Cutting Edge Lecture in Science: The ecology of species’ range dynamics in a warming world

By: Jennifer Sunday (Biology, McGill University)

As the world has warmed, species distributions have moved polewards in latitude, upwards in elevation and deeper in ocean depth. This global redistribution calls on ecologists to apply long-standing hypotheses about the factors that limit species distributions. Here I present global and regional analyses in which we can better understand how species are limited within their distributional range, to help predict and understand their future responses to increased warming.