The climate of the planet is changing, affecting the distribution, abundance, dynamics, behaviour and physiology of populations and communities. Therefore, anticipating the future under the prism of climate change represents one of the main challenges that modern communities have to deal with. Recent and ongoing questions in this area include:

 

• Ecological responses to climate change
• Prediction of climate change impacts on species distributions and population dynamics
• Levels of climate change, climate change velocity and rate of species adaptation

 

Indicative publications

• Almpanidou, A., Schofield, G.,Kallimanis, A.S.,  Türkozan, O., Hays, G.C., Mazaris A.D.2016 .Using climatic suitability thresholds to identify past, present and future population viability. Ecological Indicators 71, 551-556
• Mazaris A.D.,Vokou, D., Almpanidou, V., Türkozan, O., Sgardelis, S.P. 2015. Low conservatism of the climatic niche of sea turtles and implications for predicting future distributions. Ecosphere 6, 1-12
• Lehsten, V., Sykes, M. T., Scott, A. V., Tzanopoulos, J., Kallimanis, A., Mazaris, A., Verburg, P.H., Schulp, C. J.E., Potts, S.G. Vogiatzakis, I. 2015. Disentangling the effects of land-use change, climate and CO2 on projected future European habitat types. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24, 653-663