Dr Andrew Suggitt1, Dr Philip Platts1, Dr Yvonne Collingham2, Prof Calvin Dytham1, Prof Jane Hill1, Prof Brian Huntley2, Prof Chris Thomas1 1University Of York, York, United Kingdom, 2Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Large numbers of species are at accelerating risk of global extinction due to climate change. Although the existence of locations that could buffer…
A/Prof Arie Trouwborst1, Dr Andrew Blackmore2 1Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, , South Africa Predators occupy important but vulnerable positions in ecosystems and face a broad range of (often overlapping) scenarios as a consequence of climate change, including: shrinking and disrupted habitat (e.g., polar bear, wolverine); range shifts, both upslope (e.g., snow leopard)…
Dr Bert Toxopeus1, Drs Luc Boerboom1, Dr Kees de Bie1, Drs Henk Kloosterman1, drs Robert Uhuru1, Dr John Mbaluka Kimeu2, Drs Peter Mwangi3 1University Of Twente, Groningen, Netherlands, 2National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, 3Consultant, Nairobi, Kenya Due to climate change, the amount and frequency of rainfall becomes more unpredictable and extreme drought spells, less…
A/Prof Adriana Verges1, Ines Richter1, Torsten Thomas1, Suhelen Egan1 1UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia The climate-mediated range expansion of tropical, herbivorous fish into temperate regions has profound impacts on temperate reefs, through overgrazing of habitat-forming seaweeds. The mechanisms that control such novel plant-herbivore interactions between tropical consumers and temperate seaweeds are largely unknown, but recent studies…
Mr Matthieu Vignal1, Mr Julien Andrieu2 1UMR 7300 ESPACE, Côte d’Azur University, Nice, France, 2UMR 7300 ESPACE, Côte d’Azur University, Nice, France Climate change should cause changes in plant species distribution. The movement of plant species depends on the succession and the success of their own biological processes. These processes aren’t taken into account in…
Dr Morgan Tingley1, Dr Jacob Socolar1, Dr Steven Beissinger2, Dr Peter Epanchin3 1University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, 2University of California, Berkeley, USA, 3US Agency for International Development, Washington, USA Global change ecology predicts that, under a warming climate, consumers such as birds should shift their geographic distributions to track temperature and should adjust their breeding…
Dr Gary Tabor1, Kathleen Carroll2 1Center For Large Landscape Conservation / IUCN-WCPA Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group, Bozeman, United States 2Montana State University Rapid changes in climate and diminishing biodiversity are challenging the planet’s resilient capacity to respond to large-scale human and natural disturbances. Protected area and species-specific conservation strategies remain the cornerstones of saving…
Dr Mireia Valle1,2, Dr. Benjamin Halpern2, Mr. Casey O’Hara2, Dr. Kristin Kaschner3 1BC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Leioa/Bilbao, Spain, 2National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, Santa Barbara, United States of America, 3Department of Biometry and Environmental Systems Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of species diversity…
Ms Samantha Twiname1, Dr Eva Plaganyi2, Dr Alistair Hobday3,4, Dr Quinn Fitzgibbon1, Professor Chris Carter1, Professor Gretta Pecl1,4 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Taroona, Australia, 2CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Brisbane, Australia, 3CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia, 4Centre for Marine Socioecology, Hobart, Australia Species redistribution’s are one of the most commonly documented changes in…
Dr Ekaterina Vasil’eva1, Dr. Victor Vasil’ev2 1M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Biological Department, Zoological Museum, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation The water systems of the Caucasus demonstrate a high sensitivity even to local climate changes, leading to melting of mountain ice and heavy flooding, as well…