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Biodiversity in a shifting sea: challenges and solutions for working across the science-policy interface

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop1 1University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Good policy decisions about the marine environment are based on scientific evidence. Working across the science-policy interface is challenging, however, as these two different communities have separate objectives, ways of communicating, areas of expertise, and even disparate languages. Understanding and communicating climate-driven changes in marine biodiversity…

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Dispersal kernels for predicting animal movement patterns

ByCourtney Glancy

Miss Laura Merritt1,2, Professor Justin Travis3, Miss Isabel Schödl5, Professor Tom Oliver2, Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez4, Dr Steven White1, Professor James Bullock1 1Centre For Ecology And Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, 2University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, 3University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 4University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany One response of…

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Is the geographic range of the desert tree, Aloidendron dichotomum, shifting in response to climate change?

ByCourtney Glancy

Prof Guy Midgley1, Ms Kerry Grey2, Prof Wendy Foden3 1Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3South African National Parks, Cape Town, South Africa The desert tree succulent, Aloidendron dichotomum, occupies a large geographic range stretching between southwestern South Africa and northern Namibia, encompassing both summer and winter rainfall…

Untangling distribution shifts for improved characterization, prediction, and management

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Katherine Mills1, Dr. Justin Schuetz1, Mr.  Andrew Allyn1, Dr. Andrew Pershing1 1Gulf Of Maine Research Institute, Portland, United States Studies of climate-related species range shifts typically focus on changes in range centroids relative to mean annual temperatures for species as a whole. While this approach provides a broad-scale indication of distribution shifts and their…

Assessing socio-economic impacts and adaptation opportunities for fishing communities in the Northeast U. S. facing climate-driven species distribution shifts

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr. Katherine Mills1, Dr.  Michael Alexander2, Mr. Andrew Allyn1, Dr.  Lisa Colburn3, Dr. Steve Eayrs1, Dr. Bradley Franklin1, Dr. Troy Hartley4, Ms. Mary Hudson1, Mr. Brian Kennedy1, Ms. Sabrina Kerin1, Mr. Jonathan Labaree1, Dr.  Andrew Pershing1, Dr.  James Scott2, Dr. Jenny Sun5 1Gulf Of Maine Research Institute, Portland, United States, 2NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,…

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Synthesizing the impacts of sediment disturbances on marine biodiversity

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr RAFAEL Magris1,2, Prof Natalie Ban2 1Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, Brasília, Brazil, 2School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Sediment disturbances are one of the most important threats affecting many marine species and causing profound ecological shifts. With an increase in suspended sediment concentration and deposition, alterations of the physical and…

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Using physiology and performance to predict climate driven distribution range shifts in three temperate African anurans species: a hybrid modelling approach

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Mohlamatsane Mokhatla1,2, Dr  John Measey2, Dr Dennis Rödder3 1South African National Parks, Sedgefield, South Africa, 2Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB), Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 3Zoologische Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany Changes in climate have had an overriding influence on species distribution throughout time. The manner in which…

Effects of climate-related ichthyofaunal shifts and an invasive mesopredator on Gulf of Mexico reef fishes

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Anthony R. Marshak1, Dr Kenneth L. Heck, Jr.2 1ECS Federal LLC In Support Of NOAA Fisheries, Washington, United States, 2Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States Large and apparently unprecedented increases in the abundance of juvenile gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus), lane snapper (L. synagris), groupers and other tropically-associated fishes within northern Gulf of…

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Temperature variation and compensatory density feedback drive life stage-specific establishment of tropical fish in temperate seas

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Cristián Monaco1, Dr Ivan Nagelkerken1, Dr David Booth2, Dr Corey Bradshaw3, Dr Bronwyn Gillanders1, Dr David Schoeman4 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 2University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia, 4University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Australia Climate change is driving shifts in the distribution of many species globally as…

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Challenges in quantifying, interpreting and predicting distributional shifts of marine species

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Tara Marshall1, Dr Asta Audzijonyte2, Dr Alan Baudron1, Dr Curtis Champion2, Dr Niall Fallon1, Dr Alan Haynie3, Dr Melissa Haltuch4, Dr Bryony Townhill5, Dr Pieter Daniël van Denderen6, Prof Gretta Pecl2, Dr John Pinnegar5, Prof Malin Pinsky7, Dr Paul Spencer3, Dr Christine Stawitz8, Dr Jim Thorson3 1University Of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2University of…