Dr Ismael Núñez-Riboni1, Dr Anna Akimova1 1Thünen-institut Für Seefischerei, Bremerhaven, Germany Matching environmental and fishery data is a fundamental step when modeling fish distributions and marine habitat suitability. In this study, we show how resolution reduction (downsampling) of both fishery and environmental data improves the performance of habitat modeling. We use spatially resolved abundances throughout…
Mr Michael Oke1 1Michael Adedotun Oke Foundation, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeri, Nigeria This flood affected about 10,000 hectares of Farmland and more than 500 farmers were involved. Besides quite a large number of crops like Maize, Rice, Cassava, Plantains, Yams, Banana, Soya beans , Cowpeas , Vegetables and other crops were destroyed. The dates…
Mr Guillermo Ortuño Crespo1 1Duke University, Durham, United States The spatial expansion of marine fisheries into ever more remote High Seas waters entailed novel impacts on oceanic species, which extend beyond the target taxonomic groups. While the importance of the High Seas for the global seafood industry has continued to grow, the regulatory frameworks and…
Mr Roberto Padovani1, Dr Andrew Salisbury2, Ms Helen Bostock2, Dr David Roy3, Professor Chris Thomas1 1The University of York, York, United Kingdom, 2The Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley, United Kingdom, 3The Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom The number of species is increasing in many regions, despite overall declining global biodiversity. These increases are…
Mr Kai Paijmans1, Professor David Booth2, Dr Marian Wong1 1University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, 2University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia Tropical fishes recruiting to temperate regions outside of their native range (hereafter termed vagrants) provide an exciting opportunity to investigate how novel behavioural interactions between displaced and native species are likely to structure future climate…
Mr Juliano Palacios-Abrantes1, Dr. W.W.L. Cheung1 1University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Climate change is shifting the distribution of fish stocks towards areas with cooler environment, generally in higher latitude or deeper water. Such shifts threaten to increase the amount of conflict over resources as stocks move freely in ocean waters crossing human-made management boundaries….
Prof John Pandolfi1, Dr Sun Kim1, Professor Wolfgang Kiessling2 1The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, 2Universität Erlangen−Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany Global warming has the potential to affect a large number of species distributions throughout the world. However, subsets of species show varying propensity for range contractions, expansions or both. Previous work established that reef coral…
Mr Naitik Patel1, Dr Abhijit Das1 1Wildlife Institute Of India, Dehradun, India Himalayan Pit Viper (Gloydius himalayanus) is highest-elevation dwelling snake species in the world. Being physiologically constrained by temperature and humidity coupled with limited vagility makes this snake more vulnerable to climate change. The geological history, species composition and diversity at a latitudinal and…
Mr Jose Ricardo Paula1, Prof. Miguel Araújo2,3,4, Dr. Rui Rosa1 1MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal, 2Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 3Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 4Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History…
Anna K. Miesner2, Dr Mark R. Payne1 1Technical University Of Denmark (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, 2Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany While ecological forecasting is still a field in its infancy, meterologists have been thinking about how to check the validity of their forecasts for more than 50 years. We have…