SYMP 19
Climate and Beyond: Cumulative Impacts on Species Range Shifts

Thursday, August 14, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Camellia, Sheraton Hotel
Organizer:
Malin Pinsky
Co-organizer:
Morgan W. Tingley
Moderator:
Morgan W. Tingley
Across a wide and rapidly growing range of taxa and ecosystems, researchers have described contemporary shifts in species distributions. At a broad, cross-taxa perspective, many of these shifts have been consistent with changes in climate, but we know that reality is both more interesting and more complicated. Other factors, including anthropogenic management; release of invasive species; changing interactions between species; and large-scale disturbance can also cause shifts in species ranges. The potential for each of these to interact with climate change raises a set of important questions. How do the cumulative effects facilitate or impede species’ abilities to shift their distributions? How can we tease apart the relative contributions of each factor? How can we use a cumulative impacts perspective to develop a next generation of species distribution forecasts? And how can this science lead improved conservation management? This symposium will focus on exploring and synthesizing answers to these questions across ecosystems, from mountains to oceans, and across taxa, from flowers to cod.
2:00 PM
Competition, predation, and elevational limits of tropical birds
Jill E. Jankowski, University of British Columbia; Gustavo A. Londoño, University of California, Riverside; J. Patrick Kelley, University of British Columbia; Scott K. Robinson, University of Florida
2:30 PM
Gene expression in closely-related species mirrors local adaptation: Consequences for responses to a warming world
Jessica Hellmann, University of Notre Dame; Shawn T. O'Neil, Oregon State University; Caroline M. Williams, University of Florida
3:00 PM
3:10 PM
Diverse drivers of contemporary species shifts in the California flora
Adam Wolf, Princeton University; William R. L. Anderegg, Princeton University; Naupaka Zimmerman, University of Arizona; Posy E. Busby, University of Washington; Jon A. Christensen, University of California
4:10 PM
Live fast and die young: Cumulative impacts of rapid climate velocities and fishing on marine species
Malin Pinsky, Rutgers University; Emma Fuller, Princeton University; Eleanor Brush, Princeton University; Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University
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