List of works - Alex James

A dynamical model of honeydew droplet production by sooty-beech scale insects (Ultracoelostoma spp.) in New Zealand Nothofagus forest

article

A phenomenological model of muscle fatigue and the power-endurance relationship ⬇️

scientific article published on September 27, 2012

A stochastic model for COVID-19 spread and the effects of Alert Level 4 in Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

A structured model for COVID-19 spread: modelling age and healthcare inequities

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

An episodic model of honeydew production in scale insects

article

An event-based model of superspreading in epidemics

scientific article published in March 2007

Application of a spatial meta-population model with stochastic parameters to the management of the invasive grass Nassella trichotoma in North Canterbury, New Zealand

article

Assessing Lévy walks as models of animal foraging

scientific article

Assessing the efficacy of population-level models of mast seeding

scientific article published on 19 October 2014

Brood size in an uncertain world

scientific article published in 2023

Citizen science decisions: A Bayesian approach optimises effort

scientific article published in 2021

Climate-based models for pulsed resources improve predictability of consumer population dynamics: outbreaks of house mice in forest ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article

Collective Cell Behaviour with Neighbour-Dependent Proliferation, Death and Directional Bias

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Comment: weekly COVID-19 testing with household quarantine and contact tracing is feasible and would probably end the epidemic

scientific article published in June 2021

Competition and diffusive invasion in a noisy environment.

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Comprehensive analysis of SARS-CoV-2 antibody dynamics in New Zealand

publication published on 14 March 2021

Comprehensive analysis of SARS-CoV-2 antibody dynamics in New Zealand

Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border biosecurity interceptions

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Constructing random matrices to represent real ecosystems

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Control of Competitive Bioinvasion

Cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour in the exploitation of a common renewable resource with environmental stochasticity

Detectability of ten invasive mammal pests in New Zealand: a synthesis of spatial detection parameters

scientific article published on 16 November 2023

Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity

scientific article

Early intervention is the key to success in COVID-19 control

scientific article published in November 2021

Effect of Alert Level 4 on effective reproduction number: review of international COVID-19 cases

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Effective reproduction number for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand

Efficient or inaccurate? Analytical and numerical modelling of random search strategies

scientific article published on 14 November 2009

Emergence of balanced harvesting in an agent-based model of an open-access small-scale fishery

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Estimated inequities in COVID-19 infection fatality rates by ethnicity for Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

Estimated inequities in COVID-19 infection fatality rates by ethnicity for Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published on 4 September 2020

Estimating decay curves of neutralising antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Estimating decay curves of neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection

scientific article published in 2022

Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for Fecundity and Swimming Speed of Fish

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

2024 article on systematic bias in New Zealand academia

From lessons to lectures: NCEA mathematics results and first-year mathematics performance

Gender and societies: a grassroots approach to women in science

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Group by subject or by ability? Tertiary mathematics for engineering students

article by Michael Plank et al published 15 October 2011 in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology

Habitat fragmentation: Simple models for local persistence and the spread of invasive species ⬇️

scientific article published on July 10, 2012

How Herbivore Browsing Strategy Affects Whole-Plant Photosynthetic Capacity

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

James et al. reply

scientific article published in August 2013

Kia kaua te reo e rite ki te moa, ka ngaro: Do not let the language suffer the same fate as the moa

Kia kaua te reo e rite ki te moa, ka ngaro: do not let the language suffer the same fate as the moa

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Levers of change: using mathematical models to compare gender equity interventions in universities

scientific article published in 2022

Limiting Effect of Self-Shading on the Height of Tradescantia fluminensis Mats

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Long‐Term Biodiversity Benefits from Invasive Mammalian Pest Control in Ecological Restorations

scientific article published in 2021

Long‐term biodiversity trajectories for pest‐managed ecological restorations: eradication vs. suppression

scientific article published in 2021

Managing the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak from border arrivals

scientific article published in April 2021

Mathematical modelling to inform New Zealand’s COVID-19 response

article published in February 2021

Meeting the needs of our best and brightest: curriculum acceleration in tertiary mathematics

Model-free estimation of COVID-19 transmission dynamics from a complete outbreak

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Modelling Tradescantia fluminensis to assess long term survival ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Modelling predation as a capped rate stochastic process, with applications to fish recruitment

scientific article published on December 2005

Māori and Pacific People in New Zealand have higher risk of hospitalisation for COVID-19

Of mast and mean: differential-temperature cue makes mast seeding insensitive to climate change

scientific article published in November 2012

Optimal control of irrupting pest populations in a climate-driven ecosystem

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Optimal foraging: Lévy pattern or process?

scientific article published on September 2008

Optimizing the encounter rate in biological interactions: Ballistic versus Lévy versus Brownian strategies

scientific article published on 26 November 2008

Pest control at a regional scale: Identifying key criteria using a spatially explicit, agent‐based model

scholarly article

Potential reduction in transmission of COVID-19 by digital contact tracing systems: a modelling study

scientific article published in 2022

Potential reduction in transmission of COVID-19 by digital contact tracing systems: a modelling study

Predicting elimination of evolving virus variants

scientific article published in 2022

Predicting elimination of evolving virus variants

Predicting water levels in ephemeral wetlands under climate change scenarios

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Probability of elimination for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand

Research performance and age explain less than half of the gender pay gap in New Zealand universities

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

scientific article published in February 2008

Size-spectra dynamics from stochastic predation and growth of individuals

scientific article published in March 2009

Spatial moment dynamics for collective cell movement incorporating a neighbour-dependent directional bias

scientific article

Spatial structure arising from neighbour-dependent bias in collective cell movement

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free.

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Sticky Floors, Double-Binds, and Double Whammies: Adjusting for Research Performance Reveals Universities’ Gender Pay Gap is Not Disappearing

scientific article published in 2023

Stochastic modelling of intersectional pay gaps in universities

scientific article published in October 2023

Successful contact tracing systems for COVID-19 rely on effective quarantine and isolation

scientific article published on 3 June 2021

Suppression and Mitigation Strategies for Control of COVID-19 in New Zealand

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

The necessity of tailored control of irrupting pest populations driven by pulsed resources

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Using family network data in child protection services

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

Worldwide border interceptions provide a window into human‐mediated global insect movement

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

List of works by Alex James

A dynamical model of honeydew droplet production by sooty-beech scale insects (Ultracoelostoma spp.) in New Zealand Nothofagus forest

A phenomenological model of muscle fatigue and the power-endurance relationship ⬇️

A stochastic model for COVID-19 spread and the effects of Alert Level 4 in Aotearoa New Zealand

A structured model for COVID-19 spread: modelling age and healthcare inequities

An episodic model of honeydew production in scale insects

An event-based model of superspreading in epidemics

Application of a spatial meta-population model with stochastic parameters to the management of the invasive grass Nassella trichotoma in North Canterbury, New Zealand

Assessing Lévy walks as models of animal foraging

Assessing the efficacy of population-level models of mast seeding

Brood size in an uncertain world

Citizen science decisions: A Bayesian approach optimises effort

Climate-based models for pulsed resources improve predictability of consumer population dynamics: outbreaks of house mice in forest ecosystems ⬇️

Collective Cell Behaviour with Neighbour-Dependent Proliferation, Death and Directional Bias

Comment: weekly COVID-19 testing with household quarantine and contact tracing is feasible and would probably end the epidemic

Competition and diffusive invasion in a noisy environment.

Comprehensive analysis of SARS-CoV-2 antibody dynamics in New Zealand

Comprehensive analysis of SARS-CoV-2 antibody dynamics in New Zealand

Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border biosecurity interceptions

Constructing random matrices to represent real ecosystems

Control of Competitive Bioinvasion

Cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour in the exploitation of a common renewable resource with environmental stochasticity

Detectability of ten invasive mammal pests in New Zealand: a synthesis of spatial detection parameters

Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity

Early intervention is the key to success in COVID-19 control

Early intervention is the key to success in COVID-19 control

Effect of Alert Level 4 on effective reproduction number: review of international COVID-19 cases

Effective reproduction number for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand

Efficient or inaccurate? Analytical and numerical modelling of random search strategies

Emergence of balanced harvesting in an agent-based model of an open-access small-scale fishery

Estimated inequities in COVID-19 infection fatality rates by ethnicity for Aotearoa New Zealand

Estimated inequities in COVID-19 infection fatality rates by ethnicity for Aotearoa New Zealand

Estimating decay curves of neutralising antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Estimating decay curves of neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for Fecundity and Swimming Speed of Fish

Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

From lessons to lectures: NCEA mathematics results and first-year mathematics performance

Gender and societies: a grassroots approach to women in science

Group by subject or by ability? Tertiary mathematics for engineering students

Habitat fragmentation: Simple models for local persistence and the spread of invasive species ⬇️

How Herbivore Browsing Strategy Affects Whole-Plant Photosynthetic Capacity

James et al. reply

Kia kaua te reo e rite ki te moa, ka ngaro: Do not let the language suffer the same fate as the moa

Kia kaua te reo e rite ki te moa, ka ngaro: do not let the language suffer the same fate as the moa

Levers of change: using mathematical models to compare gender equity interventions in universities

Limiting Effect of Self-Shading on the Height of Tradescantia fluminensis Mats

Long‐Term Biodiversity Benefits from Invasive Mammalian Pest Control in Ecological Restorations

Long‐term biodiversity trajectories for pest‐managed ecological restorations: eradication vs. suppression

Managing the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak from border arrivals

Managing the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak from border arrivals

Mathematical modelling to inform New Zealand’s COVID-19 response

Meeting the needs of our best and brightest: curriculum acceleration in tertiary mathematics

Model-free estimation of COVID-19 transmission dynamics from a complete outbreak

Model-free estimation of COVID-19 transmission dynamics from a complete outbreak

Modelling Tradescantia fluminensis to assess long term survival ⬇️

Modelling predation as a capped rate stochastic process, with applications to fish recruitment

Māori and Pacific People in New Zealand have higher risk of hospitalisation for COVID-19

Of mast and mean: differential-temperature cue makes mast seeding insensitive to climate change

Optimal control of irrupting pest populations in a climate-driven ecosystem

Optimal foraging: Lévy pattern or process?

Optimizing the encounter rate in biological interactions: Ballistic versus Lévy versus Brownian strategies

Pest control at a regional scale: Identifying key criteria using a spatially explicit, agent‐based model

Potential reduction in transmission of COVID-19 by digital contact tracing systems: a modelling study

Potential reduction in transmission of COVID-19 by digital contact tracing systems: a modelling study

Predicting elimination of evolving virus variants

Predicting elimination of evolving virus variants

Predicting water levels in ephemeral wetlands under climate change scenarios

Probability of elimination for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand

Research performance and age explain less than half of the gender pay gap in New Zealand universities

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

Size-spectra dynamics from stochastic predation and growth of individuals

Spatial moment dynamics for collective cell movement incorporating a neighbour-dependent directional bias

Spatial structure arising from neighbour-dependent bias in collective cell movement

Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free.

Sticky Floors, Double-Binds, and Double Whammies: Adjusting for Research Performance Reveals Universities’ Gender Pay Gap is Not Disappearing

Stochastic modelling of intersectional pay gaps in universities

Successful contact tracing systems for COVID-19 rely on effective quarantine and isolation