Species on the move in Antarctic terrestrial communities

Sharon A. Robinson (1,2), Melinda J. Waterman (1,3), Diana H. King (1,4), Johanna D. Turnbull (1,5), Michael B. Ashcroft (1,6) Jessica Bramley-Alves (1,7), Ellen Ryan-Colton (1,8), Jane Wasley (9) 1Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia, 2sharonr@uow.edu.au, @Antarcticmoss, 3melindaw@uow.edu.au , 4dhk442@uowmail.edu.au, 5johannat@uow.edu.au, 6ashcroft@uow.edu.au, 7jba605@gmail.com, 8ellen.ryan.colton@gmail.com 9Australian Antarctic…

Improving confidence in forecasts of climate-driven range shifts

Damien A. Fordham1, Frédérik Saltré2 1 The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, damien.fordham@adelaide.edu.au,@DamienFordham 2 The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, frederik.saltre@adelaide.edu.au,@FredSaltre Species distribution models (SDMs) are the primary tools used to forecast shifts in geographical range limits and by…

Fine-grained paleoclimate surfaces as a key input to understanding and projecting patterns of biodiversity persistence under climate change

Chris Ware (1), Tom Harwood (1), James Gilmore (1), Simon Ferrier (1) 1 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Land & Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia *chris.ware@csiro.au Paleoclimatic stability has been shown to be fundamental in explaining patterns of biological persistence. Improving our understanding of paleoclimate-persistence relationships is critical to developing…

Predicting and mitigating future biodiversity loss using long-term ecological proxies

Damien A. Fordham (1), H. Resit Akcakaya (2), John Alroy (3), Frédérik Saltre (1), Tom M. Wigley (1), Barry W. Brook (4) 1 The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia 2Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA 3Department of Biological…

Adaptive capacity to ocean acidification along the distribution range of the southernmost South American sea urchin Loxechinus albus

Juan Diego Gaitan-Espitia (1), Leonardo Bacigalupe (2) 1 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIRO, Australia, Hobart, Tas, 7000, juandiego.gaitanespitia@csiro.au 2 Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, 5090000, lbacigalupe@gmail.com Over the next century, global fisheries will face the combined threats of harvest pressure and climate change. All of these factors will affect the abundance, reproduction…

Effects of diluted salinity on the survival, righting reflex and respiration of a marine intertidal isopod, Cirolana harfordi

Umme Salma (1), Murray Thomson (1) (1)The School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia usal2541@uni.sydney.edu.au The marine intertidal isopod C. harfodi is abundantly found in Pacific coastal areas. This species can be a dangerous pest for the fishery industry. It is not known whether C. harfordi is a euryhaline animal and can survive…

Climate change impacts on ecosystems and food: bridging the land-sea divide

Julia L. Blanchard (1,2), Beth Fulton (2,3), John Dunne (4), Joshua Elliott (5), Mario Herrero (6), Petr  Havlik (7), Hermann Lotze-Campen (8), Christoph Müller (9) , Rob Parker (10), Reg Watson (1,2) & Simon Jennings (11,12) 1 Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-49, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia 2 Centre for…

Planning to connect biodiversity areas for wildlife movement

Althena Davidson 1 City of Gold Coast Council, PO Box 5042, GCMC, QLD, 5042, adavidson@goldcoast.qld.gov.au We have all heard of mangroves to mountains, beaches to bushland and hinterland to coast approaches to conservation planning. City of Gold Coast Council is putting this into practice through its Biodiversity Area mapping project that identifies east-west hinterland to…

Seabirds response to climate change in the Southern Ocean

Péron C (1), Jenouvrier S (2), Bost C.A (3), Weimerskirch H (3) 1 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania and Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050 Australia, clara.peron@aad.gov.au 2 Biology Department MS-50, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 USA, sjenouvrier@whoi.edu 3 Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé UMR…

Patterns in phylogenetic diversity reveal the signature of species interactions at the high-latitude range margins of corals

Brigitte Sommer (1), Eugenia Sampayo (2), Peter L. Harrison (3), Russ C. Babcock (4), Maria Beger (5), John M. Pandolfi (6) 1 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia, brigitte.sommer@optusnet.com.au, 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef…