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)

https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12736

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

Mission Atlantic InterDIS summer School

Invited speaker

10/8/2025

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

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (Journal)

Associate Editor

31/1/2024

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Projects

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) Whoriskey, Suzy (Research Co-investigator) Sivel, Elliot (Researcher)

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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