Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Scheffers Lab
Led by Brett Scheffers · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
What we study
The Scheffers Lab studies how climate change affects forest ecosystems and species movement. They use fieldwork in places like Madagascar and Panama to track biodiversity shifts.
What working here is like
- Wild animals
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- Papers
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Current projects
Climate-induced Redistribution of Biodiversity
Researching how climate change shifts species ranges in forests.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Genetic Diversity Impacts Climate‐Induced Species Range Shifts
2026 · Ecology Letters
Finds genetic diversity affects how species adapt to climate change.
- Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches
2026 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Compares predicted and real shifts in species ranges due to climate change.
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- From Ground to Canopy: A Molecularly Verified Herpetofaunal Inventory of a Madagascar Protected Area
2026 · Journal of Herpetology
Identifies reptiles and amphibians in Madagascar’s Ivohiboro Protected Area using DNA.
- At the leading edge: advancing and bridging the science and management of range-shifting species
2026 · BioScience
Explores how to manage species shifting due to climate change.
- Extreme events drive rapid and dynamic range fluctuations
2025 · Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Shows extreme weather events cause quick changes in species ranges.
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