Department of Zoology, University of Oxford (2008–2011)

Dobson, A.D.M., Finnie, T.J.R. & Randolph, S.E. (2011). A modified matrix model to describe the seasonal population ecology of the European tick Ixodes ricinus.  Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 1017-1028. 

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Dobson, A.D.M. & Randolph, S.E. (2011). Modelling the effects of recent changes in climate, host density and acaricide treatments on population dynamics of Ixodes ricinus in the UK.  Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 1029-1037. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M., Taylor, J.L.T. & Randolph, S.E. (2011b). Tick (Ixodes ricinus) abundance and seasonality at recreational sites in the UK: hazards in relation to fine-scale habitat types.  Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 2: 67-74. 

 

 

Quine, C.P., Barnett, J., Dobson, A.D.M., Marcu, A., Marzano, M., Moseley, M., O'Brien, L., Randolph, S.E., Taylor, J.L. & Uzzell, D. (2011). Frameworks for risk communication and disease management: the case of Lyme disease and countryside users.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 2010-2022. 

 

 

Randolph, S.E. & Dobson, A.D.M.  (2012). Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm.  Parasitology 139: 847-863. 

 

 

Vollmer, S.A., Bormane, A., Dinnis, R.E., Seelig, F., Dobson, A.D.M., Aanensen, D.M., James, M.C., Donaghy, M., Randolph, S.E., Feil, E.J., Kurtenbach, K. & Margos, G. (2011). Host migration impacts on the phylogeography of Lyme Borreliosis spirochaete species in Europe. Environmental Microbiology 19(1): 184-192. 

 

 

Garrett, K.A., Dobson, A.D.M., Kroschel, J., Natarajan, B., Orlandini, S., Tonnang, H.E.Z. & Valdivia, C. (2013). The effects of climate variability and the color of weather time series on agricultural diseases and pests, and on decisions for their management.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 170: 216-227. 

 

 

 

 

School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling (2013–2015)

 

Dobson, A.D.M. (2013). Ticks in the wrong boxes: assessing error in blanket-drag studies due to occasional sampling. Parasites & Vectors 6: 344. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M. (2014). History and complexity in tick-host dynamics: discrepancies between ‘real’ and ‘visible’ tick populations. Parasites & Vectors 7: 231. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M., Auld, S.K.J.R. & Tinsley, M.C (2015). Insufficient evidence of infection-induced phototactic behaviour in Spodoptera exigua: a comment on van Houte et al (2014). Biology Letters 11: 20150132. 

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Carter, M.J., Emary, K.R.W., Moore, C.E., Parry, C.M., Soeng, S., Putchhat, H., Reaksmey, S., Chanpheaktra, N., Stoesser, N., Dobson, A.D.M., Day, N.P.J., Kumar, V. & Blacksell, S.D. (2015). Rapid diagnostic tests for dengue virus infection in febrile Cambodian children: Diagnostic accuracy and incorporation into diagnostic algorithms.  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9(2): e0003424. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M. & Auld, S.K.J.R. (2016). Epidemiological implications of host biodiversity and vector biology: Key insights from simple models. American Naturalist 187: 405-422. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences (2016–2019) 

 

Kilpatrick, A.M., Dobson, A.D.M., Levi, T., et al. (2017). Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372(1722), p.20160117. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Beale, C.M., Ibbett, H. & Keane, A. (2018). Detecting deterrence from patrol data. Conservation Biology 33: 665-675. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Ingram, D.J. & Keane, A. (2019). A framework for assessing impacts of wild meat hunting practices in the Tropics. Human Ecology 47(3): 449-464. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M., de Lange, E., Keane, A., Ibbett, H. & Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2019). Integrating models of human behaviour between the individual and population levels to inform conservation interventions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 374 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Aebischer, N.J., Beale, C.M., Brozovic, R., Coals, P. et al. (2020). Making messy data work for conservation. One Earth 2(5): 455-465. 

 

 

Ibbett, H., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Beale, C., Dobson, A.D.M., Griffin, O., O'Kelly, H., & Keane, A. (2020). Experimentally assessing the effect of search effort on snare detectability. Biological Conservation 247: 108581. 

 

 

Ibbett, H., Keane, A., Dobson, A.D.M., Griffin, O., Travers, H. & Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2021). Estimating hunting prevalence and wild meat reliance in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains. Oryx 1-11. 

 

 

De Lange, E., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Dobson, A.D.M. & Keane, A. (2021). Combining simulation and empirical data to explore the scope for social network interventions in conservation. Biological Conservation 261: 109292. 

 

 

Dancer, A., Keane, A., Beale, C.M., Dobson, A.D.M., Amin, R., Freeman, R., Imong, I., Jones, K., Linkie, M., Long, B., Okeke, F.O., Plumptre, A.J., Rowcliffe, J.M., Stokes, E.J., van der Westhuizen, E. & Collen, B. (2022). Evidence of deterrence from patrol data: Trialling application of a differenced‐CPUE metric. Conservation Science and Practice e12746. 

 

 

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School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling (2024–2025)

Nthambi, M., Simpson, K., Bradfer-Lawrence, T., Dobson, A., Finch, T., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Park, K., Watts, K. and Hanley, N., 2024. Economic incentives for woodland creation on farmland: Modelling the impacts on biodiversity. Ecological Economics 224: 108265.

 

 

Bradfer-Lawrence, T., Dobson, A.D., Finch, T., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Hanley, N., Matthiopoulos, J., Nthambi, M., Simpson, K., Watts, K., Whytock, R.C. and Park, K.J., 2025. Spillovers and legacies of land management on temperate woodland biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9(6): 1009-1020. 

 

 

Dobson, A.D.M., Bradfer-Lawrence, T., Finch, T., Hanley, N., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Nthambi, M., Simpson, K., Watts, K. and Park, K.J., 2025. Combining occupancy and dispersal models to predict the conservation benefits of land-use change. Landscape Ecology 40(4): 75.