Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles

• Hackney M., James A. and Plank MJ. (2021) Cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour in the exploitation of a common renewable resource with environmental stochasticity. Applied Mathematical Modelling 89: 1041-1054. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2020.06.079.

• Hendy S., Steyn N., James A., Plank MJ., Hannah K., Binny RN. and Lustig A. (2021) Mathematical modelling to inform New Zealand’s COVID-19 response. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand : 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1876111.

• Vattiato G., Plank MJ., James A. and Binny RN. (2021) Individual heterogeneity affects the outcome of small mammal pest eradication. Theoretical Ecology http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12080-020-00491-6.

• Barrett-Walker T., Plank MJ., Ka'ai-Mahuta R., Hikuroa D. and James A. (2020) Kia kaua te reo e rite ki te moa, ka ngaro: Do not let the language suffer the same fate as the Moa. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17(162) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0526.

• Binny RN., Innes J., Fitzgerald N., Pech R., James A., Price R., Gillies C. and Byrom AE. (2020) Long-term biodiversity trajectories for pest-managed ecological restorations: eradication vs. suppression. Ecological Monographs http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1439.

• Brower A. and James A. (2020) Research performance and age explain less than half of the gender pay gap in New Zealand universities. PLoS ONE 15(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226392.

• Köhnke MC., Binny RN., Holland EP. and James A. (2020) The necessity of tailored control of irrupting pest populations driven by pulsed resources. Theoretical Ecology 13(2): 261-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12080-020-00449-8.

• Steyn N., Binny R., Hannah K., Hendy S., James A., Kukutai T., Lustig A., McLeod M., Plank MJ. and Ridings K. (2020) Estimated inequities in COVID-19 infection fatality rates by ethnicity for Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal 133: 28-39.

• Turner RM., Plank MJ., Brockerhoff EG., Pawson S., Liebhold A. and James A. (2020) Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border biosecurity interceptions. Ecological Applications 30(8) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2194.

• Hackney M., James A. and Plank MJ. (2019) Emergence of balanced harvesting in an agent-based model of an open-access small-scale fishery. Mathematical Biosciences 316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2019.108245.

• James A., Binny RN., Lee WG., Payne J., Stringer N. and Holland EP. (2019) Predicting water levels in ephemeral wetlands under climate change scenarios. Theoretical Ecology 12(4): 427-435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12080-019-0409-4.

• James A., Chisnall R. and Plank MJ. (2019) Gender and societies: A grassroots approach to women in science. Royal Society Open Science 6(9) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190633.

• James A., McLeod J., Hendy S., Marks K., Rusu D., Nik S. and Plank MJ. (2019) Using family network data in child protection services. PLoS ONE 14(10) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224554.

• Lustig A., James A., Anderson D. and Plank M. (2019) Pest control at a regional scale: Identifying key criteria using a spatially explicit, agent‐based model. Journal of Applied Ecology 56(7): 1515-1527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13387.

• Lustig A., James A., Anderson D. and Plank MJ. (2019) Pest control at a regional scale: Identifying key criteria using a spatially explicit, agent‐based model. Journal of Applied Ecology 56(7): 1515-1527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13387.

• Plank MJ., Stringer N., Lamoureaux SL., Bourdôt GW. and James A. (2019) Limiting Effect of Self-Shading on the Height of Tradescantia fluminensis Mats. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 81(10): 3918-3932. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-019-00631-y.

• Penelope Holland E., Binny RN. and James A. (2018) Optimal control of irrupting pest populations in a climate-driven ecosystem. PeerJ 2018(12) http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6146.

• Holland EP., Mugford J., Binny RN. and James A. (2017) How Herbivore Browsing Strategy Affects Whole-Plant Photosynthetic Capacity. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 79(4): 772-787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-017-0253-x.

• James A., McLeod J., Rouco C., Richardson K. and Tompkins D. (2017) Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free. Royal Society Open Science 4(12) 171209: 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171209.

• Binny RN., Haridas P., James A., Law R., Simpson MJ. and Plank MJ. (2016) Spatial structure arising from neighbour-dependent bias in collective cell movement. PeerJ 4(16) e1689: 24pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1689.

• Binny RN., James A. and Plank MJ. (2016) Collective Cell Behaviour with Neighbour-Dependent Proliferation, Death and Directional Bias. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 78(11): 2277-2301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-016-0222-9.

• Plank MJ., Pitchford JW. and James A. (2016) Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for Fecundity and Swimming Speed of Fish. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 78(2): 280-292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-016-0143-7.

• Binny RN., Plank MJ. and James A. (2015) Spatial moment dynamics for collective cell movement incorporating a neighbour-dependent directional bias. Interface 12(106) 20150228: 14pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0228.

• Holland EP. and James A. (2015) Assessing the efficacy of population-level models of mast seeding. Theoretical Ecology 8(1): 121-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12080-014-0238-4.

• Holland EP., James A., Ruscoe WA., Pech RP. and Byrom AE. (2015) Climate-Based Models for Pulsed Resources Improve Predictability of Consumer Population Dynamics: Outbreaks of House Mice in Forest Ecosystems. PLoS ONE 10(3) e011913 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119139.

• James A., Molloy SM., Ponder-Sutton A., Plank MJ., Lamoureaux SL., Bourdot GW. and Kelly D. (2015) Modelling Tradescantia fluminensis to assess long term survival. Peer Journal 3 e1013.

• James A., Plank MJ., Rossberg AG., Beecham J., Emmerson M. and Pitchford JW. (2015) Constructing random matrices to represent real ecosystems. American Naturalist 185(5): 680-692. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/680496.

• Clark K., James A. and Montelle C. (2014) "We definitely wouldn't be able to solve it all by ourselves, but together..": group synergy in tertiary students' problem-solving practices. Research in Mathematics Education 16(3): 306-323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14794802.2014.950687.

• Hannah J., James A. and Williams P. (2014) Does computer-aided formative assessment improve learning outcomes? International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology 45(2): 269-281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2013.822583.

• James A., Pitchford JW. and Plank MJ. (2013) James et al. reply (to Saavedra, S., Stouffer, D.B. "Disentangling nestedness" disentangled). Nature (500): E2-E3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12381.

• James A., Pitchford JW. and Plank MJ. (2013) James et al. reply. Nature 500(7463): E2-E3.

• James AF., Brown R., Weston KA. and Walker K. (2013) Modelling the growth and population dynamics of the exiled Stockton coal plateau landsnail, Powelliphanta augusta. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 40(3): 175-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2012.723012.

• Kelly D., Geldenhuis A., James A., Holland EP., Plank MJ., Brockie RE., Cowan PE., Harper GA., Lee WG. and Maitland MJ. (2013) Of mast and mean: differential-temperature cue makes mast seeding insensitive to climate change. Ecology Letters 16(1): 90-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12020.

• Brown RG., James A., Pitchford JW. and Plank MJ. (2012) Habitat fragmentation: Simple models for local persistence and the spread of invasive species. Journal of Theoretical Biology 310: 231-238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.06.033.

• James A. and Green S. (2012) A phenomenological model of muscle fatigue and the power-endurance relationship. Journal of Applied Physiology 113(10): 1643-1651. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00800.2012.

• James A. and Kelly D. (2012) An episodic model of honeydew production in scale insects. Austral Ecology 37(3): 308-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02278.x.

• James A., Morison K. and Todd S. (2012) A mathematical model of the defence mechanism of a bombardier beetle. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 10(79) 20120801 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0801.

• James A., Pitchford JW. and Plank MJ. (2012) Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity. Nature 487(7406): 227-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11214.

• James A., Brown R., Basse B., Bourdout GW., Lamoureaux SL., Roberts M. and Saville DJ. (2011) Application of a spatial meta-population model with stochastic parameters to the management of the invasive grass Nassella trichotoma in North Canterbury, New Zealand. Ecological Modelling 222(4): 1030-1037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.11.031.

• James A., Montelle C., Nokes J. and Hannah J. (2011) Meeting the needs of our best and brightest: Curriculum acceleration in tertiary mathematics. International Journal Of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 42(3): 299-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2010.543158.

• James A., Plank MJ. and Edwards AM. (2011) Assessing Lévy walks as models of animal foraging. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8(62): 1233-1247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2011.0200.

• Malchow H., James A. and Brown R. (2011) Competition and diffusive invasion in a noisy environment. Mathematical Medicine and Biology 28(2): 153-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqq008.

• Plank MJ., James A. and Hannah J. (2011) Group by subject or by ability? Tertiary mathematics for engineering students. International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology 42(7): 857-865. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2011.609284.

• James A., Pitchford JW. and Plank MJ. (2010) Efficient or inaccurate? Analytical and numerical modelling of random search strategies. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 72(4): 896-913. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-009-9473-z.

• James A., Green S. and Plank MJ. (2009) Modelling the dynamic response of oxygen uptake to exercise. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 12(2): 361-370. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2009.12.361.

• Law R., Plank MJ., James A. and Blanchard JL. (2009) Size-spectra dynamics from stochastic predation and growth of individuals. Ecology 90(3): 802-811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/07-1900.1.

• James A., Montelle C. and Williams P. (2008) From lessons to lectures: NCEA mathematics results and first-year mathematics performance. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 39(8): 1037-1050. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207390802136552.

• James A., Plank MJ. and Brown R. (2008) Optimizing the encounter rate in biological interactions: Ballistic versus Lévy versus Brownian strategies. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 78(5): 51128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.051128.

• Plank MJ. and James A. (2008) Optimal foraging: Lévy pattern or process? Interface: Journal of the Royal Society 5(26): 1077-1086. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2008.0006.

• Chapman SJ., Plank MJ., James A. and Basse B. (2007) A nonlinear model of age and size-structured populations with applications to cell cycles. ANZIAM Journal 49(2): 151-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S144618110001275X.

• James A., Dungan R., Plank MJ. and Ito R. (2007) A dynamical model of honeydew droplet production by sooty-beech scale insects (Ultracoelostoma spp.) in New Zealand Nothofagus forest. Ecological Modelling 209(2-4): 323-332. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.06.024.

• James A., Pitchford JW. and Plank MJ. (2007) An event-based model of superspreading in epidemics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274(1610): 741-747. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0219.

• Mullowney., l P., James. and A. (2007) The role of variance in capped-rate stochastic growth models with external mortality. Journal of Theoretical Biology 244(2): 228-238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.07.029.

• Sims DW., Southall EJ., Humphries NE., Hays GC., Bradshaw CJA., Pitchford JW., James A., Ahmed MZ., Brierley AS. and Hindell MA. (2007) Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour. Nature 451(28 February 2008): 1098-1102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature06518.

• James A., Baxter PD. and Pitchford JW. (2005) Modelling predation as a capped rate stochastic process, with applications to fish recruitment. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 2(5): 477-487.

• Pitchford JW., James A. and Brindley J. (2005) Quantifying the effects of individual and environmental variability in fish recruitment. Fisheries Oceanography 14(2): 156-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2419.2004.00299.x.

• James A., Brindley J. and McIntosh AC. (2003) Multi-channel monolith reactors as dynamical systems. Combustion and Flame 134(3): 193-205.

• James A., Pitchford JW. and Brindley J. (2003) The relationship between plankton blooms, the hatching of fish larvae, and recruitment. Ecological Modelling 160(1-2): 77-99.

• Pitchford JW., James A. and Brindley J. (2003) Optimal foraging in patchy turbulent environments. Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS) 256: 99-110.

• James A., Brindley J. and McIntosh AC. (2002) Stability of multiple steady states of catalytic combustion. Combustion and Flame 130(1-2): 137-146.

• James A., Brindley J. and McIntosh AC. (2001) Classification of behaviour in a steady plug-flow model of catalytic combustion. Chemical Engineering Science 56(15): 4649-4658.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Lustig A., James A. and Plank M. (2019) Situating social and ecological influence process to combat invasive species: a socioecological approach. Queenstown: New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2019, 18 Sep 2019.

• Lustig A., James A., Tyson W. and Plank M. (2017) Large-scale control of invasive predators A socio-ecological approach. Landcare Research, Christchurch, NZ: Cape-to-city annual research meeting, 29 May 2017.

• Lustig A., James A., Tyson W. and Plank M. (2017) Socio­Ecological modelling for large­scale pest management. University of Canterbury, NZ: University of Canterbury Biomath Day, 4 Jul 2017.

• Plank M., James A., Kelly D., Lamoureaux S. and Bourdot G. (2017) Light and shade: modelling the growth of Tradescantia fluminensis. University of Auckland: New Zealand Mathematics Society Colloquium, 5 Dec 2017.

• Plank M., James A., Kelly D., Lamoureaux S. and Bourdôt G. (2017) Light and shade: modelling the growth of Tradescantia fluminensis. Valencia, Spain: International Workshop on Industrial Mathematics, 18 May 2017.

• Hackney M., Plank MJ. and James A. (2016) Competing fishers and the balanced harvesting of marine resources. Canberra, Australia: Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 8 Feb 2016.

• James A. and Kelly D. (2009) Is this insect too lazy to crap? University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: International Conference on Mathematical Biology and Annual Meeting of The Society for Mathematical Biology, 27-30 Jul 2009.

• James A., Plank M., Stover J. and Timmins S. (2009) Is garden waste dumping a problem? Queenstown, New Zealand: New Zealand Biosecurity Institute Conference (NETS 2009), 14-16 Oct 2009.

• James A., Green S., Plank M. and Graybill S. (2008) Modelling the dynamic response of oxygen uptake to exercise. Arlington, TX, USA: 7th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, 18-21 May 2008.

• James A., Plank M., Dungan R. and Ito R. (2007) The laziest insect in the world? Freemantle, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM 2007), 28 Jan-1 Feb 2007.

• Plank MJ. and James A. (2007) Levy walks in ecology: fact or fiction? Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: 1st Joint International Meeting between the American Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society (AMS-NZMS 2007), 12-15 Dec 2007.

• James A., Dungan R., Plank M. and Ito R. (2006) A dynamical systems approach to modelling honeydew beetles. Wellington, New Zealand: Ecology Across the Tasman 2006, 28 Aug-1 Sep 2006.

• James A., Pitchford JW. and Plank MJ. (2006) Superspreading - when the person next to you on the plane starts sneezing... University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand: NZ Mathematics Colloquium (NZMC2006), 4-6 Dec 2006.

• James A. (2005) Can fish queue? Palmerston North, New Zealand: NZ Mathematics Colloquium, 5 Dec 2005.

• James A. (2004) Age and weight structured population models. Dunedin, New Zealand: 2004 New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium, 6 Dec 2004.

• James A. (2004) Simple models of larval fish growth - Can means be meaningless? Raglan, New Zealand: Thematic programme on dynamical systems and numerical analysis, 1 Aug 2004.

• James A. (2004) Towards a stochastic model of capped growth rates. Trento, Italy: Computational and mathematical population dynamics, 1 Jun 2004.

• James A. (2003) Does variance matter in fisheries recruitment? Cambridge, UK: NTAP meeting, 1 Jun 2003.

• James A. (2003) Modelling growth and foraging using stochastic differential equations, with applications to recruitment in fisheries. Alcala, Spain: 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Ecology, 1 Sep 2003.

• James A. (2003) Soil Biodiversity. York, UK: Soil Biodiversity Workshop, 1 Jul 2003.

• James A. (2002) Can beetles prove that God exists? Coventry, UK: Workshop on Control Theory, 1 Apr 2002.

• James A. (2002) Can beetles prove that God exists? London, UK: British Women in Mathematics Day, 1 Jan 2002.

• James A. (2001) A dynamical systems approach to catalytic combustion. Durham, UK: London Mathematical Society - Durham symposium on combustion theory, 1 Jul 2001.

• James A. (2001) Foraging strategies for patchy environments. Leeds, UK: EuroMech - Pattern Formation by Swimming Micro-Organisms and Cells, 1 Dec 2001.

• James A. (2000) A dynamical systems approach to catalytic combustion. Manchester, UK: British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, 1 Apr 2000.

Additional Publications

• Plank M. (2020) Mathematical modelling to support New Zealand’s response to COVID-19. via Zoom: University of Otago modellers group, 21 May 2020.

• Plank M., James A. and McLeod J. (2018) Relational data in child protection services. Wellington, New Zealand: Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children seminar.

• Plank M., James A. and McLeod J. (2017) Social network analysis for identifying vulnerable children. University of York, UK: York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis seminar series, 12 May 2017.

• Malchow H., James A. and Brown R. (2013) Control of Competitive Bioinvasion. In Lewis MA; Maini PK; Petrovskii SV (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2071: Dispersal, individual movement and spatial ecology: a mathematical perspective: 293-305. Berlin: Springer.

• James J. (2009) What do spider monkeys, Peruvian fishing boats and sulking albatross have in common? Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auckland University, New Zealand: Department Colloquium, 11 Nov 2008.

• James A., Plank MJ. and Dungan R. (2008) The laziest insect in the world. York University, UK: Complex systems seminar series, 23 Oct 2007.

• Plank MJ., James A., Plank MJ. and James A. (2008) Efficiencies of random search strategies. Centre for Complex Systems Analysis, University of York: 30 Oct 2007.

• James A. and Plank MJ. (2007) On fitting power laws to ecological data. : 5pp. [E-print].

• James A. (2006) Is a mean fish a dead fish? Mathematical modelling of larval fish, exploring stochasticity. SBS, University of Canterbury: 28 Oct 2005.

• James A. (2002) Can beetles prove that God exists? York, UK: Biology seminar series, 13 Nov 2000.

• James A. (2001) Mathematical modelling of catalytic combustion. Leeds, UK. University of Leeds.

Editorial Work

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• Theoretical Ecology Editor ( 2014 - 2021)

Review and Refereeing

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• Journal of the Royal Society ( 2006 - 2021)

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