User profiles for D. FORDHAM

Damien Fordham

Associate Professor in Global Ecology, University of Adelaide
Verified email at adelaide.edu.au
Cited by 6314

Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change

DA Fordham, ST Jackson, SC Brown, B Huntley… - Science, 2020 - science.org
… Pictures show examples of ecosystems in regions (A) to (D) with geohistories suitable for
assessing and maintaining future biodiversity. Data are based on (16). Distributional overlaps …

Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns

JA Pilowsky, RK Colwell, C Rahbek, DA Fordham - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
With ever-growing data availability and computational power at our disposal, we now have
the capacity to use process-explicit models more widely to reveal the ecological and …

Cracking the code of biodiversity responses to past climate change

…, E de Boer, R Jansson, H Morlon, DA Fordham… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
How individual species and entire ecosystems will respond to future climate change are
among the most pressing questions facing ecologists. Past biodiversity dynamics recorded in …

Life history and spatial traits predict extinction risk due to climate change

…, PJ Ersts, N Horning, DA Fordham… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
There is an urgent need to develop effective vulnerability assessments for evaluating the
conservation status of species in a changing climate 1 . Several new assessment approaches …

Dynamics of range margins for metapopulations under climate change

…, MB Araújo, DA Fordham… - … of the Royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… with the low dispersal estimate (figure 4a,d), but the absolute expansion by the year 2100
is no different when compared with medium dispersal (figure 4d). However, L. timidus already …

Plant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming?

DA Fordham, H Resit Akçakaya, MB Araújo… - Global change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Models that couple habitat suitability with demographic processes offer a potentially
improved approach for estimating spatial distributional shifts and extinction risk under …

PaleoView: a tool for generating continuous climate projections spanning the last 21 000 years at regional and global scales

DA Fordham, F Saltré, S Haythorne, TML Wigley… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… of past extinction and evolutionary processes (Fordham et al. 2014), and a strengthening
of efforts to mitigate future biodiversity loss from global change (Fordham et al. 2016). …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change could drive marine food web collapse through altered trophic flows and cyanobacterial proliferation

…, I Nagelkerken, SU Goldenberg, DA Fordham - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Global warming and ocean acidification are forecast to exert significant impacts on marine
ecosystems worldwide. However, most of these projections are based on ecological proxies …

[HTML][HTML] Complete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications

…, W Kwak, J Korlach, A Fungtammasan, D Fordham… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Modern sequencing technologies should make the assembly of the relatively
small mitochondrial genomes an easy undertaking. However, few tools exist that address …

Distribution models predict large contractions of habitat‐forming seaweeds in response to ocean warming

…, F Carreño, CJA Bradshaw, DA Fordham… - Diversity and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the relative importance of climatic and non‐climatic distribution drivers
for co‐occurring, functionally similar species is required to assess potential consequences of …