Michael McCarthy

Fire and tree species diversity in tropical peat swamp forests

Liubov Volkova, Haruni Krisnawati, Muhammad A Qirom, Wahyu C Adinugroho, Rinaldi Imanuddin, Freddy Jontara Hutapea, Michael A McCarthy, Julian Di Stefano, Christopher J Weston

Journal article  |  2023  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tropical peat swamp forests contain diverse plant communities that support many endangered flora and fauna species. These forests ..

A field test of mechanisms underpinning animal diversity in recently burned landscapes

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

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Planned burning generates different types of pyrodiversity, however, experimental tests of how alternative spatial patterns of bur..

An analytical solution for optimising detections when accounting for site establishment costs

Kevin D Newman, Jenny L Nelson, Louise K Durkin, Jemma K Cripps, Michael A McCarthy

Journal article  |  2022  |  ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Indirect surveillance methods, such as remote cameras and acoustic monitoring, are increasingly used in ecological surveys. The ti..

Partial migration of Brolgas (Antigone rubicunda) within a restricted range is revealed by GPS tracking

Inka Veltheim, Simon Cook, Michael A McCarthy, Grant C Palmer, FA Richard Hill

Journal article  |  2022  |  EMU-AUSTRAL ORNITHOLOGY

No quantitative information exists on the movement patterns of Brolga, Antigone rubicunda (Gruidae) although the species is consid..

Integrating climate change and management scenarios in population models to guide the conservation of marine turtles

MP Jensen, T Eguchi, NN FitzSimmons, MA McCarthy, MMPB Fuentes, M Hamann, CJ Limpus, IP Bell, MA Read

Journal article  |  2022  |  Bulletin of Marine Science

The globally significant green turtle (Chelonia mydas) population in the northern Great Barrier Reef is threatened by anthropogeni..

Bringing back the endangered bridled nail-tailed wallaby at Taunton National Park (Scientific) through effective predator control

John Augusteyn, Michael A McCarthy, Alan Robley, Anthony Pople, Barry Nolan, Graham Hemson, Rhonda Melzer, Samuel Richards, Andrew Dinwoodie

Journal article  |  2022  |  WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Context: Feral cats (Felis catus), wild dogs/dingoes (Canis familiaris) and foxes (Vulpes vulpes) are predators of the endangered ..

A field experiment characterizing variable detection rates during plant surveys

Cindy E Hauser, Katherine M Giljohann, Michael A McCarthy, Georgia E Garrard, Andrew P Robinson, Nicholas SG Williams, Joslin L Moore

Journal article  |  2022  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Surveys aimed at finding threatened and invasive species can be challenging due to individual rarity and low and variable individu..

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 ..

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..

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..