Author: Courtney Glancy

In the late Holocene, Tasmania Aboriginal peoples faced significant challenges in rising sea levels and changing resource economies.  However, rather than a deterrent, the peoples thrived with new resources and Tasmania stands alone as possessing the richest maritime archaeological material in the world.  Critical marine resources have not only shaped the physical landscape of coastal…

(1) Shannen Smith, Jennifer Donelson, Rebecca Fox, David Booth School of Life Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia. shannen.m.smith@student.uts.edu.au Species that are shifting in distribution will often start out as a group of colonizers, where small group size can often mean individual fitness is dramatically reduced. In the case of tropical vagrant fish…

(1) Alistair Hobday, Jason Hartog (1) CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, TAS 7001 Alistair.Hobday@csiro.au Management of ocean spaces has tended to be based on static management approaches including fixed boundaries, despite recognition that the ocean has interannual variability on a range of time scales from daily to seasonal to decadal. An Australian example of…

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…

Michael R. Kearney (1) , Warren P. Porter (2) (1) The University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences, Victoria, 3010 mrke@unimelb.edu.au (2) The University of Wisconsin, School of BioSciences, Victoria, 3010 mrke@unimelb.edu.au Mechanistic niche modelling involves the computation of heat, water and nutritional budgets of organisms as a function of their environments. Such models can be used to make…

Kasper Thorup (1) (1)Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen; Denmark. kthorup@snm.ku.dk, @Kasper_Thorup Regular long-distance migration in birds and many other animals is generally an adaptation to predictable seasonal changes of resources. How migrating birds adjust their migration to fit these changes is poorly…

Jan McDonald (1) Anita Foerster (2), Phillipa McCormack (3) (1) Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7053, jan.mcdonald@utas.edu.au (2) Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7053, anita.foerster@utas.edu.au (3) Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7053, phillipa.mccormack@utas.edu.au Biodiversity offset policies have become a major part of environmental impact assessment and development approval regimes in…

Charlene Janion-Scheepers (1) and Steven L. Chown (2) (1) Monash University, School of Biological Sciences, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia, Charlene.janionscheepers@monash.edu, @cjanion (2) Monash University, School of Biological Sciences, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia, steven.chown@monash.edu, @StevenChown1 Several studies have predicted that climate change will exacerbate the rates and impacts of biological invasions, yet only a handful of empirical…

Nicholas Beeton (1), Jeremy VanDerWal (2) , Rebecca Harris (3), Chris Johnson (1) (1) School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart TAS 7001, nick.beeton@utas.edu.au, @nicktheinsane (2) Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4811, jeremy.vanderwal@jcu.edu.au (3) Antarctic Climate Ecosystems CRC, 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point TAS 7004,…