GC31C:
Climate-Influenced Species Range Shifts: Where Are We Headed? I Posters

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Session ID#: 12671

Session Description:
Under warming climates, poleward and upslope migration of biota is the widely projected and often observed response. However, as species range shifts are more closely investigated, more complex relationships are emerging. In some cases, there are long delays in poleward/upslope migration with warming. At shorter intervals, responses also include changes in demography, mortality, species interactions, community composition, structure, and species diversity. In other cases, responses include downslope shifts, movement to new aspects, movement or contraction into climate refugia, or no shift at all. These responses have been explained by a combination of forces related to climate and climate interactions with other abiotic and biotic factors. We invite contributions that explore climate-influenced range shifts from any taxonomic group, historical or contemporary cases, worldwide. We hope thereby to advance comprehensive understanding and improve projection of species range responses to warming.
Primary Convener:  Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA, United States
Conveners:  Cairns M. David, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States
Chairs:  Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA, United States and Cairns M. David, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4950 Paleoecology [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Aspect Shifts and Local Extirpations in Limber Pine without Change in Elevation Over 3600 Years of Climate Variability in the Western Great Basin, USA (144846)
Connie Millar, Robert D Westfall and Diane Delany, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA, United States
Rapid Treeline Demographic Shifts in Great Basin Sub-Alpine Forests (129777)
Brian Smithers, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Disentangling climatic versus biotic drivers of tree range constraints: Broad scale tradeoffs between climate and competion rarely explain local range boundaries (152031)
Leander D.L. Anderegg, University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States and Janneke Hillerislambers, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Biology, Seattle, WA, United States
Warming climate may negatively affect native forest understory plant richness and composition by increasing invasions of non-native plants (197120)
Martin Dovciak1, Jay Ward Wason III2, Jacqueline Frair1, Mark Lesser3 and Jeremy Hurst4, (1)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)Shepherd University, Department of Biology, Shepherdstown, WV, United States, (4)New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY, United States
Demographic Responses To Climate Manipulations Across a Species Range (131904)
Meagan Ford Oldfather, USGS North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Boulder, United States
Vascular Vegetation and Soil Microbiota of Juneau Icefield Nunataks (183049)
Samuel Hepner, Deirdre Collins, Eric Kittilsby, Polly Bass and Catharine White, Juneau Icefield Research Program, Juneau, AK, United States
Community climatic niche means as a tool to understand species range shifts across scales (177288)
Rachael Leigh Olliff Yang1, Meagan Ford Oldfather2, Prahlad D Papper1, Lorraine E Flint3, Alan L Flint3 and David Ackerly1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)USGS North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Boulder, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
Developing a protocol for long-term population monitoring and habitat projections for a climate-sensitive sentinel species to track ecosystem change and species range shifts (199269)
Aidan Beers, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
A comparison of the effects of climate change on American fish species (153294)
Allison Scavo, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States and Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States

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