Managing consequences of climate-driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science
- Authors: Bonebrake, Timothy , Brown, Christopher , Bell, Johann , Blanchard, Julia , Chauvenet, Alienor , Champion, Curtis , Chen, I-Ching , Clark, Timothy , Colwell, Robert , Danielsen, Finn , Dell, Anthony , Donelson, Jennifer , Evengård, Birgitta , Ferrier, Simon , Frusher, Stewart , Garcia, Raquel , Griffis, Roger , Hobday, Alistair , Jarzyna, Marta , Lee, Emma , Lenoir, Jonathan , Linnetved, Hlif , Martin, Victoria , McCormack, Phillipa , McDonald, Jan , McDonald-Madden, Eve , Mitchell, Nicola , Mustonen, Tero , Pandolfi, John , Pettorelli, Nathalie
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Biological Reviews Vol. 93, no. 1 (2018), p. 284-305
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- Description: Climate change is driving a pervasive global redistribution of the planet's species. Species redistribution poses new questions for the study of ecosystems, conservation science and human societies that require a coordinated and integrated approach. Here we review recent progress, key gaps and strategic directions in this nascent research area, emphasising emerging themes in species redistribution biology, the importance of understanding underlying drivers and the need to anticipate novel outcomes of changes in species ranges. We highlight that species redistribution has manifest implications across multiple temporal and spatial scales and from genes to ecosystems. Understanding range shifts from ecological, physiological, genetic and biogeographical perspectives is essential for informing changing paradigms in conservation science and for designing conservation strategies that incorporate changing population connectivity and advance adaptation to climate change. Species redistributions present challenges for human well-being, environmental management and sustainable development. By synthesising recent approaches, theories and tools, our review establishes an interdisciplinary foundation for the development of future research on species redistribution. Specifically, we demonstrate how ecological, conservation and social research on species redistribution can best be achieved by working across disciplinary boundaries to develop and implement solutions to climate change challenges. Future studies should therefore integrate existing and complementary scientific frameworks while incorporating social science and human-centred approaches. Finally, we emphasise that the best science will not be useful unless more scientists engage with managers, policy makers and the public to develop responsible and socially acceptable options for the global challenges arising from species redistributions. © 2017 Cambridge Philosophical Society **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 30 including the now Federation University Australia affiliate “Emma Lee” is provided in this record**
Autonomous adaptation to climate-driven change in marine biodiversity in a global marine hotspot
- Authors: Pecl, Gretta , Ogier, Emily , Jennings, Sarah , van Putten, Ingrid , Crawford, Christine , Fogarty, Hannah , Frusher, Stewart , Hobday, Alistair , Keane, John , Lee, Emma , MacLeod, Catriona , Mundy, Craig , Stuart-Smith, Jemima , Tracey, Sean
- Date: 2019
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- Relation: Ambio Vol. 48, no. 12 (2019), p. 1498-1515
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- Description: While governments and natural resource managers grapple with how to respond to climatic changes, many marine-dependent individuals, organisations and user-groups in fast-changing regions of the world are already adjusting their behaviour to accommodate these. However, we have little information on the nature of these autonomous adaptations that are being initiated by resource user-groups. The east coast of Tasmania, Australia, is one of the world’s fastest warming marine regions with extensive climate-driven changes in biodiversity already observed. We present and compare examples of autonomous adaptations from marine users of the region to provide insights into factors that may have constrained or facilitated the available range of autonomous adaptation options and discuss potential interactions with governmental planned adaptations. We aim to support effective adaptation by identifying the suite of changes that marine users are making largely without government or management intervention, i.e. autonomous adaptations, to better understand these and their potential interactions with formal adaptation strategies. © 2019, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.