03. Impacts of climate change on community structure and patterns of taxonomic functional and phylogenetic diversity

Miss Alexia Graba-Landry1, Prof. Morgan  Pratchett1, Dr.  Andrew Hoey1 1ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Coral reefs are threatened by climate change as they are sensitive to increasing ocean temperatures. Herbivorous fishes play a key ecological role on coral reefs by cropping algae, allowing for recruitment and growth…

Dr André Frainer1, Raul  Primicerio2, Michaela Aschan2, Maria  Fossheim3, Andrey Dolgov4 1Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Tromsø, Norway, 2UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, 3Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Tromsø, Norway, 4Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Murmansk, Russia Climate change affects species distribution, with observed rapid effects…

Dr Anna Eklöf1 1Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden When species shift distributions due to changed climatic conditions novel species interactions are formed. Several species may simultaneously enter new areas and there establish in a new ecological network consisting of  hundreds of new species. One key question when aiming to understand species range shifts are if and…

Ms Eva Katharina Engelhardt1, Mr Matthias Biber, Dr. Christian Hof 1Biodiversity & Global Change Lab, Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Technical University of Munich, Germany, Freising, Germany Changes in climate and land-use are considered to have considerable impacts on different levels of biodiversity, associated with rapid declines in many populations, range shifts, and changes in species…

Miss Katie Cook1, Dr James Reimer2, Dr Brigitte  Sommer3,4, Mr Masaru Mizuyama2, Mr Iori Kawamura2, Dr Masami Obuchi2,4, Dr Mark Miller1, Professor Piers Forster1, Dr  Maria Beger1,4 1University Of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2University of The Ryukyus, , Japan, 3The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia , 4The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Australia Environmental and…