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…

Patterns in phylogenetic diversity reveal the signature of species interactions at the high-latitude range margins of corals

Brigitte Sommer (1), Eugenia Sampayo (2), Peter L. Harrison (3), Russ C. Babcock (4), Maria Beger (5), John M. Pandolfi (6) 1 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, 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef…

Can validated information from amateur observers compliment scientific data used to investigate potential range extensions of tropical fishes in the eastern Indian Ocean?

Lenanton, R. C. J., Dowling, C.E., Jackson, G. and Fairclough, D. V. Western Australian Fisheries & Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries,PO Box 20, North Beach WA 6025, Australia The increasing ocean temperatures and frequency of extreme climatic events that are predicted to continue over coming decades will modify biological communities in shallow coastal environments….

Decision-making for assisted colonisation as a climate change adaptation strategy Risk attitude and decision-making in assisted colonisation

Stefano Canessa (1) 1 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK. E: science@canessas.com, T:@can_essay Assisted colonisation is a new and untested conservation technique, which means its potential outcomes are typically uncertain. This is not unusual for conservation, due to our incomplete knowledge of complex and variable natural systems. In some cases, there…

Informing ecosystem-based management of the range extending long-spined sea urchin using a structured decision making process

Lucy M. Robinson (1) , Martin P. Marzloff (2), Sarah Jennings (3,4), Stewart Frusher (2,4), Sam Nicol (5), Gretta Pecl (2,4), Ingrid Van-Putten (4,6), Alistair Hobday (4,6), Marcus Haward (2,4), Sean Tracey (2) and Klaas Hartmann (2) 1 Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Hobart, Australia 2 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University…

The role of decision science in assisted colonisation

Hugh P. Possingham (1), Eve McDonald-Madden (2), Alienor Chauvenet (3), Nicola Mitchell (4) 1 ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, h.possingham@uq.edu.au, @HugePossum 2 ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management, The University of…