Dr Jack Laverick

Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow

Mathematics and Statistics

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Publications

Climate change opens up new fishing possibilities for large scale trawling vessels off West Greenland
Hatton Matthew, Laverick Jack, Banas Neil, Sivel Elliot, Heath Michael
Fisheries Oceanography (2025)
Sea-ice retreat from the Northeast Greenland continental shelf triggers a marine trophic cascade
Laverick Jack H, Speirs Douglas C, Heath Michael R
Global Change Biology Vol 31 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70189
Recent trends and biases in mesophotic ecosystem research
Radice Veronica Z, Hernández-Agreda Alejandra, Pérez-Rosales Gonzalo, Booker Ryan, Bellworthy Jessica, Broadribb Manon, Carpenter Gaby E, Diaz Clara, Eckert Ryan J, Foster Nicola L, Gijsbers Johanna C, Gress Erika, Laverick Jack H, Micaroni Valerio, Pierotti Miriam, Rouzé Héloïse, Stevenson Angela, Sturm Alexis B, Bongaerts Pim
Biology Letters Vol 20 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0465
Investigating the effects of mobile bottom fishing on benthic carbon processing and storage : a systematic review protocol
Felgate Stacey L, Aldridge John, Bolam Stefan G, Breimann Sarah, de Borger Emil, Claes Jolien, Depestele Jochen, Epstein Graham, Garcia Clement, Hicks Natalie, Kaiser Michel, Laverick Jack H, Lessin Gennadi, O’Neill Finbarr G, Paradis Sarah, Parker Ruth, Periera Ryan, Poulton Alex J, Powell Claire, Smeaton Craig, Snelgrove Paul, Tiano Justin, van der Molen Johan, van de Velde Sebastian, Sciberras Marija
Environmental Evidence Vol 13 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-024-00348-z
Recommendations for quantitative uncertainty consideration in ecology and evolution
Simmonds Emily G, Adjei Kwaku P, Cretois Benjamin, Dickel Lisa, González-Gil Ricardo, Laverick Jack H, Mandeville Caitlin P, Mandeville Elizabeth G, Ovaskainen Otso, Sicacha-Parada Jorge, Skarstein Emma S, O’Hara Bob
Trends in Ecology and Evolution Vol 39, pp. 328-337 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.10.012
Mesophotic coral ecosystems of Cuba
Reed John K, González-Díaz Patricia, Voss Joshua D, Busutil Linnet, Diaz Cristina, Pomponi Shirley A, Farrington Stephanie, Cobián-Rojas Dorka, David Andrew, Martínez-Daranas Beatriz, Hanisak M Dennis, Mendez Juliett González, Sturm Alexis B, Sánchez Patricia M González, Hernández María Rosa García, Fernández Jorge Viamontes, Jiang Mingshun, Laverick Jack H, Zlatarski Vassil N
Coral Reefs of Cuba (2023) (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36719-9_14

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Professional Activities

Melting sea-ice and fisheries expansion onto the East Greenland shelf, risk or resource?
Speaker
5/12/2024
Melting sea-ice and fisheries expansion onto the East Greenland shelf, risk or resource?
Speaker
28/11/2024
Early Career Network's Overview of the Academic Career Development Framework in Maths & Stats
Organiser
16/10/2024
StrathE2E: a strategic modelling tool for ecosystem-based fisheries management
Speaker
21/2/2024
Modelling fisheries displacement in the North Sea and its ecosystem and economic consequences
Contributor
6/12/2023
Big-picture modelling to help inform marine management trade-offs in the North Sea
Contributor
13/9/2023

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Marine match-mismatch: the ecological consequences of climate driven changes in migration and reproductive phenology in the sea
Laverick, Jack (Principal Investigator) Diele, Karen (CoI) Heath, Mike (CoI)
Phenology is the study of seasonal biological events, such as migration, egg laying, or flowering. The iconic ‘match-mismatch hypothesis’ (Cushing, 1974, 1975) predicts that changes in phenology may affect synchronicity with energy sources and so impact fitness. Examples of this may be failure to migrate in time to exploit a food source elsewhere, or to lay eggs to synchronise hatching with seasonally available food. As species rely on different environmental cues to time these events, it is possible that climate change will disrupt important ecological connections with cascading consequences at the level of the ecosystem.

Although originally conceived in the context of marine biology, the match-mismatch hypothesis has since been embraced as a general concept in ecology. As evidence of phenological shifts in response to changing climate mounts (Parmesan & Yohe, 2003), there has been a surge in publications in the ecological literature reviewing and re-evaluating the hypothesis (Kharouba and Wolkovich 2023; Samplonius et al. 2021). In general, the conclusion is that the conditions under which phenological asynchrony leads to effects on fitness depends on the ecosystem context – in particular the extent to which a consumer species or group is bottom-up or top-down regulated.

The central question for this studentship is: under what circumstances will the widely observed climate-related shifts in phenology lead to notable consequences at the level of the ecosystem?

While ecosystem models already include many aspects of known ecology and trophic coupling, the processes governing phenology and the sensitivity of the system to match-mismatch effects are glaringly missing. Ideally, phenological characteristics should be an emergent property of such models. This is the case for phytoplankton and lower trophic levels, but not for mid- and higher trophic levels. The proposed PhD project aims to spearhead a step change in ecosystem modelling by representing these processes.
30-Jan-2024
Ocean-ICU Improving Carbon Understanding (OceanICU)
Speirs, Douglas (Principal Investigator) Heath, Mike (Co-investigator) Laverick, Jack (Researcher)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2027
Ecosystem Change, Offshore Wind, Net Gain and Seabirds (ECOWINGS)
Speirs, Douglas (Principal Investigator) Banas, Neil (Co-investigator) Heath, Mike (Co-investigator) Laverick, Jack (Researcher)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
EPSRC IAA: Statistical Study Design for Build the Reef
Laverick, Jack (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
Shaping ecosystem based fisheries management (SEAwise)
Heath, Mike (Principal Investigator) Speirs, Douglas (Co-investigator) Laverick, Jack (Researcher)
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
Mission Atlantic. Towards the Sustainable Development of the Atlantic Ocean
Speirs, Douglas (Principal Investigator) Heath, Mike (Co-investigator) Laverick, Jack (Researcher)
01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2025

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Dr Jack Laverick
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics

Email: jack.laverick@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3661