Prof Petr Pysek1, Prof Wayne Dawson2, Dr Franz Essl3, Prof Holger Kreft4, Dr Jan Pergl1, Prof Mark van Kleunen5, Dr Patrick Weigelt4, Dr Marten Winter6 1Czech Academy Of Sciences, Institute Of Botany, Pruhonice, Czech Republic, 2School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, 3Division of Conservation, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology, University of…
Dr Nathalie Pettorelli1 1Institute Of Zoology, London, United Kingdom There is a growing recognition that the redistribution of species driven by a changing climate is creating profound challenges for societies and regional economies around the globe. As well as having serious consequences for economic development, livelihoods, food security, human health and culture, species’ redistribution is…
Ms Leanne Phelps1, Dr Manuel Chevalier1, Dr Chris Kiahtipes, Dr Lynne Quick, Dr Basil Davis1, Dr Olivier Broennimann1, Dr Antoine Guisan1 1University of Lausanne, Grandvaux, Switzerland Biodiversity hotspots are prominent across African, and their conservation value is widely acknowledged. However, past interactions between land cover, climate change, and disturbance dynamics – all of which inform…
Dr. Malin Pinsky1, Dr. Anne Maria Eikeset2, Dr. Douglas McCauley3, Dr. Jonathan Payne4, Dr. Jennifer Sunday5 1Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, 2University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 3University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, 4Stanford University, Stanford, United States, 5McGill University, Montreal, Canada Both marine and terrestrial fauna have been impacted by warming,…
Mr Ganesh Puri1, Mr. Ganga Ram Regmi2 1Agriculture And Forestry University, Faculty Of Forestry Nepal, Hetauda, Nepal, 2Global Primate Network Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal The wildlife crime has escalated rapidly, which is one of the most serious threats for survival of globally threatened species. There are very few studies about illegal wildlife trade in Nepal, where…
Prof. Patricio Pliscoff1,2, Mr. Cesar Benavidez2 1Universidad Católica de Chile, Department of Ecology, Santiago, Chile, 2Universidad Católica de Chile, Institute of Geography, Santiago, Chile One of the most common pitfalls when project range distributions using traditional correlative species distribution models (SDM) under future climate change scenarios is the lack of future projections of land use…
Dr Ekaterina Popova1, Prof Warwick Sauer3, Prof David Vousden3, Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed2, Mr Stephen Kelly1, Dr Andrew Yool1 1National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2International Institute for Environment and Development, London, United Kingdom, 3Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Marine ecological connectivity is a complex natural phenomenon linking various components of marine ecosystems in time…
Miss Farrah Powell1,2,4, Dr. Erik Franklin3,1, Dr. Camilo Mora1 1Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, 2Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, 3Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, United States,…
Dr Jeremy Ringma1, Dr Ascelin Gordon1, Ms Stephanie Hogg1, Dr Yan Wang1 1RMIT, St Kilda, Australia Predicting the likely shift in the distribution of species as a result of climate change has become fundamental research question in the field of conservation biology. A climate forecasted species distribution model (SDM) typically functions by creating a model…
Dr Samuel Pironon1, Mr. Ian Ondo1, Ms. Eleanor Hammond-Hunt1, Dr. Tiziana Ulian1, Professor Kathy Willis2 1Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Climate change impacts biodiversity and the associated goods and services humans rely on. Thus, it also has profound effects on human societies across the world. Understanding and…