Hi, Some of you may be interested in a new paper out last week in Science “Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being”, available here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6332/eaai9214 (but download supp materials too as the first table in particular is kinda important and would have been better as part of main paper).
We review evidence that climate-driven species redistribution at regional to global scales affects ecosystem functioning, human well- being, and the dynamics of climate change itself. We also highlight how and where climate-driven species redistribution intersects with the SDG’s. There is a public summary article based on the paper at The Conversation here: https://theconversation.com/climate-driven-species-on-the-move- are-changing-almost-everything-74752, and this interview with one of our co-authors highlights the both the implications for some Indigenous groups and the constructive actions they taking in response http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/british-columbia-science- animal-biodiversity-redistribution-climate-change-1.4050520?cmp=rss. We also had a public communication cartoon animation produced: https://youtu.be/6d-3Nv2n-Xk. There has been really strong interest in the paper, but dissemination is (as expected) mostly in western countries. As you all know impacts and implications will likely be most felt in places with less capacity to adapt (e.g. small island states, parts of Asia, Africa and South America for example) and so if any of you had research, policy or science communication contacts in any of those places we’d really appreciate any help with dissemination. Also, the paper stems from a conference held last year www.speciesonthemove.com, and we plan on hosting another in 2019 at Kruger National Park in South Africa. If you would like to receive updates about this conference please sign up for the email list at the website. Thanks, Gretta
