SAFS Seminar – Jennifer Sunday will synthesize thermal physiology and species distributions to reveal patterns of climate sensitivities in marine invertebrates and fish, and how these compare with sensitivities of terrestrial fauna. she develops a traits-based framework for understanding range shifts within coastal marine invertebrate and fish assemblages, based on shifts that have already occurred in a region of rapid climate warming. In addition, she presents work on quantifying evolutionary potential to ocean acidification, and developing and testing hypotheses on the role of temperature in modulating community interactions as a function of species’ metabolic traits. She will close by discussing her research vision for developing and applying a traits-based framework for characterizing climate-change responses within managed and natural coastal ecosystems of the Pacific northwest.
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