The Florida Climate Institute noted in their newsletter today that a recent article published in Science shows how much land and ocean species are moving away from the equator due to a warming climate. The summary paper is based on a February 2016 conference on “Species on the Move” which gathered about 350 international scientists who are specialists in migration of species. According to a related article in Phys.org, “land-based species are moving towards the poles by 17 kilometres per decade, and marine species by 72 kilometres per decade, on average. Some terrestrial creatures, such as ring-tailed possums in Queensland, are also shifting up mountain slopes to escape warming lowlands, while some fish species are being driven deeper as the ocean warms.”
You can read the FCI summary at https://floridaclimateinstitute.org/resources/news-archive/2292-species-on-the-move-having-a-big-impact, which includes links to several other stories based on the newly published paper, including the Phys.org article quoted above.
