Dr Brad Duthie

Research Fellow

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

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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

Letter

Decision Trees for Data Publishing May Exacerbate Conservation Conflict

Minderman J, Cusack JJ, Duthie AB, Jones IL, Pozo RA, Rakotonarivo OS & Bunnefeld N (2019) Decision Trees for Data Publishing May Exacerbate Conservation Conflict. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3, p. 318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0804-7

Article

Time series analysis reveals synchrony and asynchrony between conflict management effort and increasing large grazing bird populations in northern Europe

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 (2019) Time series analysis reveals synchrony and asynchrony between conflict management effort and increasing large grazing bird populations in northern Europe. Conservation Letters, 12 (1), Art. No.: e12450. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12450

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GMSE: an R package for generalised management strategy evaluation

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. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9 (12), pp. 2396-2401. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13091

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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

Power scaling, vascular branching patterns, and the golden ratio

Frater P & Duthie AB (2016) Power scaling, vascular branching patterns, and the golden ratio. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, 9 (1), pp. 15-18. http://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/article/view/6312; https://doi.org/10.4033/iee.2016.9.4.n

Article

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

Duthie AB & Reid JM (2016) Evolution of inbreeding avoidance and inbreeding preference through mate choice among interacting relatives. American Naturalist, 188 (6), pp. 651-667. https://doi.org/10.1086/688919

Article

Inbreeding parents should invest more resources in fewer offspring

Duthie AB, Lee AM & Reid JM (2016) Inbreeding parents should invest more resources in fewer offspring. 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) Plant connectivity underlies plant-pollinator-exploiter distributions in Ficus petiolaris and associated pollinating and non-pollinating fig wasps. Oikos, 125 (11), pp. 1597-1606. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.02905

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) When does female multiple mating evolve to adjust inbreeding? Effects of inbreeding depression, direct costs, mating constraints, and polyandry as a threshold trait. Evolution, 70 (9), pp. 1927-1943. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13005

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) Variation in parent‐offspring kinship in socially monogamous systems with extra‐pair reproduction and inbreeding. Evolution, 70 (7), pp. 1512-1529. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12953/abstract; https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12953

Article

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

Duthie AC & Duthie AB (2015) Do music and art influence one another? Measuring cross-modal similarities in music and art. Polymath, 5 (1), pp. 1-22. https://ojcs.siue.edu/ojs/index.php/polymath/article/view/3013

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) Resolving the conundrum of inbreeding depression but no inbreeding avoidance: estimating sex-specific selection on inbreeding by song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Evolution, 69 (11), pp. 2846-2861. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12780

Article

Demographic mechanisms of inbreeding adjustment through extra-pair reproduction

Reid JM, Duthie AB, Wolak M & Arcese P (2015) Demographic mechanisms of inbreeding adjustment through extra-pair reproduction. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84 (4), pp. 1029-1040. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12340

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) Trade-offs and coexistence in fluctuating environments: evidence for a key dispersal-fecundity trade-off in five nonpollinating fig wasps. American Naturalist, 186 (1), pp. 151-158. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/681621; https://doi.org/10.1086/681621

Article

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

Duthie AB & Reid JM (2015) What happens after inbreeding avoidance? Inbreeding by rejected relatives and the inclusive fitness benefit of inbreeding avoidance. PLoS ONE, 10 (4), Art. No.: e0125140. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125140

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) Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction. Evolution, 69 (1), pp. 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12557

Article

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

Duthie AB, Abbott K & Nason J (2014) Trade-offs and coexistence: A lottery model applied to fig wasp communities. American Naturalist, 183 (6), pp. 826-841. https://doi.org/10.1086/675897

Thesis

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

Duthie AB (2013) Species interactions in ephemeral patch systems: spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal influences. Doctor of Philosophy. Iowa State University.

Article

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

Duthie AB & Falcy M (2013) The influence of habitat autocorrelation on plants and their seed-eating pollinators. Ecological Modelling, 251, pp. 260-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.12.019

Letter

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

Duthie AB (2004) A letter on: The fork and the paperclip: a memetic perspective. Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 8 (1). http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/2004/vol8/duthie_ab.html

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