Name: Simon Jennings

Current Post: Honorary Professor of Environmental Sciences

Room Number: 01.22

Telephone: 01603 593398

Fax: 01603 591327

Email: simon.jennings@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

 

Research Interests

Population, community and ecosystem ecology; biodiversity; food webs; life histories; stable isotopes; fisheries ecology and management; environmental management systems and policy.

 

Biography

I am a Chief Science Advisor at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Lowestoft and a Chair of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. I work at UEA for one day each week to develop and facilitate research collaborations between UEA and Cefas; a contribution to the strategic alliance signed by these institutions in 2008. Collaborations between UEA and Cefas have led to work on fisheries, pollution, coastal erosion, marine ecosystems, climate change, marine policy and oceanography. Through Cefas, I advise national and international bodies on biodiversity, environmental management and fisheries issues.

With colleagues, I also work as a research scientist (i) to understand the structure and function of marine systems, (ii) to assess human and environmental impacts on populations, communities and ecosystems and (iii) to develop and apply tools to support fisheries and marine environmental management. Our research is not strongly tied to specific approaches and spans the continuum from fundamental to applied. We work with data, methods and models at time and space scales relevant to the problems we hope to solve. Our overall aim is to ensure that ‘good’ ideas are developed, tested and then used to improve the performance of monitoring, assessment and management. The following publications provide examples of recent work.
 

Some Recent Papers

• Le Quesne, W.J.F. and Jennings, S. (2012) Predicting species vulnerability with minimal data to support rapid risk assessment of fishing impacts on biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49, 20–28. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02087.x
• Jennings, S. & Lee, J. (2012). Defining fishing grounds with vessel monitoring system data.  ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69, 51–63. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsr173
• Halpern, B., Diamond, J., Gaines, S., Gelcich, S., Gleason, M., Jennings, S., Lester, S., Mace, A., McCook, L., McLeod, K., Napoli, N., Rawson, K., Rice, J., Rosenburg, A., Ruckleshaus, M., Saier, B., Sandifer, P., Sholtz, A. & Zivian, A. (2012) Near-term priorities for the science, policy and practice of Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning(CMSP). Marine Policy, 36, 198-205. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2011.05.004
• Rochet, M.J., Collie, J.S., Jennings, S. & Hall, S. J. (2011) Does selective fishing conserve community biodiversity? predictions from a length-based multispecies model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 68, 469-486. doi:10.1139/F10-159
• Jennings, S. & Rice, J.C. (2011) Towards an ecosystem approach to fisheries in Europe: a perspective on existing progress and future directions. Fish and Fisheries, 12, 125-137. doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00409
• Simpson, S.D., Jennings, S., Johnson, M.P., Blanchard, J.L., Schon, P.-J., Sims, D.W. & Genner, M.J. (2011) Continental shelf-wide response of a fish assesmblage to rapid warming of the sea. Current Biology, 21, 1565-1570. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.016
• Blanchard, J.L., Law, R., Castle, M.D. & Jennings, S. (2011) Coupled energy pathways and the resilience of size-structured food webs. Journal of Theoretical Ecology, 4, 289-300. doi: 10.1007/s12080-010-0078-9
• Lambert, G.I., Jennings, S., Kaiser, M.J., Hinz, H. & Hiddink, J.G. (2011) Quantification and prediction of the impact of fishing on epifaunal communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 430, 71-86. doi:10.3354/meps09112
• Graham, N.A.J., Chabanet, P., Evans, R.D., Jennings, S., Letourneur, Y., MacNeil, M.A., McClanahan, T.R., Ohman, M.C., Polunin, N.V.C. & Wilson, S.K. (2011) Extinction vulnerability of coral reef fishes. Ecology Letters, 14, 341-348. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01592
• Webb, T.J., Dulvy, N.K., Jennings, S. & Polunin, N.V.C. (2011) The birds and the seas: body size reconciles differences in the abundance-occupancy relationship across marine and terrestrial vertebrates. Oikos, 120, 539-549. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.18870.x
• Barnes, C., Maxwell, D.L., Reuman, D.C., & Jennings, S. (2010) Global patterns in predator-prey size relationships reveal size-dependency of trophic transfer efficiency. Ecology, 91, 222-232.
• Branch, T.A., Watson, R., Fulton, E.A., Jennings, S., McGilliard, C.R., Pablico, G.T., Ricard, D., & Tracey, S.R. (2010) The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries. Nature, 468, 431-435. doi:10.1038/nature09528

Books

• Kaiser, M.J., Attrill, M.A., Jennings, S., Thomas, D.N., Barnes, D.K.A., Brierley, A.S., Hiddink, J.G., Kaartokallio, H., Polunin, N.V.C., & Raffaelli, D.G. (2011) Marine ecology: processes, systems and impacts, 2nd edn. Oxford Univesity Press, Oxford.
• Jennings S., Kaiser M.J. & Reynolds J.D. (2001). Marine Fisheries Ecology. Blackwell Science.

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