Lecturer in Environmental Modelling
Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Contact details
http://www.stir.ac.uk/people/alexanderduthie
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".
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/).
Article
The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions
Rakotonarivo SO, Bell AR, Abernethy K, Minderman J, Duthie AB, Redpath S, Keane A, Travers H, Bourgeois S, Moukagni L, Cusack JJ, Jones IL, Pozo RA & Bunnefeld N (2021) The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions. Ecology and Society, 26 (2), Art. No.: 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12306-260208
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A multispecies assessment of wildlife impacts on local community livelihoods
Pozo RA, LeFlore EG, Duthie AB, Bunnefeld N, Jones IL, Minderman J, Rakotonarivo S & Cusack JJ (2021) A multispecies assessment of wildlife impacts on local community livelihoods. Conservation Biology, 35 (1), pp. 297-306. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13565
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Rakotonarivo OS, Jones II, Bell AR, Duthie AB, Cusack JJ, Minderman J, Hogan J, Hodgson I & Bunnefeld N (2021) Experimental evidence for conservation conflict interventions: the importance of financial payments, community trust and equity attitudes. People and Nature, 3 (1), pp. 162-175. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10155
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Effects of stakeholder empowerment on crane population and agricultural production
Nilsson L, Bunnefeld N, Minderman J & Duthie AB (2021) Effects of stakeholder empowerment on crane population and agricultural production. Ecological Modelling, 440, Art. No.: 109396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109396
Article
Component response rate variation underlies the stability of highly complex finite systems
Duthie AB (2020) Component response rate variation underlies the stability of highly complex finite systems. Scientific Reports, 10, Art. No.: 8296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64401-w
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Duthie AB, Minderman J, Rakotonarivo OS, Ochoa G & Bunnefeld N (2020) Online multiplayer games as virtual laboratories for collecting data on social-ecological decision making. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13633
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Integrating conflict, lobbying, and compliance to predict the sustainability of natural resource use
Cusack JJ, Duthie AB, Minderman J, Jones IL, Pozo RA, Rakotonarivo OS, Redpath S & Bunnefeld N (2020) Integrating conflict, lobbying, and compliance to predict the sustainability of natural resource use. Ecology and Society, 25 (2), Art. No.: 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-11552-250213
Research Report
Duthie B, Minderman J & Bunnefeld N (2020) Development of a population model tool to predict shooting levels of Greenland barnacle geese on Islay. NatureScot. https://www.nature.scot/naturescot-research-report-1039-development-population-model-tool-predict-shooting-levels-greenland
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
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
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
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. https://doi.org/10.4033/iee.2016.9.4.n
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
