Conference Videos
Video Competition
A video competition was held to encourage and reward scientists for showcasing their research with the public and colleagues outside their own field.
Two prizes were awarded: a ‘People’s Choice Award’ voted by the public (with a prize of $1000) and a ‘Conference Award’ selected by the conference attendees.
Species on the Move 2019
The next Species on the Move Conference is likely to be held in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in 2019. Join the conference mailing list and we will notify you as planning proceeds.
Species on the Move
International Conference
This successful inaugural conference was held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from
9 to 12 February 2016.
The global redistribution of our planets’ species is widely recognised as a fingerprint of climate change, however, the mechanisms that underpin such range shifts are poorly understood. Additionally, the pervasiveness of range shifts, from poles to the equator, and depths of oceans to tops of mountains, provides us with unique opportunity to advance our theory of biogeography, evolutionary ecology and macroecology.
Our move into the ‘anthropocene’ allows unprecedented opportunity to understand the mechanisms that drive species distributions across ecosystems and address the fundamental tenet of ecology: what lives where and why? However, such dramatic changes also pose significant challenges for sustainable management of our natural resources.
The conference targeted scientists and natural resource managers working in the disciplines of global change, biogeography and evolution, and relevant in contexts of natural resource management, biodiversity management and conservation, and theoretical ecology.
Species responses to climate change is a rapidly evolving research field, however, much of our progress is being made in independent research areas: e.g. understanding the process vs responding to the implications, terrestrial vs marine ecosystems, global meta-analyses vs in depth species-specific approaches. This interdisciplinary conference would develop connections between these parallel streams, and across temporal and spatial scales.
If you would like more information about the outcomes of Species on the Move 2016 or plans for the next Species on the Move Conference (likely to be in 2019 at Kruger National Park in South Africa) please contact Gretta.Pecl@utas.edu.au.
Associate Professor Gretta Pecl & Professor Stephen Williams
Conference Co-Convenors
Report
The conference report provides an overview of the conference and media associated with the conference.
By the Numbers…
275+
Conference Attendees
20+
Countries Represented
30+
News Articles
4000+
Views for the Video Competition
155
Presentations
No. 4
Trended on Twitter in Australia
21
Video Presentations Available
3
Plenary Sessions
55+
Posters
450+
Joined in the Public Forum
Conference Sponsors
We acknowledge the generous support of the following conference sponsors.
Species on the Move was hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the School of Biological Sciences (Zoology and Plant Sciences) at the University of Tasmania, with support also provided by the School of Land and Food and the Faculty of Law.
www.imas.utas.edu.au
www.utas.edu.au/land-food
www.utas.edu.au/law
www.utas.edu.au/zoology
www.utas.edu.au/plant-science
The Land and Water and Oceans and Atmosphere Flagships proudly support the Species on the Move conference
Greening Australia is undertaking strategic revegetation projects to offset the carbon emissions from this event.
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) is proud to sponsor the “Decision-making for assisted colonisation as a climate change adaptation strategy” session of Species on the Move.
Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
This event is proudly supported by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The Ian Potter Foundation is one of Australia’s major philanthropic foundations. The Foundation makes grants nationally to support charitable organisations working to benefit the community across a wide range of sectors including the Arts, environment, science, medical research, education and community wellbeing. The Ian Potter Foundation aims to support and promote a healthy, vibrant and fair community for the benefit of all Australians.
Facebook Posts
Pleased to report that the Aussie contingent of the Species on the Move team won our category in the Thinkable Peer Prize for Women in Science! Our entry was based on the recent collaborative Science paper emerging from the 2016 conference science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6332/eaai9214. We are excited to say that the $20,000 prize will be used to help support the planned 2019 conference at Kruger National Park in South Africa by providing salaries for grant writing - we're trying to secure funds to help Indigenous participants, early career researchers, students, minorities, researchers from developing countries and researchers with primary child-carer responsibilities to attend the next conference. We would love to help get as many of you there as possible! Fingers crossed! Please message the page or email Gretta.Pecl@utas.edu.au if you are aware of a grant we could apply for. THANK YOU to everyone that voted for us!
Congratulations to the multi-disciplinary, multi-university Species on the Move team based at IMAS & University of Tasmania - winners of the 2017 Peer Prize for Women in the category Earth, Environmen...
We don't yet have a good understanding of when, where and how species interactions matter for biogeography, and how this in turn influences how species distributions might alter under climate change. This excellent paper makes use of ecological theory from different fields and explains where species interactions with each other might be important for shaping range limits. In a nutshell- it's not all about the direct effects of the physical environment (temperature, rainfall, currents, winds etc), all the interactions between different species can have a big impact too.
Another output from the Species on the Move conference last year! This important paper was expertly led by Tim Bonebrake and involved a team of 43 international authors.We highlight that to adequately address the implications of climate change we urgently need integrated and interdisciplinary studies. Message the page if you'd like a copy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12344/full
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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 th...
Think climate-driven species redistribution is important to research? You do! Great- you can help us secure some more funds for this work! An innovative Aussie science group called Thinkable have launched a 'Peer Prize for Women' in science competition and we'd love you to please check out our 'Species on the Move' entry and vote for us if you like it! You need to register first (it's quick, but you must use a research institute email and have at least one published peer reviewed paper to be eligible to vote). www.thinkable.org/submission_entries/JqoQyp8r
#SpeciesOnTheMove in Antarctica, greening it up.
Thanks to global warming, Antarctica is beginning to turn green
washingtonpost.com
It could be the start of a march 'backward in geologic time,' scientists say, to an era in which the icy continent actually featured trees.