2015 Research outputs
Journal Articles
Adam Jaffe, A Framework for Evaluating the Beneficial Impacts of Publicly Funded Research, Motu Note 15, 2015, http://motu.nz/our-work/productivity-and-innovation/ science-and-innovation-policy/a-framework-for-evaluating-the-beneficial-impacts-of-publicly-funded-research/
Alex E. Morrison and Melinda Allen, ‘Agent-based modelling, molluscan population dynamics, and archaeomalacology’, Quaternary International, in pre-press, 2015
Alex James, Michael J. Plank, Axel G. Rossberg, Jonathan Beecham, Mark Emmerson and Jonathan W. Pitchford, ‘Constructing random matrices to represent real ecosystems’, American Naturalist, vol. 185, 2015, pp. 680-692
Alex James, Sue M. Molloy, Agate Ponder-Sutton, Michael J. Plank, Shona L. Lamoureaux, Graeme W. Bourdôt and Dave Kelly, ‘Modelling Tradescantia fluminensis to assess long term survival’, PeerJ, 2015
Andrea E. Byrom, Dean P. Anderson, Morgan Coleman, Caroline Thomson, Martin L. Cross and Roger P. Pech, ‘Assessing Movements of Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) in Relation to Depopulated Buffer Zones for the Management of Wildlife Tuberculosis in New Zealand’, PLoS One, vol. 10, 2015
Armando J. R. Amaris and Murray P. Cox, ‘A flexible theoretical representation for the temporal dynamics of structured populations as paths on polytope complexes’, Journal of Mathematical Biology, vol. 71, 2015, pp. 735-766
B. D. Emanuelsson, W. T. Baisden, N. A. N. Bertler, E. D. Keller and V. Gkinis, ‘High-resolution continuous-flow analysis setup for water isotopic measurement from ice cores using laser spectroscopy’, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 8, 2015, pp. 2869-2883
Barry Milne, Roy Lay Yee, J.M. McLay, J. Pearson, Martin von Randow and Peter Davis, ‘Modelling the Early life-course (MELC): A microsimulation model of child development in New Zealand’, The International Journal of Microsimulation, vol. 8, 2015, pp. 28-60
Benjamin D Jones, Thegn N. Ladefoged, Gregory Asner, ‘Tracing the resilience and revitalisation of historic taro production in watpi’o valley, Hawai’i’, Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 124, 2015, pp. 83-109
Christopher M. Stevenson, Cedric O. Puleston, Peter M. Vitousek, Oliver A. Chadwick, Sonia Haoa and Thegn N. Ladefoged, ‘Variation in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) land use indicates production and population peaks prior to European contact’, Variation in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) land use indicates production and population peaks prior to European contact, vol. 112, 2015, pp. 1025-1030
Dave Maré, Dean R Hyslop and Richard Fabling, Firm Productivity Growth and Skill, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Working Papers 15-18, 2015,
Dave Maré, Ruth M. Pinkerton and Jacques Poot, Residential Assimilation of Immigrants: A Cohort Approach, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Working Papers 15-20, 2015,
David Framil Carpeño, Takahito Ohmura, Ling Zhang, Jérôme Leveneur, Michelle Dickinson, Christopher Seal, John Kennedy and Margaret Hyland, ‘Nanomechanical and in situ TEM characterization of boron carbide thin films on helium implanted substrates: Delamination, real-time cracking and substrate buckling’, Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 639, 2015, pp. 54-64
E. Penelope Holland and Alex James, ‘Assessing the efficacy of population-level models of mast seeding’, Theoretical Ecology, vol. 8, 2015, pp. 121-132
Eyal Apatov, Richard Fabling, Adam B. Jaffe, Michele Morris and Matt Thirkettle, ‘Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand: First Estimates from the Longitudinal Business Database’, Social Science Research Network, 2015
Grant L. Norbury, Roger P. Pech, Andrea E. Byrom and John Innes, ‘Density-impact functions for terrestrial vertebrate pests and indigenous biota: Guidelines for conservation managers’, Biological Conservation, vol. 191, 2015, pp. 409-420
Grigor Aslanyan and Richard Easther, ‘Signatures of the very early Universe: Inflation, spatial curvature, and large scale anomalies’, Physical Review D – Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 91, 2015
Hong-bo Xiao, Qiong Chen, Ji-min Wang, Les Oxley and Heng-yun Ma, ‘The puzzle of the missing meat: Food away from home and China’s meat statistics’, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, vol. 14, 2015, pp. 1033-1044
Huguette Croisier, Xiahui Tan, Jun Chen, James Sneyd, Michael J. Sanderson and Bindi S. Brook, ‘Ryanodine Receptor Sensitization Results in Abnormal Calcium Signaling in Airway Smooth Muscle Cells’, American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology, vol. 53, 2015, pp. 703-711
Isaac H. McIvor, Thegn N. Ladefoged, ‘A multi-scalar analysis of Māori land use on Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island), New Zealand’, Archaeology in Oceania, in pre-press, 2015
J. McLay, Roy Lay Yee, Barry Milne and Peter Davis, ‘Regression-style models for parameter estimation in dynamic microsimulation: An empirical performance assessment’, The International Journal of Microsimulation, vol. 8, 2015, pp. 83-127
James C. Russell, John G. Innes, Philip H. Brown and Andrea E. Byrom, ‘Predator-free New Zealand: Conservation country’, BioScience, vol. 65, 2015, pp. 520-525
Jason Gush, Adam B. Jaffe, Victoria Larsen and Athene Laws, ‘The Effect of Public Funding on Research Output: the New Zealand Marsden Fund’, National Bureau of Economic Research, issue w21652, 2015
Jean Sanderson, Herawati Sudoyo, Tatiana M. Karafet, Michael F. Hammer and Murray P. Cox, ‘Reconstructing past admixture processes from local genomic ancestry using wavelet transformation’, Genetics, vol. 200, 2015, pp. 469-481
Jeppe Kolding, Alida Bundy, Paul A.M. van Zwieten and Michael J. Plank, ‘Fisheries, the inverted food pyramid’, ICES Journal of Marine Science, in pre-press, 2015
Joseph M. Craine, Andrew J. Elmore, Lixin Wang, Laurent Augusto, W. Troy Baisden, E. N. J. Brookshire, Michael D. Cramer, Niles J. Hasselquist, Erik A. Hobbie, Ansgar Kahmen, Keisuke Koba, J. Marty Kranabetter, Michelle C. Mack, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Jordan R. Mayor, Kendra K. McLauchlan, Anders Michelsen, Gabriela B. Nardoto, Rafael S. Oliveira, Steven S. Perakis, Pablo L. Peri, Carlos A. Quesada, Andreas Richter, Louis A. Schipper, Bryan A. Stevenson, Benjamin L. Turner, Ricardo A. G. Viani, Wolfgang Wanek and Bernd Zeller, ‘Convergence of soil nitrogen isotopes across global climate gradients’, Scientific Reports, vol. 5, 2015
Katharina T. Huber, Simone Linz, Vincent Moulton and Taoyang Wu, ‘Spaces of phylogenetic networks from generalized nearest-neighbor interchange operations’, Journal of Mathematical Biology, vol. 72, 2015, pp. 699-725
Katie Sharp, Edmund Crampin and James Sneyd, ‘A spatial model of fluid recycling in the airways of the lung, Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 382, 2015, 198-215
Kris Inwood, Les Oxley and Evan Roberts, ‘Physical growth and ethnic inequality in New Zealand prisons, 1840–1975’, History of the Family, vol. 20, 2015, pp. 249-269
Layne C. Price, Hiranya V. Peiris, Jonathan Frazer, Richard Easther, ‘Designing and testing inflationary models with Bayesian networks’, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2016
Leo van Iersel, Steven Kelk, Nela Lekić and Simone Linz, ‘Satisfying ternary permutation constraints by multiple linear orders or phylogenetic trees’, Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 609, 2015, pp. 1-21
M. Horrocks, W. T. Baisden, M. A. Harper, M. Marra, J. Flenley, D. Feek, S. Haoa-Cardinali, E. D. Keller, L. González Nualart and T. Edmunds Gorman, ‘A plant microfossil record of Late Quaternary environments and human activity from Rano Aroi and surroundings, Easter Island’, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 54, 2015, pp. 279-303
Marie Auger-Méthé, Andrew E. Derocher, Michael J. Plank, Edward A. Codling and Mark A. Lewis, ‘Differentiating the Lévy walk from a composite correlated random walk’, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, 2015, pp. 1179-1189
Michael J. Plank and Richard Law, ‘Spatial Point Processes and Moment Dynamics in the Life Sciences: A Parsimonious Derivation and Some Extensions’, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 77, 2015, pp. 586-613
Naomi S. Wells, W. Troy Baisden and Tim J. Clough, ‘Ammonia volatilisation is not the dominant factor in determining the soil nitrate isotopic composition of pasture systems’, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol. 199, 2015, pp. 290-300
Natasha Phillips, Thegn N Ladefoged, Blair W McPhee, Gregory P Asner, ‘Location, location, location: A viewshed analysis of heiau spatial and temporal relationships in leeward Kohala, Hawai’i’, Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 6, 2015, pp. 21-40
Nick Hanley, Les Oxley, David Greasley, Eoin McLaughlin and Matthias Blum, ‘Empirical Testing of Genuine Savings as an Indicator of Weak Sustainability: A Three-Country Analysis of Long-Run Trends’, Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 63, 2015, pp. 313-338
Rachelle N. Binny, Michael J. Plank and Alex James, ‘Spatial moment dynamics for collective cell movement incorporating a neighbour-dependent directional bias’, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 12, 2015
Tinh Doan, David Maré and Kris Iyer, ‘Productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment in New Zealand’, New Zealand Economic Papers, vol. 49, 2015, pp. 249-275
Vitor L. de Matos, Andy B. Philpott and Erlon C. Finardi, ‘Improving the performance of Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming’, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 290, 2015, pp. 196-208
Wandrille Duchemin, Pierre-Yves Dupont, Matthew A. Campbell, Austen R.D. Ganley and Murray P. Cox, ‘HyLiTE: Accurate and flexible analysis of gene expression in hybrid and allopolyploid species’, BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 16, 2015
William Godsoe, Rua Murray and Michael J. Plank, ‘Information on biotic interactions improves transferability of distribution models’, American Naturalist, vol. 185, 2015, pp. 281-290
Xingjiang Chen and James Sneyd, ‘A Computational Model of the Dendron of the GnRH Neuron’, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 77, 2015, pp. 904-926
Yanjie Zhua, Xiaojing Ren, Les Oxley and Hengyun Ma, ‘Why is there controversy regarding China’s staple grain food market integration? Evidence and implication from price convergent club analysis’, Applied Economics, vol. 47, 2015, pp. 5634- 5647
