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Reconstructing the spatio-temporal extinction dynamics of the thylacine

ByCourtney Glancy

Prof Barry Brook1, Dr Jessie Buettel1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Prior to European colonization in the early 1800s, Tasmania supported a small but stable population of the cursorial predatory thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). This ‘marsupial wolf’, often called the ‘Tasmanian tiger’, had been extirpated from mainland Australia during the mid-Holocene, after surviving the earlier wave…

Global patterns of seahorses and pipefishes richness

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Rui Rosa1, Ms Catarina Santos1, Dr Catarina Frazão-Santos1 1MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal Abstract: Seahorses (and relatives) are charismatic fishes that catch people’s attention with their unusual beauty and unique lifestyle. They are admired and sought all around the world,…

Using past rates of climatic niche change to predict species current response to climate change

ByCourtney Glancy

Luana Bourgeaud1, Lise Comte2, Jérôme Murienne1, Jonathan Lenoir3, Romain Bertrand4, Tarek Hattab5, Gaël Grenouillet1 1Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), UMR5174 Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse, France, 2School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 3UR Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (EDYSAN), UMR7058 CNRS, Université de Picardie Jules…

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Root and above-ground trait variation across a water availability gradient in woody Fynbos shrubs

ByCourtney Glancy

Ms Nicola Kühn1, Prof Kathy Willis1, Dr Carolina Tovar, Dr Marc Macias-Fauria1 1University Of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom   Trait-based ecology is important for understanding mechanisms of species response to climate change by focusing on the functional traits that mediate plant survival under a set of environmental conditions. There is consensus around which traits are…

Elucidating the differences in the demographic responses of marine and terrestrial species to global change

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Pol Capdevila1, Dr Maria Beger2, Dr Gwilym Rowlands1, Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez1 1Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Global change is causing a dramatic rate of species loss. There are many documented examples of extinction in terrestrial systems. Yet, despite…

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Measuring spatial predator-prey overlap to understand changing trophic interactions

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Gemma Carroll1, Dr Kirstin Holsman3, Dr Stephanie Brodie1,2, Dr James Thorson3, Dr Elliott Hazen2, Dr Steven Bograd2, Dr  Rebecca Selden4 1Universiy Of California Santa Cruz, Monterey, United States, 2NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, United States, 3NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, United States, 4Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States Global environmental change is…

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Prioritizing Areas of Wolverine Habitat Connectivity in the Western United States

ByCourtney Glancy

Ms Kathleen Carroll1, Dr. Andrew Hansen1, Dr. Robert Inman2 1Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, 2Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Helena, United States In the conterminous United States, wolverines (Gulo gulo) occupy semi-isolated patches of public lands. Connectivity among this metapopulation is essential to the persistence of this species in the western U.S. However, maintaining…

Ecological determinants of turnover in species richness, functional diversity, and phylogenetic diversity in the diverse and widespread Australian gecko genus Gehyra

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Renee Catullo1,2, Prof. Craig Moritz1 1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2FSP Environomics, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Abstract: Diversity metrics such as species richness, functional diversity, and phylogenetic diversity are regularly suggested as useful methods for determining conservation priorities at regional scales. These measures are often correlated, leading to suggestions that one diversity metric may substitute…

Exploring the drivers of the distribution of species abundances across the geographic range in freshwater fishes.

ByCourtney Glancy

Mr Juan D. Carvajal-Quintero1, Dr. Fabricio Villalobos1, Dr. Thierry Oberdorff2, Dr. Gaël Grenouillet2, Dr. Céline Jezequel2, Dr. Pablo A. Tedesco2 1Laboratorio de Macroecología Evolutiva, Red de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología (INECOL), Xalapa, Mexico, 2UMR5174 EDB (Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique), CNRS, IRD, UPS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Understanding the distribution of species abundances…