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
Many of the chapters in this IUCN report highlight the extent and impact of #speciesonthemove in our oceans.
Redmap - What's on the move in Australian seas?
Redmap's lead scientist Gretta Pecl, and other IMAS scientists, were involved in this report highlighting just how quickly our global oceans are changing. Changes over the last five years have been pr...
Tweeters - Journal of Biogeography now on Twitter 😊
The Journal of Biogeography has just joined Twitter @JBiogeography. Give it a follow!
This map shows the average direction #SpeciesOnTheMove like mammals, birds, and amphibians (almost 3000 species!) need to move to track hospitable climates as they shift across the landscape. Using flow models from electronic circuit theory, scientists plotted movement routes for each species, connecting current habitats with their projected locations under climate change. Mesmerising to watch, maps.tnc.org/migrations-in-motion/#4/2.59/-81.08
Migrations in Motion - The Nature Conservancy
maps.tnc.org
Data visualization showing projected direction 2900 species need to move to track climate change
The first occurrence of managed relocation of a vertebrate species, in response to #climatechange.
Australia’s rarest tortoises get new home to save them from climate change
www.theguardian.com
Natural range of critically endangered western swamp tortoise increasingly untenable owing to reduced rainfall
Redmap Australia is a citizen science project collating 'out-of-range' photo observations from fishers and divers around Australia as an early indication of how species have be shifting in response to ocean warming. The project has just been named as one of three finalists in the 2016 Australian Museum Eureka Awards in the Innovation in Citizen Science category!
We are incredibily excited to announce that Redmap Australia is a finalist in the 2016 Australian Musuem Eureka Awards, along with two other fabulous projects in the Innovation in Citizen Science cate...