Changing animals in a changing world 25–27 November 2024

Climate change and changes to land use practices worldwide challenge wild and domesticated animals and the human population. Climate models suggest our future will be significantly warmer and less predictable, at the same time as pollution increases and natural environments shrink when the human population continues to expand. This threatens the resilience of animal populations and entire ecosystems. Ultimately, Anthropogenic changes are likely to lead to range restrictions, species extinctions, and increased movement of human- and non-human animals, with significant carry-over effects on key societal functions such as food production, food safety, and sustainability.

This meeting aims to bring together researchers working on various aspects pertaining to animals and temperature, human physiology, climate change, and land use practices in a changing world.

There is no registration fee for the meeting, but lunches and coffee will come at a cost. The symposium will be held in the penthouse venue of the newly opened Forum Medicum at Lund University from 25 to 27 November 2024. All talks will be streamed through Zoom. Most speakers will be at the Forum Medicum, but a few will give their talk only through Zoom. These are marked with Zoom only in the programme.

Please contact Andreas Nord (Andreas [dot] Nord [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se) for any questions pertaining to the meeting.

Programme

Monday 25 November

09:00–10:00 Registration

10:00–10:10 Welcome – Andreas Nord, Lund University, Sweden

Climate change

10:10–10:40 Gabriele Messori, Uppsala University, Sweden, Invited speaker
Drivers and trends of concurrent temperature extremes in the mid-latitudes

10:40–11:10 Coffee break

11:10–11:30 Jana Jeglinski, University of Glasgow, Scotland & University of Aarhus, Denmark
Past and future effects of climate on the metapopulation dynamics of a Northeast Atlantic seabird across two centuries

11:30–11:50 Fredrik Andreasson, Lund University, Sweden
Climate-driven increase in malaria prevalence in a wild bird

Lunch break

11:50–13:30 Lunch at restaurang Stamstället

Evolution of endothermy

13:30–14:00 Michael Gaudry, Stockholm University, Sweden, Invited speaker
The evolution of UCP1: A story of fire and ice

14:00–14:30 Mathias Osvath, Lund University, Sweden, Invited speaker
Thought for food: The endothermic brain hypothesis

14:30–14:50 Livia Saccani Hervas, São Paulo State University, Brazil
Heating Up: Mitochondrial adaptations to endothermy

14:50–15:20 Coffee break

Heat stress I

15:20–15:50 Mads Fristrup Schou, Aarhus University, Denmark, Invited speaker
Coping across life stages: Trade-offs and thermal acclimation in the ostrich

15:50–16:10 Elin Persson, Lund University, Sweden
Reversible costs of an early-life heatwave in blue tit nestlings

16:10–16:30 Mark Mainwaring, Bangor University, Wales
Ambient temperature strongly influences heat dissipation in birds breeding in a mid-montane tropical rainforest

Tuesday 26 November

Heat stress II

09:00–09:30 Michael Ørsted, Aarhus University, Denmark, Invited speaker
Unifying thermal limits of life and death in ectotherms

09:30–09:50 Sofia Gigliotti, University of Padova, Italy
The impact of heatwaves on the behaviour of the Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa) Zoom only

Shapeshifting animals

09:50–10:20 Sara Ryding, Deakin University, Australia, Invited speaker
Long- and short-term responses to climate change in body and appendage size of diverse Australian birds Zoom only

10:20–10:40 Charlotte Probst, University of Michigan, USA
Temperature predicts insulation but not size in the world’s passerines

10:40–11:10 Coffee break

11:10–11:40, Brian Weeks, University of Michigan, USA, Invited speaker
How much will morphological change influence the impacts of global warming on birds?

11:40–12:00, Joshua Tabh, Lund University, Sweden
Using population ecology to understand the shape of birds in warming years

Lunch break

12:00–13:30 Lunch at restaurang Stamstället

Thermal imaging

13:30–14:00 Dominic McCafferty, University of Glasgow, Scotland, Invited speaker
Applications and future directions in thermal imaging

14:00–14:30 James Marcer, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway, Invited speaker
Understanding thermal images of the human skin in sickness and in health – old tricks and new insights

14:30–14:50 Ross MacLeod, Liverpoo John Moores University, England
Non-invasive measurement of temperature and body mass change reveal chronic physiological responses to predation risk and environmental stress

14:50–15:20 Coffee break

Warming in acquatic environments

15:20–15:50 Katharina Ruthsatz, Estacion Biológica de Donñana –CSIC, Spain, Invited speaker
Warming waters, drying ponds: Amphibian challenges and adaptive strategies in a changing climate

15:50–16:10 Fredrik Jutfelt, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Mechanisms of warming impacts on fish

16:10–16:30 Moa Metz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Physiological mechanisms of slow and rapid thermal acclimation in a fish

16:30–16:50 Alexander Rosén, DTU Aqua – National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Denmark
Early-life temperature variability has life-stage-specific effects on ontogenetic scaling of fish metabolic and growth rates

Wednesday 27 November

Development

09:00–09:30 Amanda Petterson, University of Tasmania, Australia, Invited speaker
How do fluctuating temperatures alter the cost of development? Zoom only

09:30–09:50 Jana Rau, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Shining a light on embryogenesis

09:50–10:20 Ryan Shipley, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Switzerland
Adaptation to climate change can be constrained by early life effects

10:20–10:40 Emily Lechner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Impacts of embryo incubation temperature on ontogenic thermal tolerance of brook trout

10:40–11:10 Coffee break

11:10–11:40 Alejandro Corregidor-Castro, University of Padova, Italy
Antagonistic effects of nest temperature on developmental plasticity and selection for bill and body size in a Mediterranean raptor Zoom only

Ecological and evolutionary physiology

11:40–12:00 Elana Rae Engert, Lund University, Sweden
Fitness outcomes of nature's work-out routine for birds: nestling feeding

Lunch break

12:00–13:30 Lunch at restaurang Stamstället

Ecological and evolutionary physiology (continued)

13:30–13:50 Patrik Karell, Lund University, Sweden
Morph-specific selection pressures drive phenotypic divergence in a color polymorphic raptor

13:50–14:10 Juli Broggi, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales – CSIC, Spain
Latitudinal variation in basal metabolism: Is it just about temperature?

Cold adaptation

14:10–14:50 Monica Trondrud, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France, Invited speaker
Winter thermoregulation and fitness-related traits in Svalbard reindeer Zoom only

14:50–15:20 Coffee break

15:20–15:40 Nikita Tolockovs, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Mitochondrial respiration increases in tracheal fat in Japanese quail in response to cold exposure

15:40–16:00 Jakub Płachta, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Old and cold: How age and ambient temperature affect rest-phase hypothermia and oxidative stress in fasting zebra finches

16:00–16:20 Andreas Nord, Lund University, Sweden
Cause and effect of rest-phase hypothermia in the little bird in winter

Social event

18:30–21:00 Social event at the Department of Biology

Registration

The registration is closed.