Reimagining species on the move across space and time
Publication date
2025-07
Authors
Fredston, Alexa L.
Tingley, Morgan W.
Neate-Clegg, Montague H.C.
Evans, Luke J.
Antão, Laura H.
Ban, Natalie C.
Chen, I. Ching
Chen, Yi Wen
Comte, Lise
Edwards, David P.
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Abstract
Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to dominant plant communities migrating poleward. Despite the various modes of how species are on the move, we primarily document shifting species along only one gradient (e.g., latitude or phenology) and along one dimension (space or time). In this opinion article we present a unifying framework for integrating the study of species on the move over space and time and from micro to macro scales. Future conservation planning and natural resource management will depend on our ability to use this framework to improve understanding, attribution, and prediction of species on the move.
Keywords
biogeography, phenological shift, range shift, spatial ecology, temporal ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, SDG 13 - Climate Action
Citation
Fredston, A L, Tingley, M W, Neate-Clegg, M H C, Evans, L J, Antão, L H, Ban, N C, Chen, I C, Chen, Y W, Comte, L, Edwards, D P, Evengard, B, Fadrique, B, Falkeis, S H, Guralnick, R, Klinges, D H, Lembrechts, J J, Lenoir, J, Palacios-Abrantes, J, Pauchard, A, Pecl, G, Pinsky, M L, Senior, R A, Smith, J E, Soifer, L G, Sunday, J M, Tape, K D, Washam, P & Scheffers, B R 2025, 'Reimagining species on the move across space and time', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 629-638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.015