Spearfisher competition data provide evidence of multi-decadal change in eastern Australian coastal fishes

Daniel C. Gledhill (1), Alistair J. Hobday (2), Matthew Lansdell (3), David Welch (4), Stephen Sutton (5), Adrian Jeloudev (6), Matt Koopman (7), Adam Smith (8), Scott Cooper (9) and Peter Last (10) 1 CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 2 CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania…

Identifying the most important corridors for species movement under future climatic change in the rainforests of the Australian Wet Tropics

Falconi L (1), VanDerWal J (2), Storlie C (3), Williams S.E (4) 1 College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, lorena.falconilopez@jcu.edu.au 2 College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, jeremy.vanderwal@jcu.edu.au 3 College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, collin.storlie@jcu.edu.au 4…

Implications of changes in fish distribution and abundance for food security and public health

Johann Bell Fisheries make important contributions to global food supply, providing >2.9 billion people with ~20% of their dietary animal protein. Although the majority of global fish production will eventually come from aquaculture, supplies from capture fisheries will remain vital for food security. The distributions and abundances of many of the fish species underpinning capture…

Antarctic invasion: non-native species movements in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctica

Justine D. Shaw (1), Melissa Houghton (2), John van den Hoff (3), Rachael Alderman (4), Dana Bergstrom (5) 1  Centre of Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland & Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Tas, 7050,  j.shaw6@uq.edu.au, @justine_d_shaw 2 Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Tas, 7050, Melissa.Houghton@aad.gov.au 3 Australian Antarctic Division, 203…

Modelling the transport of important artisanal fishery species in the Mozambique Channel

Downey-Breedt, NJ (1), Sauer, WHH (2), Roberts, MJ (3) 1 Rhodes University, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa, nicola.breedt@gmail.com 2 Rhodes University, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa, w.sauer@ru.ac.za 3 Oceans and Coasts Research, Department of Environment Affairs, PO Box 52126, Cape…

Conservation challenges for Patagonian squid populations after sudden range expansion of predatory Argentine squid

Alexander Arkhipkin (1), Tomasz Zawadowski (1), Zhanna Shcherbich (1), Andreas Winter (1) 1 Fisheries Department, Bypass Road, Stanley, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands, Aarkhipkin@fisheries.cov.fk Patagonian shelf and slope waters of the Southwest Atlantic are inhabited by two abundant and commonly allopatric squids. Argentine shortfin squid Illex argentinus is associated mainly with temperate waters of the Patagonian…

How does body size influence movement in marine fish?

C.A. Griffiths (1,2), P.G. Blackwell (1), D. Righton (3), J. Pitchford (4), R. Law (4), J. Leis (2), T. Patterson (5), J.L. Blanchard (2) 1 School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK. 2 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. 3 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science…

Go with the flow under a changing climate: the role of advection in marine ecosystems

Ekaterina Popova (1), Simon van Gennip (2), Andrew Yool (3) 1 National  Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK. ekp@noc.ac.uk 2 National  Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK. s.van.gennip@noc.ac.uk 3 National  Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK. axy@noc.ac.uk Ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation and reduced productivity are widely considered to be…

What is thermal bias, and why is it so important for predicting changes in community structure?

Rick Stuart-Smith (1), Graham Edgar (1), Amanda Bates (2) 1 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, private bag 49, Hobart 7001. rstuarts@utas.edu.au 2 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Using records in the Reef Life Survey (RLS) global dataset and in the Global Biodiversity Information…

From models of species distributions to models of communities

Prof. Miguel Araujo Climate and land use changes are leading to alterations in the distributions of species and the composition of assemblages. Most current models focus on species distributions, especially those concerned with animals, but there is a growing interest in how environmental changes might affect ecosystems and their associated services to society. However, scaling…