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2024

Borland, Aislinn and Banas, Neil and Gallego, Alejandro and Speirs, Douglas and Tyldesley, Emma and Bull, Colin (2024) Modelled marine migrations of Atlantic salmon post-smolts from Irish and Scottish rivers vary interannually with local currents and salinity. ICES Journal of Marine Science. ISSN 1054-3139 (In Press)

Lawrence, Joshua M. and Heath, Michael R. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Fernandes, Paul G. (2024) Structure size may affect fish density around oil platforms. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81 (7). pp. 1399-1411. fsae083. ISSN 1054-3139

Lawrence, Joshua M. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Michael R. and Fujii, Toyonobu and Burns, Finlay and Fernandes, Paul G. (2024) Elevated fish densities extend kilometres from oil and gas platforms. PLOS One, 19 (5). e0302738. ISSN 1932-6203

2023

Vastenhoud, Berthe and Bastardie, François and Andersen, Ken and Speirs, Douglas and Nelson, Rasmus (2023) Economic viability of a large vessel mesopelagic fishery under ecological uncertainty. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. 1285793. ISSN 2296-7745

2022

Laverick, Jack H. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Mike R. (2022) Synthetic shelf sediment maps for the Greenland Sea and Barents Sea. Geoscience Data Journal, 10 (2). pp. 220-230. ISSN 2049-6060

Heath, Michael R. and Benkort, Déborah and Brierley, Andrew S. and Daewel, Ute and Laverick, Jack H. and Proud, Roland and Speirs, Douglas C. (2022) Ecosystem approach to harvesting in the Arctic : walking the tightrope between exploitation and conservation in the Barents Sea. Ambio, 51. 456–470. ISSN 1654-7209

2021

Pace, Matthew C. and Bailey, David M. and Donnan, David W. and Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E. and Smith, Hazel J. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Turrell, William R. and Heath, Michael R. (2021) Modelling seabed sediment physical properties and organic matter content in the Firth of Clyde. Earth System Science Data, 13. 5847–5866. ISSN 1866-3516

Tarling, Geraint and Freer, Jennifer J. and Banas, Neil S. and Belcher, Anna and Blackwell, Mayleen and Castellani, Claudia and Cook, Kathryn B. and Cottier, Finlo R. and Daase, Malin and Johnson, Magnus L. and Last, Kim S. and Lindeque, Penelope K. and Mayor, Daniel J. and Mitchell, Elaine and Parry, Helen and Speirs, Douglas C. and Stowasser, Gabriele and Wootton, Marianne (2021) Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life- cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food- webs. Ambio. ISSN 1654-7209

Flynn, Kevin J. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Michael R. and Mitra, Aditee (2021) Subtle differences in the representation of consumer dynamics have large effects in marine food web models. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. 638892. ISSN 2296-7745

Pace, Matthew C. and Bailey, David M. and Donnan, David W. and Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E. and Smith, Hazel J. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Turrell, William R. and Heath, Michael R. (2021) Modelling seabed sediment physical properties and organic matter content in the Firth of Clyde. Other. Copernicus Publications.

Heath, Michael R. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Thurlbeck, Ian and Wilson, Robert J. (2021) StrathE2E2 : an R package for modelling the dynamics of marine food webs and fisheries. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12. pp. 280-287. ISSN 2041-210X

2020

Heath, Michael R. and Benkort, Deborah and Brierley, Andrew S. and Daewel, Ute and Hofmeister, Richard and Laverick, Jack H. and Proud, Roland and Speirs, Douglas C. (2020) How is climate change affecting marine life in the Arctic? Frontiers for Young Minds, 8. 103. ISSN 2296-6846

Choua, Melinda and Heath, Michael R. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Bonachela, Juan A. (2020) The effect of viral plasticity on the persistence of host-virus systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 498. 110263. ISSN 0022-5193

2019

MacDonald, Alan and Speirs, Douglas C. and Greenstreet, Simon P. R. and Boulcott, Philip and Heath, Michael R. (2019) Trends in sandeel growth and abundance off the east coast of Scotland. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6 (APR). 201. ISSN 2296-7745

Hunter, Aidan and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Michael R. (2019) Population density and temperature correlate with long-term trends in somatic growth rates and maturation schedules of herring and sprat. PLOS One, 14 (3). e0212176. ISSN 1932-6203

MacDonald, Alan and Heath, Michael R. and Greenstreet, Simon P. R. and Speirs, Douglas C. (2019) Timing of sandeel spawning and hatching off the East Coast of Scotland. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6 (MAR). 70. ISSN 2296-7745

2018

Heath, Michael and Benkort, Deborah and Brierley, Andrew and Daewel, Ute and Hofmeister, Richard and Proud, Roland and Schrum, Corinna and Speirs, Douglas (2018) Modelling the effects of changes in sea-ice extent on Arctic marine food webs. In: MASTS Annual Science Conference, 2018-10-31 - 2018-11-01, Technology & Innovation Centre (TiC).

Spence, Michael A. and Blanchard, Julia L. and Rossberg, Axel G. and Heath, Michael R. and Heymans, Johanna J. and Mackinson, Steven and Serpetti, Natalia and Speirs, Douglas C. and Thorpe, Robert B. and Blackwell, Paul G. (2018) A general framework for combining ecosystem models. Fish and Fisheries, 19. 1031–1042. ISSN 1467-2979

MacDonald, Alan and Speirs, Douglas C. and Greenstreet, Simon P. R. and Heath, Michael R. (2018) Exploring the influence of food and temperature on North Sea sandeels using a new dynamic energy budget model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5. 339. ISSN 2296-7745

Wilson, Robert J. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Sabatino, Alessandro and Heath, Michael R. (2018) A synthetic map of the northwest European Shelf sedimentary environment for applications in marine science. Earth System Science Data, 10. pp. 109-130. ISSN 1866-3516

Amélineau, F. and Fort, J. and Mathewson, P.D. and Speirs, D.C. and Courbin, N. and Perret, S. and Porter, W.P. and Wilson, R.J. and Grémillet, D. (2018) Energyscapes and prey fields shape a North Atlantic seabird wintering hotspot under climate change. Royal Society Open Science. ISSN 2054-5703

2016

Wilson, Robert J. and Banas, Neil S. and Heath, Michael R. and Speirs, Douglas C. (2016) Projected impacts of 21st century climate change on diapause in Calanus finmarchicus. Global Change Biology, 22 (10). 3332–3340. ISSN 1354-1013

Wilson, Robert J. and Heath, Michael and Speirs, Douglas (2016) Spatial modelling of Calanus finmarchicus and Calanus helgolandicus : parameter differences explain differences in biogeography. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3. pp. 1-15. 157.

Sabatino, Alessandro and O'Hara Murray, Rory B. and Hills, Alan and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Michael R. (2016) Modelling sea level surges in the Firth of Clyde, a fjordic embayment in south-west Scotland. Natural Hazards. ISSN 1573-0840

Jones, Peter and Cathcart, Alison and Speirs, Douglas C. (2016) Early evidence of the impact of preindustrial fishing on fish stocks from the mid-west and south east coastal fisheries of Scotland in the ninteenth century. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73 (5). pp. 1404-1414. ISSN 1054-3139

Hunter, Aidan and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Michael R. (2016) Investigating trends in the growth of five demersal fish species from the Firth of Clyde and the wider western shelf of Scotland. Fisheries Research, 177. pp. 71-81. ISSN 0165-7836

Speirs, Douglas C. and Greenstreet, Simon P.R. and Heath, Michael R. (2016) Modelling the effects of fishing on the North Sea fish community size composition. Ecological Modelling, 321. pp. 35-45. ISSN 0304-3800

2015

Hyder, Kieran and Rossberg, Axel G. and Allen, J. Icarus and Austen, Melanie C. and Barciela, Rosa M. and Bannister, Hayley J. and Blackwell, Paul G. and Blanchard, Julia L. and Burrows, Michael T. and Defriez, Emma and Dorrington, Tarquin and Edwards, Karen P. and Garcia-Carreras, Bernardo and Heath, Michael R. and Hembury, Deborah J. and Heymans, Johanna J. and Holt, Jason and Houle, Jennifer E. and Jennings, Simon and Mackinson, Steve and Malcolm, Stephen J. and McPike, Ruaraidh and Mee, Laurence and Mills, David K. and Montgomery, Caron and Pearson, Dean and Pinnegar, John K. and Pollicino, Marilena and Popova, Ekaterina E. and Rae, Louise and Rogers, Stuart I. and Speirs, Douglas and Spence, Michael A. and Thorpe, Robert and Turner, R. Kerry and van der Molen, Johan and Yool, Andrew and Paterson, David M. (2015) Making modelling count - increasing the contribution of shelf-seas community and ecosystem models to policy development and management. Marine Policy, 61. pp. 291-302. ISSN 0308-597X

Heath, Michael and Wilson, Robert and Speirs, Douglas (2015) Modelling the Whole-Ecosystem Impacts of Trawling. Fisheries Innovation Scotland, St Andrews.

Hunter, Aidan and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Michael R. (2015) Fishery-induced changes to age and length dependent maturation schedules of three demersal fish species in the Firth of Clyde. Fisheries Research, 170. pp. 14-23. ISSN 0165-7836

MacDonald, Alan and Heath, Michael and Edwards, Martin and Furness, Robert and Pinnegar, John K and Wanless, Sarah and Speirs, Douglas and Greenstreet, Simon (2015) Climate driven trophic cascades affecting seabirds around the British Isles. Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Annual Review, 53. pp. 55-79. ISSN 0078-3218

Wilson, Robert J. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Heath, Michael R. (2015) On the surprising lack of differences between two congeneric calanoid copepod species, Calanus finmarchicus and C. helgolandicus. Progress in Oceanography, 134 (413-43). pp. 413-431. ISSN 0079-6611

2014

Heath, Michael R. and Cook, Robin M. and Cameron, Angus I. and Morris, David J. and Speirs, Douglas C. (2014) Cascading ecological effects of eliminating fishery discards. Nature Communications, 5. 3893. ISSN 2041-1723

Morris, David and Speirs, Douglas and Cameron, Angus and Heath, Michael (2014) Global sensitivity analysis of an end-to-end marine ecosystem model of the North Sea : factors affecting the biomass of fish and benthos. Ecological Modelling, 273. pp. 251-263. ISSN 0304-3800

Heath, Michael R. and Speirs, Douglas C. and Steele, John H. (2014) Understanding patterns and processes in models of trophic cascades. Ecology Letters, 17 (1). 101–114. ISSN 1461-023X

Heath, Michael and Culling, Mark and Crozier, Walter and Fox, Clive and Gurney, William and Hutchinson, William and Nielsen, Einar and O'Sullivan, Martha and Preedy, Katharine and Righton, David and Speirs, Douglas and Taylor, Martin and Wright, Peter and Carvalho, Gary (2014) Combination of genetics and spatial modelling highlights the sensitivity of cod (Gadus morhua) population diversity in the North Sea to distributions of fishing. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71 (4). pp. 794-807. ISSN 1054-3139

2013

Humphrey, K. A. and Trines, R. M G M and Fiuza, F. and Speirs, D. C. and Norreys, P. and Cairns, R. A. and Silva, L. O. and Bingham, R. (2013) Effect of collisions on amplification of laser beams by Brillouin scattering in plasmas. Physics of Plasmas, 20 (10). 102114. ISSN 1070-664X

Wilson, Robert and Speirs, Douglas and Heath, Michael (2013) Solid evidence or fluid ideas on the importance of phase transitions to diapausing copepods. Journal of Plankton Research, 35 (2). pp. 438-440. ISSN 0142-7873

2012

McCaig, Chris and Speirs, Douglas and Heath, Michael (2012) Modelling diet composition dynamics among North Sea predatory fish using a length-structured partial ecosystem model. In: 6th World Fisheries Congress, 2012-05-07 - 2012-05-11.

Gurney, William and Bacon, P.J. and Speirs, Douglas and McGinnity, P. and Verspoor, Eric (2012) Sea-age variation in maiden Atlantic salmon spawners : phenotypic plasticity or genetic polymorphism? Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 74 (3). pp. 615-640. ISSN 0092-8240

Heath, M.R. and Speirs, D.C. (2012) Changes in species diversity and size composition in the Firth of Clyde demersal fish community (1927–2009). Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 279 (1728). pp. 543-552.

2010

Speirs, Douglas and Guirey, E.J. and Gurney, William and Heath, Michael (2010) A length-structured partial ecosystem model for cod in the North Sea. Fisheries Research, 106 (3). pp. 474-494. ISSN 0165-7836

Stari, T. and Preedy, K.F. and McKenzie, E. and Gurney, W.S.C. and Heath, Michael and Kunzlik, P.A. and Speirs, D. (2010) Smooth age length keys : observations and implications for data collection on North Sea haddock. Fisheries Research, 105 (1). pp. 2-12. ISSN 0165-7836

2009

Fox, C. and Harris, R. and Sundby, S. and Achterberg, E. and Allen, J.I. and Allen, J. and Baker, A. and Brussard, P.D. and Buckley, P. and Cooke, E.J. and Dye, S.R. and Edwards, M. and Fernand, L. and Kershaw, P. and Metcalfe, J. and Osterhus, S. and Potter, T. and Sakshaug, E. and Speirs, D.C. and Stenevik, E. and St. John, M. and Thingstad, F. and Wilson, B. North-eastern Atlantic Systems Cluster at CEFAS, Lowestoft, U.K. (Funder) (2009) Transregional linkages in the north-eastern Atlantic- an 'end-to-end' analysis of pelagic ecosystems. In: Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 1-76. ISBN 1420094211

2008

Heath, M.R. and Rasmussen, J. and Ahmed, Y. and Allen, J. and Anderson, C.I.H. and Brierley, A.S. and Brown, L. and Bunker, A. and Cook, K. and Davidson, R. and Fielding, S. and Gurney, W.S.C. and Harris, R. and Hay, S. and Henson, S. and Hirst, A.G. and Holliday, N.P. and Ingvarsdottir, A. and Irigoien, X. and Lindeque, P. and Mayor, D.J. and Montagnes, D. and Moffat, C. and Pollard, R. and Richards, S. and Saunders, R.A. and Sidey, J. and Smerdon, G. and Speirs, D. and Walsham, P. and Waniek, J. and Webster, L. and Wilson, D., NERC Marine Productivity Programme (Funder), The Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (Funder) (2008) Spatial demography of Calanus finmarchicus in the Irminger Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 76 (1). pp. 39-88. ISSN 0079-6611

2007

Cook, Katherine and Bunker, Adrian and Hay, Stephen and Hirst, Andrew and Speirs, Douglas (2007) Naupliar development times and survival of the copepods Calanus helgolandicus and Calanus finmarchicus in relation to food and temperature. Journal of Plankton Research, 29 (9). pp. 757-767. ISSN 0142-7873

2006

Wood, J.C. and Speirs, D.C. and Naylor, S.W. and Gettinby, G. and McKendrick, I.J. (2006) A continuum model of the within-animal population dynamics of E-coli O157. Journal of Biological Systems, 14 (3). pp. 425-443. ISSN 0218-3390

Clarke, E.D. and Speirs, D.C. and Heath, M.R. and Wood, S.N. and Gurney, W.S.C. and Holmes, S.J. (2006) Calibrating remotely sensed chlorophyll-a data by using penalized regression splines. Journal of Applied Statistics, 55 (3). pp. 331-353. ISSN 0266-4763

Speirs, D. and Gurney, W.S.C. and Heath, M.R. and Horbelt, W. and Wood, S.N. and de Cuevas, B. (2006) Ocean-scale modelling of the distribution, abundance, and seasonal dynamics of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 313. pp. 173-192. ISSN 0171-8630

2005

Speirs, D. and Gurney, W.S.C. and Heath, M.R. and Wood, S.N. (2005) Modelling the basin-scale demography of Calanus finmarchicus in the North East Atlantic. Fisheries Oceanography, 14 (5). pp. 333-358. ISSN 1054-6006

2004

Heath, Michael R. and Boyle, Peter R. and Gislason, Astthor and Gurney, William S.C. and Hay, Stephen J and Head, Erica J.H and Holmes, Steven and Ingvarsdóttir, Anna and Jónasdóttir, Sigrun H and Lindeque, Pennie and Pollard, Raymond T and Rasmussen, Jens and Richards, Kelvin and Richardson, Katherine and Smerdon, Gary and Speirs, Douglas C, European Union (Funder) (2004) Comparative ecology of over-wintering Calanus finmarchicus in the northern North Atlantic, and implications for life-cycle patterns. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 61 (4). pp. 698-708. ISSN 1054-3139

Speirs, D. and Gurney, W.S.C. and Holmes, S.J. and Heath, M.R. and Wood, S.N. and Clarke, E.D. and Harms, I.H. and Hirche, H. and McKenzie, E. (2004) Understanding demography in an advective environment: Modelling Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73. pp. 897-910. ISSN 0021-8790

2002

Speirs, Douglas and Lawrie, S. and Raffaelli, D. and Gurney, William and Emes, C. (2002) Why do shallow-water predators migrate? Strategic models and empirical evidence from an estuarine mysid. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 280 (1-2). pp. 13-31. ISSN 0022-0981

Jones, W. and Gurney, William and Speirs, Douglas and Bacon, P.J. and Youngson, A.F. (2002) Seasonal patterns of growth and expenditure in juvenile Atlantic salmon. Journal of Animal Ecology, 71. pp. 916-924. ISSN 0021-8790

2001

Speirs, D. and Gurney, W.S.C. (2001) Population persistence in rivers and estuaries. Ecology, 82 (5). pp. 1219-1237. ISSN 0012-9658

Gurney, W.S.C. and Speirs, D. and Wood, S.N. and Clarke, E.D. and Heath, M.R. (2001) Simulating spatially and physiologically structured populations. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70. pp. 881-894. ISSN 0021-8790

2000

Speirs, Douglas and Gurney, William and Hildrew, A. and Winterbottom, J.H. (2000) Long-term demographic balance in the Broadstone stream insect community. Journal of Animal Ecology, 69 (1). pp. 45-58. ISSN 0021-8790