Eastern Pacific Leatherback Turtles: How Satellite Tracking Data Informs Potential Transboundary Management Strategies for a Highly Migratory and Critically Endangered Species

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr George Shillinger1, Aimee Hoover3, Dr. Dong Liang3, Hannah Degenford1,3, Dr. Helen Bailey3 1Upwell, Monterey, United States, 2MigraMar, Mexico City, Mexico, 3University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laborator, Solomons, USA The critically endangered Eastern Pacific leatherback turtle has declined by over 97% since the 1980s and is at risk of regional extinction….

Impact of ocean acidification in shark behavior and physiology

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Rui Rosa1 1MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal New studies have been evaluating the potential effects of end-of-century elevated CO2 levels on sharks and their relatives’ early development, physiology and behaviour. Here, we review those findings and use a meta-analysis approach…

The relative roles of mating system and phylogeny during the evolution of group-living in hystricognath rodents.

ByCourtney Glancy

Raúl Sobrero1, Oscar  Inostroza-Michael2, Cristián E. Hernández2, Luis A. Ebensperger3 1Laboratorio de Ecología de Enfermedades, ICIVET Litoral, UNL/CONICET, Esperanza, Argentina, 2Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, 3Departamento de Ecología, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile The evolution of group living in animals has been generally linked to ecological and phylogenetic drivers or…

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Shady dealings threaten a formidable predator: weeds tip the balance in a cryptic trophic cascade

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Ruchira Somaweera1,2, Dr Blair Bentley2, Dr Nicola J.  Mitchell2, Dr Bruce Webber1,2 1CSIRO Land and Water, Floreat, Australia, 2University of Western Australia , Crawley, Australia Species interactions play a significant role in the resilience of natural ecosystems. Through range shifts and introductions, global environmental change means that novel taxa and their interactions are disrupting…

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Patterns and drivers of high-latitude reef communities along the tropical-to-temperate transition

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Brigitte Sommer1,2, Dr Maria Beger3, Prof John M Pandolfi2,4 1School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, 2School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, 3University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 4ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia Biogeographic…

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A management strategy evaluation of dynamic and static closures in a swordfish fishery: balancing economic and bycatch concerns

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr James Smith1,2, Dr Desiree Tommasi1,2, Dr Michael  Jacox3, Dr Elliot Hazen1,3, Dr Heather Welch1,3, Dr Stephanie Brodie1,3 1University of California Santa Cruz, , United States, 2NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Centre, La Jolla, United States, 3NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Centre, Monterey, United States The dynamic distributions of many marine species complicates their spatial management. Management…

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Trees on the move, or not.

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Josep M Serra Diaz1 1Agroparistech, Nancy, France, 2BIOCHANGE- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World, Aarhus, Denmark Range shifts are taking place in a multitude of organisms, but attributing and predicting range shifts for tree species is a difficult task due to their passive dispersal and long generation times. Shits in tree species…

Detection simplified: delineating climate sensitive zones along the north-western Himalayan rivers

ByCourtney Glancy

Ms Aashna Sharma1, Dr Vineet Dubey1, Dr Jeyaraj Johnson1, Dr Kuppusamy Sivakumar1 1Wildlife Institute Of India, Dehradun, India Macroinvertebrates are brilliant study organisms to understand climate change (CC) effects on the high-altitude lotic systems owing to low dispersal abilities and high environmental specificity. This study aimed at delineating Climate Sensitive Zones (CSZs) zones in Himalayan…

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Impacts of warming on novel and native plant-herbivore interactions across the Mediterranean Sea

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Julia Santana-Garcon1, Dr Scott Bennett1, Dr Núria Marbà1, Dr Adriana Vergés2, Dr Teresa Alcoverro3 1IMEDEA – Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Esporles, Spain, 2The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 3CEAB – Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Blanes, Spain Warming can modify species interactions by (1) generating novel interactions through the introduction of new warmer…

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Hypoxia surpasses the impacts of ocean acidification and warming in marine biota

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Rui Rosa1, Ms Catarina Santos1, Dr Verónica Ferreira2, Dr Hans Pörtner3, Dr Carlos Duarte4, Dr. Lisa Levin5, Mr Eduardo Sampaio1 1MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal, 2MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, Universidade de Coimbra, ,…