University home page

Find an ExpertProfiling the University of Melbourne's Researchers

DR MICHAEL MCCARTHY



Contact Details

Organization: Botany
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW - RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
Email:
Homepage: www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~mccarthy/
Work: 8344 6856
Fax: 9347 9123
Room: 104
Level: 01
Building: Botany
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Environmental risk assessment, Quantitative Ecology, Decision Theory Bayesian, Ecological Modelling, Extinction Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Australia The Australian National University Research
United States University of California - Santa Barbara Research
Israel Technion Israel Institute of Technology Research
Australia Deakin University Research
Australia The University of Queensland Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Forest Science (Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1995

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal 08-May-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Testing the utility of habitat models in making conservation planning decisions Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Optimal management of complex ecological systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Practical, powerful & cost effective indicators of sustainable forest management for the conservation of biological diversity Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2003
The distribution of the common brushtail possum in metropolitan Melbourne and its current status in remnant dry sclerophyll forest Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Postgraduate Student Research Grants (HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE RESEARCH FUND) 01/01/2005
THE DIVERSITY OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH EUCALYPTUS OBLIQUA AND E. CAMALDULENSIS ALONG AN URBAN TO RURAL GRADIENT Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 01/02/2006
COMMONWEALTH ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH FACILITY (CERF) - APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION ANALYSIS Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE,
DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme (DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE) 01/07/2006
THE DIVERSITY OF MICROFUNGI FOUND IN RED GUM WOODLANDS ALONG AN URBAN TO RURAL GRADIENT Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 01/01/2007
Optimizing the allocation of resources for defending marine protected areas against invasive species. Chief Investigator PARKS VICTORIA,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008
Synthesising prior information for ecological research and management Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
Robust prediction and decision strategies for managing extinction risks under climate change Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 30/04/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
A MODEL OF POPULATION VIABILITY TO ASSESS IMPACTS OF WINDFARMS ON THE VICTORIAN BROLGA POPULATION Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 30/04/2008
ECOLOGICAL MODELING FOR THE CORROBOREE FROG CAPTIVE BREEDING AND REINTRODUCTION PROGRAM Chief Investigator DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE - NSW 06/06/2008
COMMONWEALTH ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH FACILITY (CERF) - APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION ANALYSIS Chief Investigator DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Streamlining 'search and destroy': cost-effective surveillance for invasive species management
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 683-692
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Allometric scaling and bayesian priors for annual survival of birds and mammals
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The American Naturalist
    Volume: 172
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 216-222
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Alternative measures to value at risk
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Risk Finance
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 81-88
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Cost-effective suppression and eradication of invasive predators
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 89-98
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • How we value the future affects our desire to learn
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ecological Applications
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1061-1069
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Optimal investment in conservation of species
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1428-1435
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Optimal management of a flammable multi-stand forest for timber production and maintenance of nesting sites for wildlife
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 255
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 3857-3865
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Optimal marking of threatened species to balance benefits of information with impacts of marking
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1506-1512
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Resources at the landscape scale influence possum abundance
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 243-252
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Some practical suggestions for improving engagement between researchers and policy-makers in natural resource management
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ecological Management & Restoration
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 182-186
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Toe clipping of Anurans for mark-recapture studies: acceptable if justified
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Herpetological Review
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 148-149
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Traits of British alien and native urban plants
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Ecology
    Volume: 96
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 853-859
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • When have we looked hard enough? A novel method for setting minimum survey effort protocols for flora surveys
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 986-998
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • When to stop managing or surveying cryptic threatened species
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 105
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 13936-13940
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2007

Books

  • Bayesian methods for ecology
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • An info-gap approach to power and sample size calculations


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Environmetrics
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 189-203
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Active adaptive management for conservation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 956-963
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Big decisions and sparse data: adapting scientific publishing to the needs of practical conservation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Avian Conservation and Ecology
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 14
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Info-gap decision theory for assessing the management of catchments for timber production and urban water supply
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Environmental Management
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 553-562
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Accounting for management costs in sensitivity analyses of matrix population models
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 893-905
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Accounting for uncertainty in marine reserve design
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 2-11
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • An info-gap approach to power and sample size calculations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Environmetrics
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 189-203
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Evaluation of PVA models of arboreal marsupials: coupling models with long-term monitoring data
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Biodiversity and Conservation
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 4079-4096
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Local extinction of grassland plants: the landscape matrix is more important than patch attributes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecology
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 3000-3006
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Logic for designing nature reserves for multiple species
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The American Naturalist
    Volume: 167
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 717-727
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Modelling the occurrence of rainbow lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) in Melbourne
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 240-253
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Optimal eradication: when to stop looking for an invasive plant?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 759-766
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Rejoinder: uncertainty and decision making
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 13-14
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A theory for optimal monitoring of marine reserves
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 829-837
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Inferring the persistence of indigenous mammals in response to urbanisation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Animal Conservation
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 309-319
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Plant traits and local extinctions in natural grasslands along an urban-rural gradient
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Ecology
    Volume: 93
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1203-1213
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Profiting from prior information in Bayesian analyses of ecological data
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1012-1019
    Publisher: Blackwell Scientific(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The abundance of hollow-bearing trees in urban dry sclerophyll forest and the effect of wind on hollow development
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 122
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 181-192
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The consistency of extinction risk classification protocols
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1969-1977
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Theory for Designing Nature Reserves for Single Species
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The American Naturalist
    Volume: 165
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 250-257
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2004

Books

  • Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
    Authors(s):

Book Chapters

  • Giant velvet worm, Tasmanipatus baretti (Onychophora) in Tasmania, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Book: Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
    Authors(s):
  • Giant velvet worm, Tasmanipatus baretti (Onychophora) in Tasmania, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Book: Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
    Authors(s):
  • Helmeted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix) in southern Australia: assessing options for establishing a new wild population
    Year: 2004
    Book: Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
    Authors(s):
  • Mammal population viability modeling: an overview
    Year: 2004
    Book: Species Conservation and Management
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Clarifying the effect of toe clipping on frogs with Bayesian statistics
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 780-786
    Publisher: Blackwell Scientific(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Comparing predictions of extinction risk using models and subjective judgement
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Acta Oecologica
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 67-74
    Publisher: Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier(Paris)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Overcoming bias in ground-based surveys of hollow-bearing trees using double sampling
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 190
    Page numbers: 291-300
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Precision and bias of methods for estimating point survey detection probabilities
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ecological Applications
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 703-712
    Publisher: Ecological Society of America(Washington DC)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Protocols for listing threatened species can forecast extinction
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 1101-1108
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The habitat hectares approach to vegetation assessment: an evaluation and suggestions for improvement
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ecological Management & Restoration
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 24-27
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The habitat hectares approach to vegetation assessment: an evaluation and suggestions for improvement.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ecological Management & Restoration
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 24-27
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • How accurate are population models? Lessons from landscape-scale tests in a fragmented system
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 41-47
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Reliability of relative predictions in population viability analysis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 982-989
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The use of Bayesian model averaging to better represent uncertainty in ecological models
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1579-1590
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • A Monte Carlo experiment for species mapping problems
    Year: 2002
    Book: Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):
  • Fire regimes in landscapes: models and realilties
    Year: 2002
    Book: Flammable Australia: the Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Congruence between natural and human forest disturbance: a case study from Australian montane ash forests
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 155
    Page numbers: 319-335
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Species mapping for conservation
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Gap Analysis Bulletin
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 50-57
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The focal-species approach and landscape restoration: a critique
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 338-345
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Population viability analysis
    Year: 2001
    Book: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
    Publisher: Academic Press(San Diego)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):

Journal Articles

  • A landscape-scale test of the predictive ability of a spatially explicit model for population viability analysis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 36-48
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • A simple landscape-scale test of a spatially explicit population model: patch occupancy in fragmented south-eastern Australian forests
    Year: 2001
    Journal: OIKOS
    Volume: 92
    Page numbers: 445-458
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Assessing spatial PVA models of arboreal marsupials using significance tests and Bayesian statistics
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 98
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 191-200
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Expected minimum population size as a measure of threat
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Animal Conservation
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 351-355
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Identifying effects of toe clipping on anuran return rates: the importance of statistical power
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Amphibia-Reptilia
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 275-289
    Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers(Leiden)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Testing the accuracy of population viability analysis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Conservation Biology
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1030-1038
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The spatial distribution of non-native plant invaders in a pine-eucalypt landscape mosaic in south-eastern Australia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Biological Conservation
    Volume: 102
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 77-87
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Theoretical fire interval distributions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 73-77
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Using stochastic dynamic programming to determine optimal fire management for Banksia ornata
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 585-592
    Publisher: Blackwell Scientific(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
top of page