
Laura-Li Jeannot
Lancaster University
Email: l.jeannot@lancaster.ac.uk
Research Interests
Laura-Li’s broad interests lie in understanding how fish dynamics are impacted by environmental variables in the face of climate change and anthropogenic pressure. Her PhD project focuses on how fish communities reflect rat invasion and its consequences on ecosystem functioning (i.e. depletion of seabird colonies which affects nutrient cycling). Specifically, she studies small, bottom-dwelling (cryptobenthic) reef fishes to gauge how communities on nutrient-rich reefs compare to reefs next to rat-infested islands and how reef productivity may be impacted.
Through a combination of fieldwork, modelling, and population genetics, she seeks to answer four questions, 1. Do cryptobenthic communities differ between rat-infested and rat-free islands? 2. Does the role of cryptobenthic fishes differ between rat-infested and rat-free islands? 3.Do cryptobenthic communities on nutrient-rich reefs self-recruit? 4. How does this affect reef-scale ecosystem functioning?
Selected Publications
- Jeannot LL, Mouronvalle C, Peyran C, Blanco A, Planes S. (2022) Development of 27 new microsatellites for the shanny Lipophrys pholis. Molecular Biology Reports 49: 9051-9057.