Linda Beaumont
Department of Biological Sciences
M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences
Australia
Biography
Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University
Research Interest
My research focuses on the biological impacts of climate change. Much of my research involves the use of niche-based models to assess potential future changes to species distributions and to identify refugia from climate change. My funding comes from government departments (focusing on conservation implications of climate change and predicting drought mortality of tree speces) and industry (e.g. assessing impacts of pests on the horticultural industry, and developing decision support tools for guiding the future directions of industry partners). I am also particularly interested in phenological changes. Phenology is the timing of annual life-cycle events among plants and animals, e.g., migration of animals, flowering and leaf development of plants. Recent changes to phenological trends are amongst the most common, and noticeable, responses of species to climate change.
Publications
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Beaumont LJ, Hughes L, Pitman AJ. Why is the choice of future climate scenarios for species distribution modelling important?. Ecology letters. 2008 Nov 1;11(11):1135-46.
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Beaumont LJ, Hughes L, Poulsen M. Predicting species distributions: use of climatic parameters in BIOCLIM and its impact on predictions of species’ current and future distributions. Ecological modelling. 2005 Aug 15;186(2):251-70.
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Thomas CD, Cameron A, Green RE, Bakkenes M, Beaumont LJ, Collingham YC, Erasmus BF, De Siqueira MF, Grainger A, Hannah L, Hughes L. Extinction risk from climate change. Nature. 2004 Jan 8;427(6970):145-8.
