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Effects of climate change on a restored southern California salt marsh community

Dr Christine Whitcraft1, Anastasia Shippey1 1Csu Long Beach, Long Beach, United States Salt marshes provide many critical ecosystem functions, several of which are threatened by human activities such as urban development and climate change. One method for combatting this loss and degradation is restoration. Under current climate conditions, salt marsh communities are well-understood, and restoration…

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Investigating physiological mechanisms and ecological consequences of a climate-driven range extension of a marine predator (Chrysophrys auratus) into southeast Tasmania

Mr Barrett Wolfe1, Dr Quinn Fitzgibbon1, Dr Jayson Semmens1, Dr Sean Tracey1, Dr Gretta Pecl1,2 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia The southeast Australian ocean warming hotspot has been host to a number of ongoing marine species redistributions, and thus has…

Combining wildlife detection innovations with social media technologies to achieve ecological activism

Dr Sam Wong1 1University College Roosevelt, Middelburg, Netherlands More advanced wildlife detection and monitoring innovations, such as satellite technology, high resolution imagery and Big Data, have been developed over the past decade. The technological advancement has enabled scientists to track the wildlife movement and monitor the changing population of certain species more accurately. At the…

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Treading the Wallacean shortfall for an endemic, iconic and threatened butterfly

Dr Shuang Xing1, Mr Tsun Fung  Au1,2, Ms Pauline Dufour1, Dr Wenda Cheng1, Mr Felix  Landry Yuan1, Prof Fenghai Jia3, Prof Lien Van Vu4, Prof Min Wang5, Dr Timothy  Bonebrake1 1School of Biological Sciences, The University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States , 3Jiangxi University of Traditional…

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The Traditional medicine knowledge and medicinal plant species move in response to Climate Change Adaptation in Tibetan village of Eastern Himalayas, China

Prof Lun Yin1, Mr. Misiani Zachary2, M. Yanyan Zheng3 1Yunnan Academy Of Social Science, Kunming, China, 2Kenya Meteorological Department, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Nairobi, Kenya, 3Yunnan People’s Publishing House, Kunming, China Traditional medicine provides health care for more than half of the World’s population. This makes indigenous cultures vulnerable to environmental change due to…

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Salt of the earth: a critical impediment to herbivore range-shifts in response to climate change

Dr Kara Youngentob1, Dr Karen Marsh1, Professor  William Foley1 1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Sodium is essential to the survival of all mammals. It is the predominant cation circulating in the blood and it is necessary for many essential bodily functions, from osmotic homeostasis and nerve transmission, to reproduction and lactation. However, herbivores can struggle…

The role of past climate change in shaping Madagascar’s endemic avifauna

Dr Jane Younger1, Robert Lauer1, Dr Arpad Nyari2, Dr  Steven Goodman3, Dr Sushma Reddy4 1Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States, 2University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, 3Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, United States, 4University of Minnesota, St Paul, United States Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot that is under threat from both deforestation and climate…

Geodiversity and its effects on shifts in species distributions and biodiversity

Dr Phoebe Zarnetske1, Dr Annie Cooper Smith1, Dr Kyla Dahlin1, Dr Sydne Record2 1Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States, 2Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, United States Climate and land use change are affecting the geographic distributions of species, compositions of ecological communities, and patterns of biodiversity. In addition to species’ physiological tolerances, biotic interactions,…

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The importance of understanding intraspecific behavioral variation in migratory fishes and its impact on the adaptability of these fishes to climate change

AC Winkler, AR Childs1, M Parkinson1, M Roberts, C Santos, Professor Warwick Sauer1, Professor Warren Potts1 1Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark Intraspecific behavioral variation is common throughout numerous animal taxa being referred to using a multitude of terms such as “partial migration” or the “contingent theory” in order…

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Rabbitfishes have come south-under: range-expansion and habitat associations of tropical herbivorous fish in temperate ecosystems of Western Australia

Mr Salvador Zarco Perello1, T Wernberh1, T Langlois1, M Vanderklift2, Tom Holmes3 1School of Biological Sciences and UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, 2Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Crawley, Australia, 3Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), Kensington, Australia As ocean temperatures rise and the transport of warm waters…