Developing dynamic law and policy for conservation introductions under climate change

Phillipa McCormack (1), Professor Jan McDonald (2), Associate Professor Michael Lockwood (3), Louise Gilfedder (4) 1 Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, 7005, phillipa.mccormack@utas.edu.au, @PhilMack 2 Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, 7005, jan.mcdonald@utas.edu.au 3 School of Land and Food, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, 7005, michael.lockwood@utas.edu.au 4 Sustainable Landscapes Branch,…

Fisheries range shifts: Governance challenges for international management?

Professor Marcus Haward (1) Institute  for    Marine    and    Antarctic    Studies,    University    of    Tasmania,    Private    Bag    129,    Hobart    TAS,    7001,    Marcus.Haward@utas.edu.au      Changes  in    climate,    leading    to    warming    in    the    ocean,    have    consequential    impacts    on    and    likely    changes    to    the    distributions    and    abundance    of    key    marine    species    including    fish.      In    addition    to    ecosystem    oriented  …

Evaluating options for adapting to changing distributions of four key fisheries in South Eastern Australia

Emily Ogier (1), Stewart Frusher (1), Alistair Hobday (2), Sarah Jennings (3), Andrew Sullivan (4), Gretta Pecl (1) 1 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7000, Emily.Ogier@utas.edu.au 2 CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia, 7000 3 Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7005 4 Fish Focus…

Responsibility for the impacts of climate change on tuna fisheries in the South Pacific: what role for international law on trans-boundary harm?

Dr Jeffrey McGee (1), Kerryn Brent (2), and Dr Gail Lugten (3) 1 Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, Marine and Antarctic Law, Faculty of Law and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 89, Sandy Bay, Hobart, TAS, Australia 7001, Jeffery.McGee@utas.edu.au, @gee15_mc 2 PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania,…

Forest community assembly with climate change

Janneke Hille Ris Lambers (1), Leander DL Anderegg (2), Ian Breckheimer (3), Ailene Ettinger(4), Kevin R. Ford (5), Jerry Franklin (6), James Freund (7), Steve Kroiss (8)   1 Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195‐1800, USA, jhrl@uw.edu 2 Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195‐1800, USA, ldla@uw.edu 3 Biology Department, University of Washington,…

Climate change versus other signals influencing spatial and temporal variation in composition and structure of beetle assemblages along an altitudinal transect in southern Tasmania

Lynne Forster (1) and Simon Grove (2) 1 University of Tasmania, Private Bag 98, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Lynette.Forster@utas.edu.au 2 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, GPO Box 1164, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Simon.Grove@tmag.tas.gov.au Altitudinal shifts in the distribution and/or composition of species communities or assemblages are often portrayed as demonstrating early signals of climate change. Mountain-top assemblages are often suggested…

Impacts of moisture availability on species interactions: a test from Western Australia’s York Gum woodlands.

Margaret  M    Mayfield (1),    Janneke    Hille    Ris    Lambers (2),    Claire    Wainwright (3),    Hao    Ran    Lai (4)   1    The    University    of    Queensland,    School    of    Biological    Sciences,    Brisbane,    Qld    4072,    m.mayfield@uq.edu.au,    @MayfieldLabUQ 2    The    University    of    Washington,    Department    of    Biology,    Seattle,    Washington,    USA,    jhrl@uw.edu 3    The    University    of    Queensland,    School    of    Biological    Sciences,    Brisbane,    Qld    4072,  …

Helping Biodiversity Adapt: Supporting climate adaptation planning using a community‐level modelling approach

Suzanne Prober (2), Kristen J Williams (1), Thomas D Harwood (3), Veronica AJ Doerr (4), Talia Jeanneret (5), Glenn Manion (6) and Simon Ferrier (7) 1 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), PO Box 1600, ACT 2601, Australia 2 CSIRO, Private Bag 5, PO Wembley WA Australia 6913, Australia 3 CSIRO, PO Box 1600, ACT…

Rethinking climate change sensitivity: Drivers of spatial variation in thermal safety margins

Scott Bennett (1,2,3) , Thomas Wernberg (1), Francois Dufois (4), Nuria Marba (3), Teresa Alcoverro (5), Bijo Arackal- Joy (1), Thibaut de Bettignies (1), Alexandra Campbell (6,7), Carlos Duarte (8), Dorte Krause-Jensen (9)   1 UWA Oceans Institute (M470) and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009 WA, Australia 2 Department of…

Safety margins for climate warming in a continental flora

Rachael Gallagher (1), Ian J. Wright (1), Mark Westoby (1) 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109 rachael.gallagher@mq.edu.au, @ecolo_gist How resilient are current communities to climate warming? We approach this fundamental question in global change biology using data for the entire higher-plant flora of Australia and a novel niche turnover metric…