GC34A:
Climate-Influenced Species Range Shifts: Where Are We Headed? II

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Session ID#: 15994

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:  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
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:

Slow Response or No Response? Distinguishing Non-Climatic Range Limits from Demographic Inertia (Invited) (153608)
Janneke Hillerislambers1, Leander D.L. Anderegg2, Ian Breckheimer1, Kevin Ford1 and Steve Kroiss1, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Biology, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States
Species’ Traits as Predictors of Range Shifts Under Contemporary Climate Change: A Meta-analysis (Invited) (160932)
Sarah A MacLean and Steven R Beissinger, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
A Community Perspective on the Effects of Climate Change on Species Distributions in the Boreal Forest of the Northeastern United States (168442)
Toni Lyn Morelli1, William V DeLuca2,3, Timothy R Duclos2,3, Jane R Foster4 and Alexej P Siren3,5, (1)USGS Northeast Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)Department of Interior Northeast Climate Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States, (5)Department of Interior Northeast Climate Science Center, Amherst, United States
Seed dispersal at alpine treeline: long distance dispersal maintains alpine treelines (122233)
Jeremy S Johnson1, Keith Gaddis1, Cairns M. David2 and Konstantin Krutovsky3,4, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States, (3)University of Göttingen, Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Göttingen, Germany, (4)Texas A&M University College Station, Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States
Significant Threat to North American forests from Southern Pine Beetle with Warming Winters (197380)
Radley M Horton, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Corey Samuel Lesk, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Ethan Coffel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States and Anthony W D'Amato, US Forest Service Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Consequences of environmental and biological variances for range margins: a spatially explicit theoretical model (128889)
George P Malanson, University of Iowa, Geographical & Sutainability Sciences, Iowa City, IA, United States, Robert J DeRose, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT, United States and Matthew F Bekker, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
Moving Uphill: Microbial Facilitation at the Leading Edge of Plant Species Distributional Shifts (187687)
Katharine Suding1,2, Emily Farrer2,3, Marko Spasojevic2,4, Dorota Porazinska1, Clifford Bueno de Mesquita1,2 and Steven K Schmidt5,6, (1)Univ Colorado, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Tulane University of Louisiana, Biology, New Orleans, LA, United States, (4)University of California Riverside, Biology, Riverside, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States, (6)Univ Colorado, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States
Past Penguin Colony Linkages to Climate Change and Catastrophic Volcanism on the Northern Antarctic Peninsula (147809)
Patrick Monien1,2, Stephen J Roberts3, Louise C Foster3,4, Julia Loftfield2, Bernhard Schnetger5, Emma J Pearson4, Emma P Hocking6, Peter Fretwell3, Louise Ireland3, Ryszard Ochyra7, Anna Haworth3,8, Claire Susannah Allen3, Hans-J Brumsack2, Michael Bentley9 and Dominic A Hodgson3, (1)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)Microbiogeochemistry Research Group, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, (3)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (5)University of Oldenburg, ICBM Microbiogeochemistry Research Group, Oldenburg, Germany, (6)Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (7)Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Warszawa, Poland, (8)Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (9)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom

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