Michael McCarthy

Efficient effort allocation in line-transect distance sampling of high-density species: When to walk further, measure less-often and gain precision

Kathryn Knights, Michael A McCarthy, James Camac, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2021  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Line-transect distance sampling is widely used to estimate population densities using distances of observed targets from transect ..

Predicting mammal responses to pyrodiversity: From microbats to macropods

Katharine L Senior, Katherine M Giljohann, Michael A McCarthy, Frederick W Rainsford, Luke T Kelly

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fire has shaped Australia's diverse mammal fauna for millennia. However, ongoing changes to fire regimes threaten native mammal po..

Traits explain invasion of alien plants into tropical rainforests

Decky I Junaedi, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Peter A Vesk, Michael A McCarthy, Mark A Burgman, Jane A Catford

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

1. The establishment of new botanic gardens in tropical regions highlights a need for weed risk assessment tools suitable for trop..

Does intraspecific variation in demography have implications for fire management of an obligate-seeder shrub across its geographic range?

John W Morgan, Michael A McCarthy, Emily Willocks

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Predicting changes in the abundance of species over time is a central goal of conservation ecology. Typically, demographic data ar..

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Luke T Kelly, Katherine M Giljohann, Andrea Duane, Nuria Aquilue, Sally Archibald, Enric Batllori, Andrew F Bennett, Stephen T Buckland, Quim Canelles, Michael F Clarke, Marie-Josee Fortin, Virgilio Hermoso, Sergi Herrando, Robert E Keane, Frank K Lake, Michael A McCarthy, Alejandra Moran-Ordonez, Catherine L Parr, Juli G Pausas, Trent D Penman, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENCE

BACKGROUND Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation in fire regimes continues to be a sourc..

Defining and evaluating predictions of joint species distribution models

David P Wilkinson, Nick Golding, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Reid Tingley, Michael A McCarthy

Journal article  |  2020  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Joint species distribution models (JSDMs) simultaneously model the distributions of multiple species, while accounting for residua..

Reallocating budgets among ongoing and emerging conservation projects

Chung-Huey Wu, Aaron J Dodd, Cindy E Hauser, Michael A McCarthy

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Conserving biodiversity and combating ecological hazards require cost-effective allocation of limited resources among potential ma..

Using decision science to evaluate global biodiversity indices

Kate E Watermeyer, Payal Bal, Michael J Burgass, Lucie M Bland, Ben Collen, Chris Hallam, Luke T Kelly, Michael A McCarthy, Tracey J Regan, Simone Stevenson, Brendan A Wintle, Emily Nicholson, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Global biodiversity indices are used to measure environmental change and progress toward conservation goals, yet few indices have ..

The influence of weather and moon phase on small mammal activity

Katharine L Senior, Julia Ramsauer, Michael A McCarthy, Luke T Kelly

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY

Small mammals are commonly surveyed using live trapping but the influence of weather conditions on trap success is largely unknown..

Citizen scientists reveal nationwide trends and drivers in the breeding activity of a threatened bird, the malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)

Joe Benshemesh, Darren Southwell, Richard Barker, Michael McCarthy

Journal article  |  2020  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Citizen scientists regularly collect monitoring data for threatened species to improve the spatial and temporal resolution of samp..