A new paper co-authored by CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl has been released, as an output from a workshop in Florida in 2023, after the third international Species on the Move conference (a conference series Gretta started in Hobart in 2016). Following the 2023 conference, a focused workshop sparked a key realization: while we’ve long known species are on the move, we’ve vastly underappreciated how multidimensional that movement might be.
To capture this complexity, the authors argue for a paradigm shift: one that recognizes that species are moving not just in one direction, but across multiple dimensions of space, time, and thermal scale. This recent synthesis outlines a conceptual framework that reflects this – highlighting how species can and do respond to directional climate change along intertwined spatial and temporal gradients, from the macro to the micro.
The next Species on the Move conference will be held in Taiwan in 2026.
Read more here: Reimagining species on the move | The 3D lab
See the publication here:
Fredston AL, Tingley MW, Neate-Clegg MHC, Evans LJ, Antao LH, Ban NC, Chen IC, Chen YW, Comte L, Edwards DP, Evengard B, Fadrique B, Falkeis SH, Guralnick R, Klinges DH, Lembrechts JJ, Lenoir J, Palacios-Abrantes J, Pauchard A, Pecl GT, Pinsky ML, Senior RA, Smith JE, Soifer LG, Sunday JM, Tape KD, Washam P & Scheffers BR (2025). Reimagining species on the move across space and time. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.015
