The role of biotic interactions in structuring species distributions: synthesizing across ecological disciplines and spatial scales
in the face of climate change
"Perhaps the most substantial omission from current [species distribution models] are biotic interactions among species." Godsoe & Harmon 2012 Despite the explosion of research on species distribution modeling and pressing demand from resource managers and decision makers, ecologists are still grappling with questions about which processes are most important for determining species distributions. For the Ecological Society of America’s Centennial, we (Lindsey Thurman & Allison Barner) have organized a special session to explore these questions. We have invited speakers from a diversity of ecological disciplines to spark a discussion about the role of species interactions in species distributions from both a conceptual and applied perspective. We specifically ask each speaker to address:
On this site you will find information about the session itself, the motivations behind organizing this special session, the speakers who are involved and why we invited each to speak. We hope you will also be involved in this ongoing conversation, by either attending our session at the ESA annual meeting in Baltimore, our post-session happy hour [5-7pm @ Alewife Baltimore], or sending in questions via tweet (using #esasdm) or our contact form. |
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