Species face uncertain futures under global climate change.
Whereas some might adapt to changing climate with range shifts
and local adaptation, others will experience range contractions,
population declines, and even extinction. Although species will
respond differently to climate change, they will not respond
separately. Interactions among species (e.g., predator-prey,
interspecific competition) strongly influence how species
respond to their environment in space and time. The collective
responses of species to climate change will result in species
reshuffling into new communities for which there is no modern
analog. Current models predicting the effects of climate change
on species take a single-species approach that ignores species
interactions. Though species interactions largely occur at local
scales, they may scale up to influence broader changes in
species distributions and abundances as well as shifts in
community composition. The major goal of this project is to
determine if we can detect the influe