Responses of wildlife to climate change

We study how climate change affects populations and species of wild animals. To that end, we combine long-term, individual-based datasets with forecasts of population viability. Our population forecasts rely on empirically informed demographic models spanning a range of complexity, from matrix population models to agent-based approaches. We are especially interested in mechanisms that allow populations and species to cope with changing environments, such as behavioural and morphological adjustments, movement, and dispersal.To better understand these mechanisms and how individual variation contributes to population resilience under environmental change, we combine theoretical simulations with comparative studies.