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List of works by Hamish McCallum

A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery

A report of capture myopathy in the Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii)

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A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

A two-phase model for smoothly joining disparate growth phases in the macropodid Thylogale billardierii

scientific article

Achievement and challenge

scientific article published in 2000

Acquired resistance of black mollies Poecilia latipinna to infection by Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

scientific article published in October 1986

An Australian case study on biosecurity: some legal, constitutional, ethical and policy reflections

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Associations Between Ross River Virus Infection in Humans and Vector-Vertebrate Community Ecology in Brisbane, Australia

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Biting injuries and transmission of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease

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Brave new green world – Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity

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Breaking beta: deconstructing the parasite transmission function

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2017)

Breeding ecology and phenology of two stream breeding myobatrachid frogs (Mixophyes fleayi and M. fasciolatus) in south-east Queensland

scientific article published in January 2010

Comparative landscape genetics reveals differential effects of environment on host and pathogen genetic structure in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) and their transmissible tumor

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Conditions affecting the timing and magnitude of Hendra virus shedding across pteropodid bat populations in Australia.

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Conservation Management of Tasmanian Devils in the Context of an Emerging, Extinction-threatening Disease: Devil Facial Tumor Disease

Conserving adaptive potential: lessons from Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease

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Contemporary Demographic Reconstruction Methods Are Robust to Genome Assembly Quality: A Case Study in Tasmanian Devils

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Context-dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases

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Correlates of Recent Declines of Rodents in Northern and Southern Australia: Habitat Structure Is Critical

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Corrigendum to “The ten Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points” [Biol. Conserv. 144 (2011) 1472–1480]

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Counterintuitive scaling between population abundance and local density: Implications for modelling transmission of infectious diseases in bat populations

article published in 2021

Covariance in parasite burdens: the effect of predisposition to infection

scientific article published on February 1990

Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

Demography of bridled nailtail wallabies translocated to the edge of their former range from captive and wild stock

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Demography, disease and the devil: life-history changes in a disease-affected population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii).

scientific article published on 23 October 2008

Density dependence in an island population of silvereyes

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Detecting disease and parasite threats to endangered species and ecosystems

scientific article published on May 1, 1995

Disease and connectivity

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Disease and the dynamics of extinction

scientific article published on October 19, 2012

Disease swamps molecular signatures of genetic-environmental associations to abiotic factors in Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) populations

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Disease, habitat fragmentation and conservation

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Disease-induced decline of an apex predator drives invasive dominated states and threatens biodiversity

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Distribution and Impacts of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease

Dose-response and transmission: the nexus between reservoir hosts, environment and recipient hosts

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

EXPOSING EXTINCTION RISK ANALYSIS TO PATHOGENS: IS DISEASE JUST ANOTHER FORM OF DENSITY DEPENDENCE?

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Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover.

scientific article published in January 2015

Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Effects of immigration on chaotic population dynamics

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Effects of parasites on larval and juvenile stages of the coral reef fish Pomacentrus moluccensis

Endemic infection of the amphibian chytrid fungus in a frog community post-decline

scientific article

Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change

scholarly article by Luke P. Shoo et al published 2 February 2011 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Environmental drivers of spatiotemporal foraging intensity in fruit bats and implications for Hendra virus ecology.

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Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines

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Evaluation of selective culling of infected individuals to control tasmanian devil facial tumor disease.

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Evidence of Effects of Endemic Chytridiomycosis on Host Survival, Behavior, and Emigration: Reply to Schmidt

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Evolution in a transmissible cancer: a study of the chromosomal changes in devil facial tumor (DFT) as it spreads through the wild Tasmanian devil population.

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Fencing artificial waterpoints failed to influence density and distribution of red kangaroos (Macropus rufus)

Gene expression of Tasmanian devil facial tumors differs among host populations

Growth dynamics of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) in the Lynd River, Queensland

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Habitat Use by Crocodylus johnstoni in the Lynd River, Queensland

scientific article published in 1997

Home range and movements of radio-tracked estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) within a non-tidal waterhole

How should pathogen transmission be modelled?

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How to count kangaroos

scientific article published in June 1999

Immunocontraception for wildlife population control

scientific article published on December 1, 1996

Impact and dynamics of disease in species threatened by the amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

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Impact of cane toads on a community of Australian native frogs, determined by 10 years of automated identification and logging of calling behaviour

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Impact of micropredatory gnathiid isopods on young coral reef fishes

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Individual and temporal variation in pathogen load predicts long-term impacts of an emerging infectious disease

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Individual heterogeneity and senescence in silvereyes on Heron Island

scientific article published in April 2011

Infection dynamics of Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

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Infection of the fittest: devil facial tumour disease has greatest effect on individuals with highest reproductive output.

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Infectious disease and sickness behaviour: tumour progression affects interaction patterns and social network structure in wild Tasmanian devils

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Integral Projection Models for host-parasite systems with an application to amphibian chytrid fungus.

scientific article published on 28 April 2016

Integrating species traits with extrinsic threats: closing the gap between predicting and preventing species declines

scientific article published on 27 October 2010

Interpreting mosquito feeding patterns in Australia through an ecological lens: an analysis of blood meal studies

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Is disease a major causal factor in declines? An Evidence Framework and case study on koala chlamydiosis

Large-effect loci affect survival in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) infected with a transmissible cancer

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations

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Live-trapping of the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii): population-size estimates and effects on individuals

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Lose biodiversity, gain disease.

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Mechanisms underlying host persistence following amphibian disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Modelling Wildlife-Parasite Interactions to Help Plan and Interpret Field Studies

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Modelling the impact of predation on reintroductions of bridled nailtail wallabies

Modelling transmission: mass action and beyond

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Models for managing wildlife disease

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Models of Eucalypt phenology predict bat population flux

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Models predict that culling is not a feasible strategy to prevent extinction of Tasmanian devils from facial tumour disease

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Models to assess the potential of Capillaria hepatica to control population outbreaks of house mice

scientific article published on June 1989

Movements and Home Ranges of Crocodylus johnstoni in the Lynd River, Queensland

Moving Beyond Too Little, Too Late: Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases in Wild Populations Requires International Policy and Partnerships

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Non-invasive monitoring of glucocorticoid physiology within highland and lowland populations of native Australian Great Barred Frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus).

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Null expectations for disease dynamics in shrinking habitat: dilution or amplification?

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Occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis within and between species: A review of influential variables as identified from field studies

scientific article published on 31 August 2021

Ontogenetic Dietary Partitioning by Crocodylus johnstoni during the Dry Season

Optimizing non-invasive sampling of an infectious bat virus

Optimizing noninvasive sampling of a zoonotic bat virus

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Over-wintering tadpoles of Mixophyes fasciolatus act as reservoir host for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

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Overdominant vs. frequency-dependent selection at MHC loci

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Pathogen spillover during land conversion.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Pathways to zoonotic spillover.

scientific article

Persistent infections support maintenance of a coronavirus in a population of Australian bats (Myotis macropus).

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

Phylogeography of the parasitic fly Batrachomyia in the Wet Tropics of north-east Australia, and susceptibility of host frog lineages in a mosaic contact zone

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Physiology and ecology combine to determine host and vector importance for Ross River virus

scientific article published in 2021

Predator regulation of Acanthaster planci

Pulse fishing may be superior to selective fishing

Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread

scientific article published on 27 February 2021

Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils

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Rates of spread of marine pathogens

scientific article published in 2003

Reduced effect of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease at the disease front

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Reflecting on ethical and legal issues in wildlife disease

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Relaxation of risk-sensitive behaviour of prey following disease-induced decline of an apex predator, the Tasmanian devil

scientific article published in July 2015

Response to commentary by Woinarski (Critical-weight-range marsupials in northern Australia are declining: a commentary on Fisheret al. (2014) ‘The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: is history repeating?’)

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Review of the Amphibian Immune Response to Chytridiomycosis, and Future Directions

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

Role of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) in the epidemiology of urban visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil.

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Sampling to elucidate the dynamics of infections in reservoir hosts

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Shifts in macropod home ranges in response to wildlife management interventions

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Simulating devil facial tumour disease outbreaks across empirically derived contact networks

scientific article published in 2012

Sins of omission and sins of commission: St Thomas Aquinas and the devil

scientific article published in January 2010

Six degrees of Apodemus separation

scientific article published in September 2009

Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: Impacts of changing habitats on bat‐virus dynamics

scientific article published in 2021

Spatial variation in gene expression of Tasmanian devil facial tumors despite minimal host transcriptomic response to infection

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Species Traits and Hotspots Associated with Ross River Virus Infection in Nonhuman Vertebrates in South East Queensland

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Spontaneous Tumor Regression in Tasmanian Devils Associated with RASL11A Activation

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Synchronous shedding of multiple bat paramyxoviruses coincides with peak periods of Hendra virus spillover

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Systematic temporal changes in host susceptibility to infection: demographic mechanisms

scientific article published in August 1984

Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: lessons for conservation biology

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The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

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The Devil's Cancer

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

The characteristics of six species of living hollow-bearing trees and their importance for arboreal marsupials in the dry sclerophyll forests of southeast Queensland, Australia

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The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: is history repeating?

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The decline of a large yellow-footed rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) colony following a pulse of resource abundance

scientific article published in 2010

The devil is in the details: Genomics of transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

The genomic basis of tumor regression in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)

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The impact of disease on the survival and population growth rate of the Tasmanian devil.

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The non-human reservoirs of Ross River virus: a systematic review of the evidence.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

The potential of Capillaria hepatica to control mouse plagues

scientific article published on 01 June 1990

The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities

scientific article published in 2004

To lose both would look like carelessness: Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease

scientific article published in October 2006

Tracing the rise of malignant cell lines: Distribution, epidemiology and evolutionary interactions of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Transmission dynamics of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease may lead to disease-induced extinction

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Transmission or Within-Host Dynamics Driving Pulses of Zoonotic Viruses in Reservoir-Host Populations

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Trophic cascades following the disease-induced decline of an apex predator, the Tasmanian devil.

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Using Stochastic Modeling to Predict the Effect of Culling and Colony Dispersal of Bats on Zoonotic Viral Epidemics

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Using decision analysis to support proactive management of emerging infectious wildlife diseases

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What is a vector?

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Whether the weather drives patterns of endemic amphibian chytridiomycosis: a pathogen proliferation approach.

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Wildlife disease ecology in changing landscapes: Mesopredator release and toxoplasmosis.

scientific article published on 05 March 2013