Senior Lecturer
Office: 3W2.2D
Email: R.James@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 385467
http://people.bath.ac.uk/pysrj/
Dr Dick James
Profile
The main focus of my research is to develop and use computational methods for the analysis of patterns and processes in populations of social animals. Almost all my work is now done in collaboration with biologists. I am interested in the interplay between local movement rules and global patterns of aggregation, but my particular interest is in the use of network theory to unravel the social structure of group-living animals such as fish, ungulates and mammals, and the dynamics of the passage of goods through colonies of social insects.
Publications
Ward, A.J.W., Herbert-Read, J.E., Jordan, L.A., James, R., Krause, J., Ma, Q., Rubenstein, D.I., Sumpter, D.J.T. and Morrell, L.J., 2013. Initiators, leaders, and recruitment mechanisms in the collective movements of damselfish. American Naturalist, 181 (6), pp. 748-760.
McDonald, G.C., James, R., Krause, J. and Pizzari, T., 2013. Sexual networks : Measuring sexual selection in structured, polyandrous populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 368 (1613).
Blonder, B., Dornhaus, A., Wey, T.W., Sih, A. and James, R., 2012. Temporal dynamics and network analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3 (6), pp. 958-972.
Rutz, C., Burns, Z. T., James, R., Ismar, S. M. H., Burt, J., Otis, B., Bowen, J. and St Clair, J. J. H., 2012. Automated mapping of social networks in wild birds. Current Biology, 22 (17), R669-R671.
Croft, D. P., Hamilton, P. B., Darden, S. K., Jacoby, D. M. P., James, R., Bettaney, E. M. and Tyler, C. R., 2012. The role of relatedness in structuring the social network of a wild guppy population. Oecologia, 170 (4), pp. 955-963.
Krause, S., James, R., Faria, J. J., Ruxton, G. D. and Krause, J., 2011. Swarm intelligence in humans: diversity can trump ability. Animal Behaviour, 81 (5), pp. 941-948.
Edenbrow, M., Darden, S. K., Ramnarine, I. W., Evans, J. P., James, R. and Croft, D. P., 2011. Environmental effects on social interaction networks and male reproductive behaviour in guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Animal Behaviour, 81 (3), pp. 551-558.
Morrell, L. J., Ruxton, G. D. and James, R., 2011. The temporal selfish herd: predation risk while aggregations form. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1705), pp. 605-612.
Wolf, J. B. W., Traulsen, A. and James, R., 2011. Exploring the link between genetic relatedness r and social contact structure k in animal social networks. American Naturalist, 177 (1), pp. 135-142.
Morrell, L. J., Ruxton, G. D. and James, R., 2011. Spatial positioning in the selfish herd. Behavioral Ecology, 22 (1), pp. 16-22.
Krause, J., James, R. and Croft, D. P., 2011. Group living. In: Evans, J. P., Pilastro, A. and Schlupp, I., eds. Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 145-154.
Croft, D. P., Madden, J. R., Franks, D. W. and James, R., 2011. Hypothesis testing in animal social networks. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26 (10), pp. 502-507.
Ioannou, C. C., Couzin, I. D., James, R., Croft, D. P. and Krause, J., 2011. Social organisation and information transfer in schooling fish. In: Brown, C., Laland, K. N. and Krause, J., eds. Fish Cognition and Behavior, 2nd edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 217-239.
Harrison, F., Sciberras, J. and James, R., 2011. Strength of social tie predicts cooperative investment in a human social network. PLoS ONE, 6 (3), e18338.
Krause, J., James, R. and Croft, D. P., 2010. Personality in the context of social networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 365 (1560), pp. 4099-4106.
Sendova-Franks, A. B., Hayward, R., Wulf, B., Klimek, T., James, R., Planque, R., Britton, N. F. and Franks, N. R., 2010. Emergency networking: Famine relief in ant colonies. Animal Behaviour, 79 (2), pp. 473-485.
Franks, D. W., Ruxton, G. D. and James, R., 2010. Sampling animal association networks with the gambit of the group. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64 (3), pp. 493-503.
Croft, D. P., Krause, J., Darden, S. K., Ramnarine, I. W., Faria, J. J. and James, R., 2009. Behavioural trait assortment in a social network: patterns and implications. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63 (10), pp. 1495-1503.
Godfrey, S. S., Bull, C. M., James, R. and Murray, K., 2009. Network structure and parasite transmission in a group living lizard, the gidgee skink, Egernia stokesii. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63 (7), pp. 1045-1056.
Krause, S., Mattner, L., James, R., Guttridge, T., Corcoran, M. J., Gruber, S. H. and Krause, J., 2009. Social network analysis and valid Markov chain Monte Carlo tests of null models. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63 (7), pp. 1089-1096.
Franks, D. W., James, R., Noble, J. and Ruxton, G. D., 2009. A foundation for developing a methodology for social network sampling. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63 (7), pp. 1079-1088.
Krause, J., Lusseau, D. and James, R., 2009. Animal social networks: an introduction. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63 (7), pp. 967-973.
James, R., Croft, D. P. and Krause, J., 2009. Potential banana skins in animal social network analysis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63 (7), pp. 989-997.
Darden, S. K., James, R., Ramnarine, I. W. and Croft, D. P., 2009. Social implications of the battle of the sexes: sexual harassment disrupts female sociality and social recognition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276 (1667), pp. 2651-2656.
Sumpter, D. J. T., Krause, J., James, R., Couzin, I. D. and Ward, A. J. W., 2008. Consensus decision making by fish. Current Biology, 18 (22), pp. 1773-1777.
Croft, D., James, R. and Krause, J., 2008. Exploring Animal Social Networks. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Krause, J., Ward, A. J. W., James, R. and Croft, D., 2008. Group-living and social networks. In: Magnhagen, C., Braithwaite, V. A., Forsgren, E. and Kapoor, B. G., eds. Fish Behaviour. Science Publishers, pp. 485-498.
