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I studied Ecology & Conservation at university, graduating with a first class honours degree in 2024 after a decision to change careers post-Covid. I worked in accounting and finance for 11 years in a variety of businesses and areas. I love music, being out in nature, photography and yoga.
Marine match-mismatch: The ecological consequences of climate driven changes in migration and reproductive phenology in the sea
PI and Institution:
Jack Laverick, University of Strathclyde
PhD aim:
To explore the disruption of synchronicity between annual ecological events and the ecosystem level consequences of organisms drifting out of step in the marine environment, failing to match reproduction and migration with the availability of food.
PhD objectives:
- Reviewing the evidence for match-mismatch effects on fitness in marine ecosystems, compared to terrestrial and freshwater systems.
- Analysis of high-resolution time series data sets to diagnose environmental cues driving phenology.
- To build strategic, exploratory population dynamics models of resource-consumer-predator systems to test hypotheses about the sensitivity of match-mismatch effects on fitness to the nature of trophic coupling.
- Parameterising phenological processes for mid-trophic levels, guilds of benthos and fish, in an existing end-to-end ecosystem model.
- Investigating the sensitivity of spawning, recruitment, and migration phenology to environmental cues in the ecosystem and compare the ecosystem’s sensitivity to phenological trends across different regional implementations of the end-to-end ecosystem model of the Atlantic Ocean.
Contact details:
Email: [email protected]