic…

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Evaluating the risks and benefits of assisted migration in a stochastic metacommunity

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Gregory Backus1, Dr Marissa Baskett1 1University Of California, Davis, Davis, United States With projected rates of climate change, species that are dispersal-limited and species with narrow thermal tolerance will be especially at risk of extinction. A proposed approach for conserving these climate-threatened species is assisted migration, where populations are moved beyond their historical ranges…

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Integrating genetic and demographic effects of dispersal on population response to a variable environment

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr. Allison Dedrick1, Prof Marissa Baskett2 1Rutgers University, Rutgers, United States, 2University Of California, Davis, Davis, United States Dispersal can have counteracting effects on population response to variable and changing environments.  On one hand, dispersal mobilizes individuals and diversity to increase local response to environmental change.  On the other hand, dispersal can synchronize populations and…

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Argos System and Satellites for Migratory Species Conservation

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Sophie Baudel1, Mr. Yann Bernard1, Mr. Stephan Lauriol 1CLS, Ramonville, France   Argos is the main satellite telemetry system used by the wildlife research community, environmental agencies, NGOs, marine parks, etc. for animal tracking and scientific data collection to observe, analyze and understand large-scale migrations and propose conservation measures. Argos tracking data on hundreds…

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rmaxent: rapid projection and interrogation of Maxent models in R

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr John B Baumgartner1, Dr Peter D Wilson2, Dr Linda J Beaumont1, Dr Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez3 1Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3Western Sydney University, Richmond, Australia Correlative species distribution models (SDMs) are presently the most common tool for predicting habitat suitability. Maxent, a machine-learning regression-type approach to fitting SDMs based…

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Running out of space: management sites for threatened species in New South Wales (Australia) are unlikely to be resilient to climate change

ByCourtney Glancy

Macquarie University Linda Beaumont1, Miss Elissa McFarlane1, Dr Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez1,2, Ms Polly Mitchell3, Dr John Baumgartner1 1Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2Hawkesbury Institute of Environment, Richmond, Australia, 3New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney, Australia In New South Wales (NSW), Australia, the Saving Our Species (SoS) program underpins State Government threatened species conservation…

Going off the deep end: pitfalls of acoustic telemetry beyond scuba depths

ByCourtney Glancy

Mr Stephen Scherrer1, Brendan Rideout2, Giacomo Giorli3, Eva-Marie Nosal2, Kevin Weng4 1Department of Oceanography, University Of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States, 2Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, Honolulu, USA, 3National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand, 4Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of…