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Biodiversity, and threats to biodiversity, will be changing in response to climate change, affecting the context of success for protected areas. Many species’ ranges will move to track suitable conditions with increasing likelihood that they will move outside of the protected areas in which they currently reside. As species shift, ecosystems will fragment, adjust and…

Dr. Viv Tulloch The Global Wetlands Project, Griffith University, Australia. Dr. Chris Brown The Global Wetlands Project, Griffith University, Australia. Climate change is only one of a suite of stressors that species face. Natural ecosystems are being altered by other human-induced changes including deforestation, eutrophication, over-harvesting, the introduction of non-native species and various types of…

Conveners: Mary-Anne Lea1, Susan Gallon2 and Kylie Scales3, Autumn-Lynn Harrison4 1IMAS, University of Tasmania; 2MedPAN, France; 3University of the Sunshine Coast; 4National Zoological Park The advancements in animal tracking technology are enabling far greater data collection on migratory species than ever before. These data contribute to broaden our knowledge of the connectivity generated by migratory marine…

Advancing Connectivity Conservation in Changing Climates: Tools for Ecological Network Design Half-day Workshop Monday, 22 July 2019 13:30-16:45 The Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) and the Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG), under the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), will hold a half-day workshop on 22 July at the Species on the Move Conference…

Michael R. Kearney1, Warren P. Porter2 1 The University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences, Victoria, 3010 mrke@unimelb.edu.au 2 The University of Wisconsin, School of BioSciences, Victoria, 3010 mrke@unimelb.edu.au Mechanistic niche modelling involves the computation of heat, water and nutritional budgets of organisms as a function of their environments. Such models can be used to make…

Dr Pol Capdevila Lanzaco, Rob Salguero-Gomez, Owen Jones, Judy Che-Castaldo and Haydee Hernandez Yanez University of Oxford   Description: Demography is central to ecology. Most questions related to conservation biology, fundamental and applied ecology, and evolution can be tackled with a demographic approach. This workshop will introduce the open-access COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database and COMADRE Animal Matrix Database, which…

Jennifer Sunday1 1 Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4,  Sunday@biodiversity.ubc.ca,  @jennsunday As the world has warmed, species distributions have moved polewards in latitude, upwards in elevation and deeper in depth. This global redistribution calls on ecologists to apply long-standing hypotheses about the factors that limit species distributions. Here…

Convenors: Laura Pereira: Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University Kristi Maciejewski: Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University Juliano Palacios-Abrantes: Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia   This workshop will elicit input from expert stakeholders across relevant disciplines in order to elaborate the IPBES Nature Futures framework…

JG Hiddink 1, MT Burrows 2, J Garcia Molinos 3 1 School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5AB, UK, J.Hiddink@bangor.ac.uk, @Macomabalthica 2 Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute Oban, Argyll PA37 1QA, UK 3 Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute Oban, Argyll PA37 1QA, UK The extent to which shifts…