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Conor Waldock

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I am a global change ecologist interested in climate change effects on biodiversity in the recent past and into the future. I am part of the Wyss Academy for Nature project ‘Stopping biodiversity loss in waterbodies despite climate change’.

In this project, we seek to understand the shifting biodiversity of Switzerland’s freshwater ecosystems under climate change. My research quantifies the vulnerability of freshwater ecosystems to future scenarios of climate change and evaluates how current Anthropogenic stressors threaten the capacity for biodiversity to respond to climate change. This information will be used to identify biodiversity conservation areas using spatial prioritisation tools that will help guide restoration and revitalisations of Switzerland’s water bodies.

More broadly, I am interested in how climate-driven shifts in species distributions and abundances influence community-level biodiversity, ecosystem functions and the contributions of nature to people. I use ecological niche theory combined with macroecological modelling tools to explain the environmental constrains on species’ distribution and consider how these constraints may change in the future.

For more information on my research, publications and interests please visit my personal webpage or twitter

Selected publications

Waldock, C., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Albouy, C., Cheung, W.W.L., Edgar, G.J., Mouillot, D., Tjiputra, J. and Pellissier, L. (2021), A quantitative review of abundance-based species distribution models. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05694


Lefcheck, J.S., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D. et al. Species richness and identity both determine the biomass of global reef fish communities. Nat Commun 12, 6875 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27212-9


Payne, N.L., Morley, S.A., Halsey, L.G. et al. Fish heating tolerance scales similarly across individual physiology and populations. Commun Biol 4, 264 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01773-3


Waldock, C.A., De Palma, A., Borges, P.A.V. and Purvis, A. (2020), Insect occurrence in agricultural land-uses depends on realized niche and geographic range properties. Ecography, 43: 1717-1728. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05162


Antão, L.H., Bates, A.E., Blowes, S.A. et al. (2020) Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 927–933 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1185-7


Waldock, C., Stuart-Smith, R.D., Edgar, G.J., Bird, T.J. and Bates, A.E. (2019) The shape of abundance distributions across temperature gradients in reef fishes. Ecology Letters, 22: 685-696. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13222


Waldock, C., Dornelas, M., Amanda E Bates, A.E. (2018) Temperature-Driven Biodiversity Change: Disentangling Space and Time, BioScience, 68, 873–884. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy096

Adresse

E-Mail: conor.waldock@eawag.ch
Téléphone: +41 58 765 2194
Fax: +41 58 765 2168
Adresse: Eawag
Seestrasse 79
6047 Kastanienbaum
Bureau: SL B15