Inferring past migration: a novel model-based approach to integrating data from genes, fossils, specimens, and environments

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Sean Hoban1, Dr Andria Dawson2, Dr Adam Smith3, Dr John Robinson4, Dr Allan Strand5, Ellie Weise4, Dr Jeanne Romero-Severson6 1The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, United States, 2Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, 3Missouri Botanic Garden, St Louis, USA, 4Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, 5College of Charleston, Charleston, USA, 6University of Notre Dame, South Bend, USA…

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Cross-scale interactions and the migration of trees

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Stephen Jackson1 1Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, USGS, Tucson, United States, 2Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States Paleoecological studies reveal how abundance and distribution of tree species are governed by interactions of slow and fast ecological processes in a changing environment.  Holocene migrations of several North American species (Juniperus osteosperma, Pinus…

Climate change adaptation efforts for species may be antagonistic to natural evolutionary responses

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Alistair Hobday1, Dr Juan-Diego Gaitan-Espitia1,2 1CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, 2The Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong , , China Impacts of climate change are apparent in natural systems around the world and many species are and will continue to struggle to persist in their current location…

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Spatio-temporal scaling of functional diversity change

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Marta Jarzyna1 1The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States Climate change is an intrinsically non-stationary phenomenon in both space and time. To understand when such spatial and temporal non-stationarity is relevant to ecological systems, one must address the issue of spatio-temporal scale dependence of biodiversity change. Despite this realization, scaling—in terms of both space…

The contribution of plasticity and evolution to range shifts under climate change

ByCourtney Glancy

Carla Sgro1 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Range shifts will be a common response to ongoing climate change. The distribution and abundance of species of conservation concern and those with impacts on human health and food security, such as disease vectors and agricultural pests will be affected. The extent to which evolution and phenotypic plasticity might…

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Ocean warming compresses the 3D habitat of marine biota

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Gabriel Jorda1, Dr Nuria Marba2, Dr Scott Bennett2, Dr Julia Santana-Garçon2, Dr Susana Agustí3, Dr Carlos Duarte3 1Instituto Español De Oceanografía, Palma, Spain, 2Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), University of the Balearic Islands – Spanish Council for Scientific Research (UIB-CSIC), Esporles, Spain, 3King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center…

Human Migration and Environment: a key issue with few empirical evidences

ByCourtney Glancy

Sabine Henry1 1University of Namur Rising concerns about environmental problems throughout the world have led the scientific community and policy-makers to become increasingly interested in understanding better the linkages between migration and the environment, how these linkages relate to poverty and sustainable development, and what this implies for policy, at local, national and global scales….

Taking the temperature of human-modified tropical forest landscapes using airborne laser scanning

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Tommaso Jucker1 1CSIRO, Floreat, Australia Microclimatic conditions in forest understoreys play a key role in shaping the composition and function of these ecosystems. Consequently, understanding what drives variation in microclimate is critical to forecasting ecosystem responses to global change, particularly in the tropics where many species already operate close to their thermal limits. To…

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Climate-change Effects on the Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases in the Arctic

ByCourtney Glancy

Tomas Thierfelder Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Tomas.Thierfelder@slu.se   Introduction: Climate change is considered to have a significant impact on the epidemiology of Arctic infectious diseases, that threatens Arctic societies by terms of socio-economy, culture, health, welfare, security, animal husbandry, and food supply (etc.). With arctic societies being generally dependent on husbandry animals, the…

The Galapagos-Cocos Swimway: protecting marine migratory species between hotspots

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Alex Hearn1,2, Dr. James Ketchum2,8, Dr. Cesar Peñaherrera2,7, Mr. Randall Arauz2,4, MS Todd Steiner2,3, MS Eduardo Espinoza2,5, Dr. George Shillinger2,6, Prof. A. Peter Klimley2,9 1Universidad San Francisco De Quito, Quito, Ecuador, 2MigraMar, San Jose, Costa Rica, 3Turtle Island Restoration Network, Olema, USA, 4CREMA/Fins Attached, San José, Costa Rica, 5Galapagos National Park Directorate, Puerto Ayora,…