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A Changing Climate for Maritime Biodiversity: Linking Science to Practice

Biodiversity South West, along with the South West Climate Change Impacts Partnership, Natural England, Marine Biological Association and Marine Environmental Change Network held a conference looking at A Changing Climate for Maritime Biodiversity: Linking Science to Practice on 5th November 2009. This seminar, kindly hosted by The Met Office, is the first step in helping to build an understanding of what climate change may mean to marine, coastal and estuarine biodiversity in the South West, and what action is needed to help it adapt. As thinking grows and information is gathered it will be disseminated through these pages. The outputs from the initial seminar and presentations can be accessed from the agenda below.

Agenda

Time	Topic	Speaker	Downloads
10.00	Arrival and registration. Tea and coffee		Agenda (pdf)
Morning session chaired by Doug Hulyer, Board Member of Natural England
10.25	Welcome from the morning's Chair
10.30	Overview of the new UKCP09 marine scenarios	Jon Tinker, Met Office	Marine
10.50	Communicating marine climate change evidence	Paul Buckley, Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership	Communicating marine climate change evidence (pdf)
11.00	Current and projected impacts on biodiversity	John Spicer, University of Plymouth	Current and projected impacts on biodiversity (pdf)
11.20	Question and answer session
11.30	The role of Marine Protected Areas in climate change adaptation	Chris Davis, Natural England	Marine Protected Areas in climate change adaptation (pdf) Natural England's selection of the 'best of English seas' (wmv)
11.50	Case study: Climate change, seagrass and management in the South West	Emma Jackson, University of Plymouth	Climate change, seagrass and management(pdf)
12.00	Plenary session: - Q&A/Open discussion: Gaps and barriers
12.30	Lunch
Afternoon session chaired by John Spicer, University of Plymouth
13.15	A century of change in marine fish assemblage	Martin Genner, University of Bristol	Century of change in marine fish assemblage (pdf)
13.35	Case Study: Climate change and the sea breams - bringing the tropics to the table	Douglas Herdson, Marine Fish Information Services	Climate change and the sea breams (pdf)
13.45	Non-native species: impacts and opportunities	Nova Mieszkowska, Marine Biological Association	Non-native species: impacts and opportunities (pdf)
14.05	Case Study: Slipper Limpet - Impact, Management and Utilisation	Andy Fitzgerald	Case Study: Slipper Limpet (pdf)
14.15	Question and answer session
14.25	Coffee break
14.45	Climate change and sea birds	Helen Booker, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
15.00	Safeguarding biodiversity in the face of coastal change	Lyn Jenkins, Environment Agency	Adapting to Climage Change (pdf)
15.20	Case study: Shifting Shores and biodiversity	Tony Flux, National Trust	Shifting Shores and biodiversity (pdf)
15.30	Plenary session: - Q&A/Open discussion: Next steps
16.00	Finish