Adaptation
or Extinction: Animals and Climate Change
Global
climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some
animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others,
and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both
biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g.
temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors.
Will different animal species adapt to global climate change
or disappear? What influences their survival? Is variation
among individuals in a population a substrate for adapting to
changes in the environment or are these changes occurring too
rapidly? We will examine these questions in discussions of
papers from the primary literature. Students will design and
conduct research projects informed by the questions we
discuss.
Tues., Fri. 8:30-10:20 a.m.
Helpful links for first assignment:
Evolution
Homeostasis
Course Requirements: see how to read and facilitate (download this!)
1-attend
all classes and be well-prepared
2-read
assignments AND take notes
3-browse
current journals
4-in class
discussion (facilitate and participate) This
is a discussion class. You are to talk to each other
during class.
5-research project: Think about variables that are
changing due to anthropomorphic activities and generate your
research in that context.
Independent variables that affect
animals
Dependent variables we can
measure
Animals we can study
By
midterm:
-things to consider during
proposal presentation
-research proposal with literature
cited -due (TBA)
Final work:
presentation
poster (instructions)
paper in format of any journal we've read in which the
references are embedded in the text (e.g. Jones et al, 2015)
-organization of final paper
Adaptation, speciation, and extinction in the anthropocene (2018)
Worldwide
decline of the entomofauna: a review of its drivers (2019)
The
global decline of freshwater megafauna (2019)
Toward
a conceptual synthesis for climate change responses (2012)6
The Impact of Climate Change on the World’s Marine Ecosystems (2010)
Impacts of ocean acidification on marine fauna and ecosystem processes (2008)
Baselines and degradation of coral reefs
in the northern line islands (2008
Marine
defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean (2015)
Applying evolutionary biology to global
challenges (2014)
Adaptation, plasticity, and extinction in a
changing environment (2010)
Estimating
heritability
Climate change and
evolutionary adaptation (2011)
Evolutionary response of the egg hatching
date of a herbivorous insect under climate change (2012)
Integrating biophysical models and evolutionary theory to predict climatic impacts on species’ ranges: the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti in Australia (2009)
Behavior
Energetic
Extremes in Aquatic Locomotion by Coral Reef Fishes
(2013)
Climate
change and frog calls: long-term correlations along a
tropical altitudinal gradient (2014)
Early
emergence in a butterfly causally linked to anthropogenic
warming (2010
Ant-mediated
seed dispersal in a warmed world (2014)
Heterotrophic
plasticity and resilience and bleached corals (2006)
The
cumulative impact of annual coral bleaching can turn some
coral species winners into losers (2014)
Significant changes in
the skin microbiome mediated by the sport of roller derby
(2014)
Invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans reduce recruitment of Atlantic coral-reef fishes (2008)
Re-examining the relationship between invasive lionfish and native grouper in the Caribbean (2014)
Modelling
species distributions without using species distributions
(2008)
Geographical
range, heat tolerance and invasion success in aquatic species
(2015)
Physiology
Heatwaves
diminish the survival of a subtidal gastropod through
reduction in energy budget and depletion of energy reserves
(2017)
*****A
physiological
trait-based approach to predicting the responses of species
to experimental climate warming (2012)
Acute
physiological responses of the freshwater snail (2009)
Acid-base background
Differences in critical
thermal maxima and mortality across life stages of the
mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor (2012)
Thermal
tolerance breadths among groundwater crustaceans living in
a thermally constant environment (2013)
Climate Change Affects Marine
Fishes Through the
Oxygen
Limitation of Thermal Tolerance (2007)
Phenotypic plasticity mediates climate change
responses among invasive and indigenous arthropods (2015)
Is adaptation to climate change really constrained in
niche specialists? (2014)
**Climate
Change, Multiple Stressors, and the Decline of Ectotherms
(2012)
Cool papers for research ideas
Modelling
species distributions without using species distributions2008
(cane toads in Australia)
Do the numbers
and locations of road-killed anuran carcasses accurately
reflect impacts of vehicular traffic? (2014)
The
Effects of Temperature, Body Size, and Hydration State on
the Terrestrial Locomotion of the Crayfish Orconectes rusticus
(2000)
The
effects of metals on embryo-larval and adult life stages
of the sea urchin, Diadema antillarum.
(2005)
Assessing
insect responses to climate change: what are we testing for?
Where should we be heading? (2013)
Local
adaptation to road adjacency in an amphibian (2012)
Effects
of Ocean Acidification on Learning in Coral Reef Fishes
(2012)