Mapping global functional diversity of marine fish and its redistribution under global environmental change

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Mireia Valle1,2, Dr.  Benjamin Halpern2, Mr.  Casey O’Hara2, Dr. Kristin Kaschner3 1BC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Leioa/Bilbao, Spain, 2National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, Santa Barbara, United States of America, 3Department of Biometry and Environmental Systems Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of species diversity…

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Spatially explicit, cross-continental predictions of climate change-related local extinction risk and richness decline in bumblebees

ByCourtney Glancy

Mr Peter Soroye1, Dr Tim Newbold2, Dr Jeremy Kerr1 1University Of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 2University College London, London, United Kingdom Bumblebee (Bombus) species across North America and Europe are declining in range size and abundance across their ranges, linked in part to rapid recent climate change. Niche theory and physiology suggest that species’ physiological limits…

Dramatic destroy in geographic distribution of Caucasian fishes caused by climate change and human activities

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Ekaterina Vasil’eva1, Dr. Victor Vasil’ev2 1M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Biological Department, Zoological Museum, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation The water systems of the Caucasus demonstrate a high sensitivity even to local climate changes, leading to melting of mountain ice and heavy flooding, as well…

Coral reef ecosystems and marine heatwaves

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Rick Stuart-Smith1 1University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Mass coral bleaching events are changing the makeup of entire ecological communities, but this is not just occurring through loss of live coral habitat. Extreme temperatures affect reef fauna in different ways in different locations, and these interact with habitat loss associated with coral bleaching – and…

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Do microbes play a role in facilitating the range expansion of tropical fish into temperate systems?

ByCourtney Glancy

A/Prof Adriana Verges1, Ines Richter1, Torsten Thomas1, Suhelen Egan1 1UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia The climate-mediated range expansion of tropical, herbivorous fish into temperate regions has profound impacts on temperate reefs, through overgrazing of habitat-forming seaweeds. The mechanisms that control such novel plant-herbivore interactions between tropical consumers and temperate seaweeds are largely unknown, but recent studies…

What makes a refugium from climate change?

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Andrew Suggitt1, Dr Philip Platts1, Dr Yvonne Collingham2, Prof Calvin Dytham1, Prof Jane Hill1, Prof Brian Huntley2, Prof Chris Thomas1 1University Of York, York, United Kingdom, 2Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Large numbers of species are at accelerating risk of global extinction due to climate change. Although the existence of locations that could buffer…

Simulating plant species biological processes for climate change potential impact assessment on distribution: a new predictive tool applied on seven species in the south-east of France

ByCourtney Glancy

Mr Matthieu Vignal1, Mr Julien Andrieu2 1UMR 7300 ESPACE, Côte d’Azur University, Nice, France, 2UMR 7300 ESPACE, Côte d’Azur University, Nice, France Climate change should cause changes in plant species distribution. The movement of plant species depends on the succession and the success of their own biological processes. These processes aren’t  taken into account in…

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Connectivity Conservation for Resilience in Changing Climates

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Gary Tabor1, Kathleen Carroll2 1Center For Large Landscape Conservation / IUCN-WCPA Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group, Bozeman, United States 2Montana State University   Rapid changes in climate and diminishing biodiversity are challenging the planet’s resilient capacity to respond to large-scale human and natural disturbances. Protected area and species-specific conservation strategies remain the cornerstones of saving…

Diversity increases driven by climate change and invasions

ByCourtney Glancy

Prof Chris Thomas1 1University of York, York, United Kingdom Climate change and biological invasions are two of the biggest drivers of distribution changes in the Anthropocene.  We discuss how both processes are generating increased species richness in many regions. We find that local plant species richness has increased the most in parts of the world…

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Effects of seasonal dynamics on a migratory species since the Last Glacial Maximum

ByCourtney Glancy

Dr Kasper Thorup1 1University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Birds and many other animals move in response to seasonal resource availability. Some of the longest-distance Afro-Palearctic migrants perform surprisingly complex spatiotemporal schedules apparently fine-tuned to current seasonal availability of resources. It is still an open question how migratory species with highly complex programmes have responded to…