Predicting and mitigating future biodiversity loss using long-term ecological proxies

Damien A. Fordham (1), H. Resit Akcakaya (2), John Alroy (3), Frédérik Saltre (1), Tom M. Wigley (1), Barry W. Brook (4) 1 The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia 2Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA 3Department of Biological…

Adaptive capacity to ocean acidification along the distribution range of the southernmost South American sea urchin Loxechinus albus

Juan Diego Gaitan-Espitia (1), Leonardo Bacigalupe (2) 1 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIRO, Australia, Hobart, Tas, 7000, juandiego.gaitanespitia@csiro.au 2 Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, 5090000, lbacigalupe@gmail.com Over the next century, global fisheries will face the combined threats of harvest pressure and climate change. All of these factors will affect the abundance, reproduction…

Effects of diluted salinity on the survival, righting reflex and respiration of a marine intertidal isopod, Cirolana harfordi

Umme Salma (1), Murray Thomson (1) (1)The School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia usal2541@uni.sydney.edu.au The marine intertidal isopod C. harfodi is abundantly found in Pacific coastal areas. This species can be a dangerous pest for the fishery industry. It is not known whether C. harfordi is a euryhaline animal and can survive…

Climate-adjusted provenancing: constructing forests for the future

Dorothy Steane (1), Peter Harrison (2), Suzanne Prober (3) , Margaret Byrne (4), Elizabeth McLean (5), William Stock (6), Tanya Bailey (7), René Vaillancourt (8), Brad Potts (9) 1 School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia, Dorothy.Steane@utas.edu.au 2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart,…

Climate change impacts on ecosystems and food: bridging the land-sea divide

Julia L. Blanchard (1,2), Beth Fulton (2,3), John Dunne (4), Joshua Elliott (5), Mario Herrero (6), Petr  Havlik (7), Hermann Lotze-Campen (8), Christoph Müller (9) , Rob Parker (10), Reg Watson (1,2) & Simon Jennings (11,12) 1 Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-49, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia 2 Centre for…

Phylogenetic signal in species range shifts

Grenouillet Gaël (1), Comte Lise (2), Murienne Jérome (3), Bertrand Romain (4), Lenoir Jonathan (5) 1 UMR 5174, University of Toulouse,  118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France, gael.grenouillet@univ-tlse3.fr 2 School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat St, Seattle WA 98195, lcomte@uw.edu 3 UMR 5174, University of Toulouse, …

Planning to connect biodiversity areas for wildlife movement

Althena Davidson 1 City of Gold Coast Council, PO Box 5042, GCMC, QLD, 5042, adavidson@goldcoast.qld.gov.au We have all heard of mangroves to mountains, beaches to bushland and hinterland to coast approaches to conservation planning. City of Gold Coast Council is putting this into practice through its Biodiversity Area mapping project that identifies east-west hinterland to…

Species range dynamics over twenty years across functional groups of Southern African passerines

Raquel A. Garcia (1,2), Guy Midgley (3) , Guillaume Péron (1), Roland Schulze (4), Andrew Skowno (5), and Res Altwegg (1) 1 SEEC – Statistics in Ecology, the Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch,…

Seabirds response to climate change in the Southern Ocean

Péron C (1), Jenouvrier S (2), Bost C.A (3), Weimerskirch H (3) 1 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania and Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050 Australia, clara.peron@aad.gov.au 2 Biology Department MS-50, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 USA, sjenouvrier@whoi.edu 3 Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé UMR…

Dynamics of fish communities along a tropical to temperate gradient

Maria Beger (1), Brigitte Sommer (2), John M Pandolfi (3) 1 Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, m.beger@uq.edu.au, @mariabeger 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia, brigitte.sommer@optusnet.com.au 3 Australian Research Council Centre…