02. Understanding ecological and evolutionary mechanisms facilitating or hindering range shifts

A/Prof Will Figueira1, Prof David Booth2, Mr Riccardo Cannas1, Ms Giglia Beretta2, Mr Luke Brown2 1University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2Univeristy of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia As oceans warm due to climate change, it is becoming increasingly common to find tropical fish species occurring in temperate habitats.  These vagrant fishes have the potential to greatly…

Alexa Fredston-Hermann1, Dr Malin Pinsky2, Dr Steve Gaines1, Dr Benjamin Halpern1 1University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, 2Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States Species around the world are shifting their ranges in response to climate change. Most empirical evidence for these climate-related range shifts comes from measuring the displacement of a population’s…

Dr Vineet Dubey1, Ms Aashna Sharma1, Dr Jeyaraj Johnson1, Dr Kuppusamy Sivakumar1 1Wildlife Institute Of India, Dehradun, India Successfully established wild populations of non-native brown trout (Salmo trutta fario) in higher altitude of Himalaya raise concerns for conservation of native snow trout (Schizothorax richardsonii) species over the past years. As such, assessing the way invasive-exotics…

Miss Carolyn Dunford1, Dr Nikki Marks1, Dr Christopher  Wilmers2, Dr Caleb Bryce3, Dr  Barry Nickel2, Dr Michael  Scantlebury1, Dr  Terrie  Williams3 1School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Global Food Security, Queen’s University of Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, BT9 7BL, Belfast, United Kingdom, 2Center for Integrated Spatial Research, Environmental Studies Department, University of…

Shih Fan  Chan1, Wei Kai Shih2, An Yu Chang1,3, Dr. Sheng Feng Shen1, Dr. I Ching Chen2 1Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2National Cheng Kung University , Tainan, Taiwam, 3Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan The most influential hypothesis regarding species geographic limits suggests that abiotic factors constrain…

Dr Wenda Cheng1, Dr Shuang Xing1, Dr Akihiro Nakamura2, Dr Timothy Bonebrake1 1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China, 2Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Menglun, China Species are adapted to the environments where they are distributed and tropical species inhabiting stable thermal environments are therefore likely to have low cold tolerance, i.e. “mountain…

Dr Paulina Cetina-Heredia1, Professor Moninya Roughan1, Dr Melinda Coleman2, Dr Andrew Jeffs3 1UNSW, Australia, Sydney, Australia, 2Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries NSW, Coffs Harbour, Australia, 3University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Larval dispersal by ocean currents influences species distributions and population dynamics; this study examines the impact of future climate on dispersal in a hotspot…

Dr Scott Bennett1, Dr Julia Santana-Garcon1, Dr  Núria Marbà1, Dr Gabriel Jordà1,2, Dr Andrea Anton3, Dr Eugenia Apostolaki4, Dr Just Cebrian5,6, Dr Nathan Geraldi3, Dr Dorte Krause-Jensen7,8, Dr Catherine Lovelock9, Dr Paulina Martinetto10, Prof. John M. Pandolfi9, Prof Carlos M. Duarte3 1Global Change Research Group, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (IMEDEA), CSIC-UIB, Esporles, Spain, 2Instituto Espanol…

Prof David Booth1, Giglia A Beretta1, Luke Brown1, William F Figueira2 1School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 2School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia   A 19-year dataset indicates high interannual, interspecific and spatial variation in influx and persistence of coral-reef fishes into SE Australia.  The last 5 years has seen…

Ms Bela Arora1, Dr. Kasper Thorup1 1Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Birds are known to modify their distributions seasonally. How these movements have evolved and what consequences they have on species distributions are poorly understood. Earlier discussions on the evolution of migratory movements mainly…