Dr Brad Duthie

Research Fellow

Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

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ORCID 0000-0001-8343-4995

About me

I am an evolutionary ecologist, modeller, and theoretician with broad interests across the life sciences. I completed my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Iowa State University in 2013, developing and testing theory on species coexistence under environmental fluctuations. I then came to Scotland to do post-doctoral research developing inbreeding theory at the University of Aberdeen. Since 2016, I have worked at the University of Stirling on projects including modelling conservation conflict and community ecology in insect systems. I am currently a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow working on the project, "Biodiversity and ecosystem function in ephemeral patches: a trait-based approach".

Research

My research takes an integrative approach to addressing ecological and evolutionary questions through the development of theory, empirical hypothesis testing, and mathematical and computational modelling. My current foci include trait ecology, species interactions, conservation conflicts, and the evolution of inbreeding. I am also the lead software developer for the GMSE R Package for Generalised Management Strategy Evaluation (https://confoobio.github.io/gmse/).

Outputs

Article

GMSE: an R package for generalised management strategy evaluation (Forthcoming/Available Online)

Duthie AB, Cusack JJ, Jones IL, Minderman J, Nilsen EB, Pozo RA, Rakotonarivo OS, Van Moorter B & Bunnefeld N (2018) GMSE: an R package for generalised management strategy evaluation (Forthcoming/Available Online). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13091.

Article

Towards the general mechanistic prediction of community dynamics

Paine CET, Deasey A & Duthie AB (2018) Towards the general mechanistic prediction of community dynamics. Functional Ecology, 32 (7), pp. 1681-1692. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13096.

Article

Games as Tools to Address Conservation Conflicts

Redpath S, Keane A, Andren H, Baynham-Herd Z, Bunnefeld N, Duthie AB, Frank J, Garcia CA, Mansson J, Nilsson L, Pollard CRJ, Rakotonarivo OS, Salk CF & Travers H (2018) Games as Tools to Address Conservation Conflicts. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33 (6), pp. 415-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.03.005.

Article

Evolution of precopulatory and post-copulatory strategies of inbreeding avoidance and associated polyandry

Duthie AB, Bocedi G, Germain RR & Reid JM (2018) Evolution of precopulatory and post-copulatory strategies of inbreeding avoidance and associated polyandry. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31 (1), pp. 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13189.

Article

Evolution of inbreeding avoidance and inbreeding preference through mate choice among interacting relatives

Duthie AB & Reid JM (2016)
American Naturalist, 188 (6), pp. 651-667.

Article

Inbreeding parents should invest more resources in fewer offspring

Duthie AB, Lee A & Reid JM (2016)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283 (1843), Art. No.: 20161845. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1845.

Article

Plant connectivity underlies plant-pollinator-exploiter distributions in Ficus petiolaris and associated pollinating and non-pollinating fig wasps

Duthie AB & Nason J (2016)
Oikos, 125 (11), pp. 1597-1606.

Article

When does female multiple mating evolve to adjust inbreeding? Effects of inbreeding depression, direct costs, mating constraints, and polyandry as a threshold trait

Duthie AB, Bocedi G & Reid JM (2016)
Evolution, 70 (9), pp. 1927-1943.

Article

Variation in parent‐offspring kinship in socially monogamous systems with extra‐pair reproduction and inbreeding

Reid JM, Bocedi G, Nietlisbach P, Duthie AB, Wolak M, Gow E & Arcese P (2016)
Evolution, 70 (7), pp. 1512-1529.

Article

Power scaling, vascular branching patterns, and the golden ratio

Frater P & Duthie AB (2016)
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, 9 (1), pp. 15-18.

Article

Resolving the conundrum of inbreeding depression but no inbreeding avoidance: estimating sex-specific selection on inbreeding by song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)

Reid JM, Arcese P, Bocedi G, Duthie AB, Wolak M & Keller LF (2015)
Evolution, 69 (11), pp. 2846-2861.

Article

Demographic mechanisms of inbreeding adjustment through extra-pair reproduction

Reid JM, Duthie AB, Wolak M & Arcese P (2015)
Journal of Animal Ecology, 84 (4), pp. 1029-1040.

Article

Trade-offs and coexistence in fluctuating environments: evidence for a key dispersal-fecundity trade-off in five nonpollinating fig wasps

Duthie AB, Abbott K & Nason J (2015)
American Naturalist, 186 (1), pp. 151-158.

Article

What happens after inbreeding avoidance? Inbreeding by rejected relatives and the inclusive fitness benefit of inbreeding avoidance

Duthie AB & Reid JM (2015)
PLoS ONE, 10 (4), Art. No.: e0125140.

Article

Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction

Reid JM, Arcese P, Keller LF, Germain R, Duthie AB, Losdat S, Wolak M & Nietlisbach P (2015)
Evolution, 69 (1), pp. 59-74.

Article

Do music and art influence one another? Measuring cross-modal similarities in music and art

Duthie AC & Duthie AB (2015)
Polymath, 5 (1), pp. 1-22.

Article

Trade-offs and coexistence: A lottery model applied to fig wasp communities

Duthie AB, Abbott K & Nason J (2014)
American Naturalist, 183 (6), pp. 826-841.

Article

The influence of habitat autocorrelation on plants and their seed-eating pollinators

Duthie AB & Falcy M (2013)
Ecological Modelling, 251, pp. 260-270.

Thesis

Species interactions in ephemeral patch systems: spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal influences

Duthie AB (2013)
Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State University.

Letter

A letter on: The fork and the paperclip: a memetic perspective

Duthie AB (2004)
Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 8 (1).

Article

Time series analysis reveals synchrony and asynchrony between conflict management effort and increasing large grazing bird populations in northern Europe (Forthcoming/Available Online)

Cusack J, Duthie AB, Rakotonarivo OS, Pozo R, Mason T, Månsson J, Nilsson L, Tombre I, Eythórsson E, Madsen J, Tulloch AIT, Hearn R, Redpath S & Bunnefeld N (2018) Time series analysis reveals synchrony and asynchrony between conflict management effort and increasing large grazing bird populations in northern Europe (Forthcoming/Available Online). Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12450.

University of Stirling

Dr Brad Duthie

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