Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity

Michael T. Burrows; David S. Schoeman; Anthony J. Richardson; Jorge García Molinos; Ary Hoffmann; Lauren B. Buckley; Pippa J. Moore; Christopher J. Brown; John F. Bruno; Carlos M. Duarte; Benjamin S. Halpern; Ove Hoegh-Guldberg; Carrie V. Kappel; Wolfgang Kiessling; Mary I. O'Connor; John M. Pandolfi; Camille Parmesan; William J. Sydeman; Simon Ferrier; Kristen J. Williams; Elvira S. Poloczanska

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Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity

Michael T. Burrows^*, David S. Schoeman, Anthony J. Richardson, Jorge García Molinos, Ary Hoffmann, Lauren B. Buckley, Pippa J. Moore, Christopher J. Brown, John F. Bruno, Carlos M. Duarte, Benjamin S. Halpern, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Carrie V. Kappel, Wolfgang Kiessling, Mary I. O'Connor, John M. Pandolfi, Camille Parmesan, William J. Sydeman, Simon Ferrier, Kristen J. WilliamsElvira S. Poloczanska

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The reorganization of patterns of species diversity driven by anthropogenic climate change, and the consequences for humans, are not yet fully understood or appreciated. Nevertheless, changes in climate conditions are useful for predicting shifts in species distributions at global and local scales. Here we use the velocity of climate change to derive spatial trajectories for climatic niches from 1960 to 2009 (ref. 7) and from 2006 to 2100, and use the properties of these trajectories to infer changes in species distributions. Coastlines act as barriers and locally cooler areas act as attractors for trajectories, creating source and sink areas for local climatic conditions. Climate source areas indicate where locally novel conditions are not connected to areas where similar climates previously occurred, and are thereby inaccessible to climate migrants tracking isotherms: 16% of global surface area for 1960 to 2009, and 34% of ocean for the 'business as usual' climate scenario (representative concentration pathway (RCP) 8.5)⁸ representing continued use of fossil fuels without mitigation. Climate sink areas are where climate conditions locally disappear, potentially blocking the movement of climate migrants. Sink areas comprise 1.0% of ocean area and 3.6% of land and are prevalent on coasts and high ground. Using this approach to infer shifts in species distributions gives global and regional maps of the expected direction and rate of shifts of climate migrants, and suggests areas of potential loss of species richness.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	492-495
Number of pages	4
Journal	NATURE
Volume	507
Issue number	7493
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12976
State	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Acknowledgements This work was conducted as a part of the Towards Understanding Marine Biological Impacts of Climate Change Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a center funded by the NSF (grant no. EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara and the State of California. M.T.B., P.J.M. and J.G.M. were supported by the UK Natural Environment ResearchCouncilgrantNE/J024082/1.D.S.was supported bythe Australian Research Council’s Collaborative Research Network. J.P. thanks the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies for additional support, and A.J.R. was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP0879365 and Future Fellowship Grant FT0991722.

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Burrows, M. T., Schoeman, D. S., Richardson, A. J., Molinos, J. G., Hoffmann, A., Buckley, L. B., Moore, P. J., Brown, C. J., Bruno, J. F., Duarte, C. M., Halpern, B. S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Kappel, C. V., Kiessling, W., O'Connor, M. I., Pandolfi, J. M., Parmesan, C., Sydeman, W. J., Ferrier, S., ... Poloczanska, E. S. (2014). Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity. NATURE, 507(7493), 492-495. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12976

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