Alex James
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New Zealand mathematician and mathematical biologist
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Alex James 's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Auckland
- Bachelors Mathematics University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alex James is a British and New Zealand applied mathematician and mathematical biologist whose research involves the mathematical modeling of wildlife behaviour, gender disparities in academia, and the epidemiology of COVID-19. She is a professor in the school of mathematics and statistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and a researcher with the Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems, where she is Deputy Director for Industry and Stakeholder Engagement.
Alex James 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour (2008) (842)
- Global variation in terrestrial conservation costs, conservation benefits, and unmet conservation needs (2003) (430)
- Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity (2012) (200)
- Of mast and mean: differential-temperature cue makes mast seeding insensitive to climate change. (2013) (190)
- Assessing Lévy walks as models of animal foraging (2011) (151)
- Preexisting autoantibodies to type I IFNs underlie critical COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with APS-1 (2021) (139)
- Optimal foraging: Lévy pattern or process? (2008) (133)
- Size-spectra dynamics from stochastic predation and growth of individuals. (2009) (114)
- Reintroduction of fossorial native mammals and potential impacts on ecosystem processes in an Australian desert landscape (2007) (103)
- Soil‐disturbance by native animals plays a critical role in maintaining healthy Australian landscapes (2009) (83)
- Foraging animals create fertile patches in an Australian desert shrubland (2009) (75)
- Optimizing the encounter rate in biological interactions: Ballistic versus Lévy versus Brownian strategies. (2008) (70)
- An event-based model of superspreading in epidemics (2007) (64)
- Estimated inequities in COVID-19 infection fatality rates by ethnicity for Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) (60)
- The relationship between plankton blooms, the hatching of fish larvae, and recruitment (2003) (53)
- Interactions among threats affect conservation management outcomes: Livestock grazing removes the benefits of fire management for small mammals in Australian tropical savannas (2019) (52)
- Quantifying the effects of individual and environmental variability in fish recruitment (2005) (45)
- Optimal foraging in patchy turbulent environments (2003) (43)
- Foraging pits, litter and plant germination in an arid shrubland. (2010) (40)
- Can the invasive European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) assume the soil engineering role of locally-extinct natives? (2011) (39)
- Suppression and Mitigation Strategies for Control of COVID-19 in New Zealand (2020) (38)
- Comprehensive analysis of SARS‐CoV‐2 antibody dynamics in New Zealand (2020) (38)
- Abiotic effects predominate under prolonged livestock‐induced disturbance (2011) (35)
- Research performance and age explain less than half of the gender pay gap in New Zealand universities (2020) (35)
- Maori and Pacific People in New Zealand have higher risk of hospitalisation for COVID-19 (2020) (33)
- Landscape position moderates how ant nests affect hydrology and soil chemistry across a Chihuahuan Desert watershed (2008) (33)
- Efficient or Inaccurate? Analytical and Numerical Modelling of Random Search Strategies (2010) (33)
- Constructing Random Matrices to Represent Real Ecosystems (2015) (32)
- A stochastic model for COVID-19 spread and the effects of Alert Level 4 in Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) (31)
- Spatial moment dynamics for collective cell movement incorporating a neighbour-dependent directional bias (2015) (31)
- Worldwide border interceptions provide a window into human-mediated global insect movement. (2021) (30)
- Successful contact tracing systems for COVID-19 rely on effective quarantine and isolation (2020) (27)
- Spatial structure arising from neighbour-dependent bias in collective cell movement (2016) (26)
- Gender and societies: a grassroots approach to women in science (2019) (25)
- Collective Cell Behaviour with Neighbour-Dependent Proliferation, Death and Directional Bias (2016) (23)
- Effect of Alert Level 4 on effective reproduction number: review of international COVID-19 cases (2020) (21)
- Managing the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak from border arrivals (2020) (20)
- A phenomenological model of muscle fatigue and the power-endurance relationship. (2012) (19)
- Boom and bust (or not?) among birds in an Australian semi-desert (2017) (18)
- A nonlinear model of age and size-structured populations with applications to cell cycles (2007) (18)
- Mathematical modelling to inform New Zealand’s COVID-19 response (2021) (16)
- James et al. reply (2013) (15)
- A structured model for COVID-19 spread: modelling age and healthcare inequities (2020) (14)
- Early intervention is the key to success in COVID-19 control (2020) (14)
- Climate-Based Models for Pulsed Resources Improve Predictability of Consumer Population Dynamics: Outbreaks of House Mice in Forest Ecosystems (2015) (14)
- On fitting power laws to ecological data (2007) (13)
- Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border biosecurity interceptions. (2020) (13)
- Model-free estimation of COVID-19 transmission dynamics from a complete outbreak (2020) (13)
- Assessing the efficacy of population-level models of mast seeding (2015) (12)
- Pest control at a regional scale: Identifying key criteria using a spatially explicit, agent‐based model (2019) (11)
- Effective reproduction number for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) (11)
- Multi-channel monolith reactors as dynamical systems (2003) (11)
- Application of a spatial meta-population model with stochastic parameters to the management of the invasive grass Nassella trichotoma in North Canterbury, New Zealand. (2011) (11)
- A dynamical model of honeydew droplet production by sooty-beech scale insects (Ultracoelostoma spp.) in New Zealand Nothofagus forest (2007) (10)
- Modelling predation as a capped rate stochastic process, with applications to fish recruitment (2005) (10)
- Habitat fragmentation: simple models for local persistence and the spread of invasive species. (2012) (9)
- Long‐term biodiversity trajectories for pest‐managed ecological restorations: eradication vs. suppression (2020) (8)
- A mathematical model of the defence mechanism of a bombardier beetle (2013) (8)
- The role of variance in capped-rate stochastic growth models with external mortality. (2007) (7)
- Potential reduction in transmission of COVID-19 by digital contact tracing systems (2020) (7)
- Human germline heterozygous gain-of-function STAT6 variants cause severe allergic disease (2022) (7)
- Persistence of ground-dwelling invertebrates in desert grasslands during a period of low rainfall – Part 2 (2018) (6)
- Classification of behaviour in a steady plug-flow model of catalytic combustion (2001) (6)
- Using family network data in child protection services (2019) (6)
- Probability of elimination for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) (5)
- Kia kaua te reo e rite ki te moa, ka ngaro: Do not let the language suffer the same fate as the moa (2019) (5)
- The necessity of tailored control of irrupting pest populations driven by pulsed resources (2020) (4)
- Stability of multiple steady states of catalytic combustion (2002) (4)
- Modelling Tradescantia fluminensis to assess long term survival (2015) (4)
- Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for Fecundity and Swimming Speed of Fish (2016) (3)
- How Herbivore Browsing Strategy Affects Whole-Plant Photosynthetic Capacity (2017) (3)
- Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free (2017) (3)
- Habitat use by the brush-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus blythi) (2018) (3)
- Emergence of balanced harvesting in an agent-based model of an open-access small-scale fishery. (2019) (3)
- Treatment of STAT3 Deficient Hyper IgE Syndrome with Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting Allergic Inflammation. (2022) (3)
- Modelling the dynamic response of oxygen uptake to exercise (2009) (2)
- Optimal control of irrupting pest populations in a climate-driven ecosystem (2018) (2)
- The effect of border controls on the risk of COVID-19 reincursion from international arrivals (2020) (2)
- Estimating decay curves of neutralising antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection (2021) (2)
- Small mammal and reptile persistence in desert grasslands during a period of low rainfall – Part 1 (2018) (2)
- Predicting water levels in ephemeral wetlands under climate change scenarios (2019) (2)
- Control of Competitive Bioinvasion (2013) (2)
- Effect of Alert Level 4 on R eff : review of international COVID-19 cases (2020) (2)
- Potential reduction in transmission of COVID-19 by digital contact tracing systems: a modelling study. (2022) (1)
- Individual heterogeneity affects the outcome of small mammal pest eradication (2021) (1)
- Economic comparison of the use of Alert Levels 3 and 4 in eliminating the Auckland August outbreak : a cost-effectiveness analysis 21 October 2020 (2020) (1)
- Light and shade: modelling the growth of Tradescantia fluminensis (2017) (1)
- An episodic model of honeydew production in scale insects (2012) (1)
- Collective Cell Behaviour with Neighbour-Dependent Proliferation, Death and Directional Bias (2016) (1)
- Digenic Inheritance of Dominant TRAF6 and Recessive OSMR Pathogenic Variants Associated with Short Stature, Atopy, and Eosinophilic Inflammation (2022) (1)
- Individual heterogeneity affects the outcome of small mammal pest eradication (2021) (0)
- CAN SPECIES REINTRODUCTIONS AID ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION? A CASE STUDY FROM ARID AUSTRALIA (2008) (0)
- Note: This paper has not yet undergone formal peer review Probability of elimination for COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) (0)
- Modelling Tradescantia fluminensis and the effect of biological control agents. (2010) (0)
- Predicting water levels in ephemeral wetlands under climate change scenarios (2019) (0)
- Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for Fecundity and Swimming Speed of Fish (2016) (0)
- How Herbivore Browsing Strategy Affects Whole-Plant Photosynthetic Capacity (2017) (0)
- Limiting Effect of Self-Shading on the Height of Tradescantia fluminensis Mats (2019) (0)
- IBQ-R scale definitions from Garstein & Rothbart (2002). (2013) (0)
- Cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour in the exploitation of a common renewable resource with environmental stochasticity (2020) (0)
- A NONLINEAR MODEL OF SIZE-STRUCTURED POPULATIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO CELL CYCLES (2014) (0)
- Levers of change: using mathematical models to compare gender equity interventions in universities (2022) (0)
- Comment: weekly COVID-19 testing with household quarantine and contact tracing is feasible and would probably end the epidemic (2021) (0)
- Assessing the efficacy of population-level models of mast seeding (2014) (0)
- The necessity of tailored control of irrupting pest populations driven by pulsed resources (2020) (0)
- R 6 PREDICTING RECURRENCE OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION BY ON-SITE PROFILING OF FECAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (2017) (0)
- Predicting elimination of evolving virus variants (2021) (0)
- Establishment risk process-based model 9 10 Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border 11 biosecurity interceptions 12 (2020) (0)
- A novel autosomal recessive primary atopic disorder associated with loss-of-function variants in OSMR (2022) (0)
- Resonances in compound processes (2006) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Gender and societies: a grassroots approach to women in science" (2019) (0)
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