Dr Emily V Moran1 1UC Merced, Merced, United States Understanding how plants will shift their ranges under climate change is important for three reasons: 1) Plants form the energetic and structural basis of terrestrial ecosystems, 2) As sessile organisms, plants can only disperse as seeds and so may be limited in their range shift capacity,…
Dr Santiago Martínez Medina1, Mscs Talía Waldrón1, Msc Emmerson Pastás1 1Alexander von Humboldt Institute, Bogota , Colombia The following intervention presents the results of the joint effort between the communities of the Saliba indigenous people of Orocue, Casanare, with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute. In the year 2017, the community contacted the Institute seeking collaboration…
Dr Ziggy Marzinelli1,2,3, Louise Castro4, Madelaine Langley4, Sandra Straub5, A/Prof. Thomas Wernberg5, Dr Alexandra Campbell6, A/Prof. Symon Dworjanyn7, Dr Melinda Coleman8, Prof. Peter Steinberg2,3,4, A/Prof. Adriana Vergés3,4 1The University Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, 3Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, Australia, 4Centre for Marine…
Dr Tom Mason1, Dr Philip Stephens1, Dr Christine Howard1, Dr Chris Hewison2, Dr Stephen Baillie2, Dr James Pearce-Higgins2, Professor Stephen Willis1 1Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, 2British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, United Kingdom Globally, many migratory species are experiencing more rapid rates of population decline than their resident counterparts, yet little progress has been made…
Dr Mariana Mayer-pinto1, Dr Katherine Dafforn2, Professor Emma Johnston1 1University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 3University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Urbanised systems across the globe are under growing pressure from local and global stressors as pollution and climate change. Although the rapidly growing coastal human footprint is a…
Ms Arlie Mc Carthy1, Prof Lloyd Peck2, Dr David Aldridge1 1Zoology Department, University Of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom Vectors and pathways for marine species moving into the Southern Ocean and Antarctic region are extremely poorly understood, making it difficult to attribute them to certain pathways or mechanisms (i.e. anthropogenic…
Dr Phillipa Mccormack1 1Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Centre for Marine Socioecology, Hobart, Australia The effect of 1°C of global warming is already apparent on terrestrial, freshwater and marine biodiversity all over the world. In its latest report, the IPCC has described the implications of an additional 0.5 or 1°C of warming…
Mr Mark McGrouther1 1Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia Citizen scientists are making a significant contribution to our documentation of species range shifts. The iNaturalist website, run by the California Academy of Sciences, contains more than 14 million observations of ‘life’ that have been uploaded by over 400,000 people. Australasian Fishes is an iNaturalist project that started…
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…
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…