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List of works by Melodie McGeoch

A bust but no boom: responses of floodplain bird assemblages during and after prolonged drought

scientific article

A comparative analysis of metabolic rate in six Scarabaeus species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from southern Africa: further caveats when inferring adaptation.

scientific article published in April 2000

A comparison of the intestinal helminth communities of Equidae in Southern Africa

scientific article

A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network ⬇️

article by Martin Enders et al published 25 March 2020 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

A global indicator for biological invasion

scientific article

A kernel integral method to remove biases in estimating trait turnover

scientific article published on 22 February 2024

A multiregional assessment of transnational pathways of introduction

scientific article

A nature-positive future with biological invasions: theory, decision support and research needs

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity

scientific article published in 2021

A self-similarity model for the occupancy frequency distribution

scientific article

A spatially explicit approach to estimating species occupancy and spatial correlation

scientific article published in January 2006

A strategic framework for biodiversity monitoring in South African National Parks

A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions

article

A workflow for standardising and integrating alien species distribution data

scientific article

Abiotic variables dictate the best monitoring times for the endangered Table Mountain stag beetle (Colophon westwoodi Gray 1832, Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

scholarly article by Francois Roets published in May 2012

Acclimation effects on critical and lethal thermal limits of workers of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile

scientific article published on 3 April 2008

Accommodating climate change contingencies in conservation strategy

scientific article

Accommodating the human response for realistic adaptation planning: response to Watson and Segan

scientific article published in 2013

Alien species in South Africa’s national parks

article

Alternative futures for global biological invasions

An evaluation of global conservation effort: constraints and contrasts

scientific article published in 1997

An inventory of natural resources harvested from national parks in South Africa

article

Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity.

scientific article

Assessing the association between pathways of alien plant invaders and their impacts in protected areas

scientific article

Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

scientific article published in 2023

B-Cubed: Leveraging Analysis-Ready Biodiversity Datasets and Cloud Computing for Timely and Actionable Biodiversity Monitoring

Barriers to globally invasive species are weakening across the Antarctic

article

Basal tolerance but not plasticity gives invasive springtails the advantage in an assemblage setting

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Beyond the continuum: a multi-dimensional phase space for neutral-niche community assembly

scientific article published in December 2015

Body size patterns in Drosophila inhabiting a mesocosm: interactive effects of spatial variation in temperature and abundance

scientific article published on 14 June 2006

Building capacity in biodiversity monitoring at the global scale

Changes in climate extremes, variability and signature on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Characterizing common and range expanding species

article

Climate change and elevational diversity capacity: do weedy species take up the slack? ⬇️

scientific article

Cluster validity and uncertainty assessment for self-organizing map pest profile analysis

scientific article published in 2016

Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

scientific article

Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge

scientific article published in 2019

Conservation and monitoring of invertebrates in terrestrial protected areas

article published in 2011

Conservation of heterogeneity among dung beetles in the Maputaland Centre of Endemism, South Africa

article

Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species

scientific article published on 9 July 2022

Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Dataset.

Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable

scientific article published on 3 June 2024

Degree of Establishment Controlled Vocabulary List of Terms ⬇️

provides terms that should be used as values for dwc:degreeOfEstablishment and dwciri:degreeOfEstablishment

Does the self-similar species distribution model lead to unrealistic predictions?

scientific article

Drosophilid assemblages as a bioindicator system of human disturbance in the Brazilian Savanna

article

Drosophilids (Insecta, Diptera) as Tools for Conservation Biology

article published in 2010

Ecology. Essential biodiversity variables

scientific article

Effects of a short-term climate change experiment on a sub-Antarctic keystone plant species

article

Elephant- and human-induced changes to dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) assemblages in the Maputaland Centre of Endemism

scholarly article by Antoinette Botes published in July 2006

Environmental impact classification for alien insects: a review of mechanisms and their biodiversity outcomes

article

Epifaunistic arthropod parasites of the four-striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio, in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

scientific article

Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Establishment Means Controlled Vocabulary List of Terms ⬇️

provides terms that should be used as values for dwc:establishmentMeans and dwciri:establishmentMeans

Evaluating models for estimating introduction rates of alien species from discovery records

scientific article published on 18 May 2024

Evaluating models for predicting microclimates across sparsely vegetated and topographically diverse ecosystems

scientific article published in 2021

Evidence of Competition in a Herbivorous, Gall-Inhabiting Moth (Lepidoptera) Community

scientific article published in 1997

Evolution of body size, range size, and food composition in a predator–prey metapopulation

article

Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets

scientific article published in 2022

Extrapolating population size from the occupancy-abundance relationship and the scaling pattern of occupancy

scientific article published in December 2009

Farm dams facilitate amphibian invasion: Extra-limital range expansion of the painted reed frog in South Africa

article

Fine scale variability in soil frost dynamics surrounding cushions of the dominant vascular plant species (azorella selago) on sub‐antarctic marion island

article

GIRAE: a generalised approach for linking the total impact of invasion to species' range, abundance and per-unit effects

scientific article published in 2022

Gall wasp biocontrol of invasive Acacia longifolia : implications of strong bottom-up effects

scientific article published in 2017

Getting the GIST: Testing an integrative data structure for linking taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation

scientific article published in 2022

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

scientific article

Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses

article

Global indicators of the environmental impacts of invasive alien species and their information adequacy

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

Growth form and population genetic structure of Azorella selago on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Helminths in horses: use of selective treatment for the control of strongyles

scientific article published in September 2004

High-productivity vegetation is important for lessening bird declines during prolonged drought

scientific article published in 2017

How wide is the “knowing-doing” gap in invasion biology?

article by Karen J. Esler et al published 3 July 2010 in Biological Invasions

Human activities, propagule pressure and alien plants in the sub-Antarctic: Tests of generalities and evidence in support of management

article

Human population density explains alien species richness in protected areas

article

Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples

article

Implementing invasive species management in an adaptive management framework

article

Implementing invasive species management in an adaptive management framework

Improving Darwin Core for research and management of alien species

scholarly article

Inter-specific facilitation mediates the outcome of intra-specific interactions across an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Interaction intensity and importance along two stress gradients: adding shape to the stress-gradient hypothesis

scientific article

Introduced and invasive alien species of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Islands

scientific article published in 2023

Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants

scientific article published in 2022

Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets

scientific article published in 2023

Invasive Organisms Information: A proposed TDWG Task Group

scholarly article

Leaf miner and plant galler species richness on Acacia: relative importance of plant traits and climate

scientific article

Life history strategy influences parasite responses to habitat fragmentation

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

Long‐term spatially‐replicated data show no physical cost to a benefactor species in a facilitative plant–plant interaction

scientific article published on 22 December 2022

Mean landscape‐scale incidence of species in discrete habitats is patch size dependent

scientific article published on 26 January 2024

Measure and Reduce the Harm Caused by Biological Invasions

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Measures, perceptions and scaling patterns of aggregated species distributions

article

Measuring continuous compositional change using decline and decay in zeta diversity

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Mechanistic reconciliation of community and invasion ecology ⬇️

scientific article

Modeling species distributions by breaking the assumption of self-similarity

article

Monitoring Trends in Biological Invasion, its Impact and Policy Responses

article

Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination

article by Laetitia M. Navarro et al published December 2017 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Monitoring biological invasion across the broader Antarctic: A baseline and indicator framework

article by Melodie A. McGeoch et al published May 2015 in Global Environmental Change

Monitoring consumptive resource use in South African national parks ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Multi-site generalised dissimilarity modelling: using zeta diversity to differentiate drivers of turnover in rare and widespread species

scientific article published in 2017

Multispecies plant invasion increases function but reduces variability across an understorey metacommunity

scientific article

Navigating ecological novelty towards planetary stewardship: challenges and opportunities in biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

Niche shift and resource supplementation facilitate an amphibian range expansion

scientific article published on 06 October 2018

Occupancy frequency distributions: patterns, artefacts and mechanisms

scientific article

Online appendix 1:An inventory of natural resources harvested from national parks in South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Options for reducing uncertainty in impact classification for alien species

scientific article

Parameter landscapes unveil the bias in allometric prediction

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Parasite-specific variation and the extent of male-biased parasitism; an example with a South African rodent and ectoparasitic arthropods

scientific article published on 16 October 2009

Pathway Controlled Vocabulary List of Terms ⬇️

provides terms that should be used as values for dwc:pathway and dwciri:pathway

Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 August 2009-30 September 2009.

scientific article published in January 2010

Plant dispersal in the sub-Antarctic inferred from anisotropic genetic structure

scientific article

Plasticity of thermal tolerance and metabolism but not water loss in an invasive reed frog

scientific article

Priorities for protected area research

Prioritising species of special concern for monitoring in Table Mountain National Park: The challenge of a species-rich, threatened ecosystem

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Prioritizing species, pathways, and sites to achieve conservation targets for biological invasion

article

Quantifying range structure to inform management in invaded landscapes

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Quantifying the extent of protected-area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement in Australia.

scientific article

Rainforest litter invertebrates decimated by high severity burns during Australia's gigafires

scientific article published on 7 June 2023

Rapid collapse of a sub-Antarctic alpine ecosystem: the role of climate and pathogens

scientific article published in 2015

Rare, common, alien and native species follow different rules in an understory plant community

scientific article published on 22 March 2022

Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader ⬇️

scientific article

Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Resistance and resilience of terrestrial birds in drying climates: do floodplains provide drought refugia?

scientific article published in 2015

Rethinking CSR theory to incorporate microbial metabolic diversity and foraging traits

scientific article published on 18 August 2023

Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns in South Africa's national parks

Road verges as invasion corridors? A spatial hierarchical test in an arid ecosystem

article by Jesse M. Kalwij et al published 14 February 2008 in Landscape Ecology

Saproxylic beetle diversity in a managed boreal forest: importance of stand characteristics and forestry conservation measures

scholarly article by Melodie A. McGeoch et al published 19 March 2007 in Diversity and Distributions

Scale-dependent mechanisms in the population dynamics of an insect herbivore

scientific article published on 11 May 2005

Soil Bacterial Communities Exhibit Strong Biogeographic Patterns at Fine Taxonomic Resolution

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Spatial Patterns of Prisoner’s Dilemma Game in Metapopulations

scholarly article by Cang Hui & M. A. McGeoch published 30 June 2007 in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Spatial scaling and transition in pneumatophore arthropod communities

scientific article published in 2010

Spatial variation and biogeography of sand forest avian assemblages in South Africa

article

Spatial variation in plant interactions across a severity gradient in the sub-Antarctic

scientific article

Spatial variation in structural damage to a keystone plant species in the sub-Antarctic: interactions between Azorella selago and invasive house mice

article

Spatially explicit analyses unveil density dependence

scientific article published in December 2004

Species and community responses to short-term climate manipulation: Microarthropods in the sub-Antarctic

article

TESTING GENERALITIES IN THE SHAPE OF PATCH OCCUPANCY FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS

scientific article published in 2000

Technical advances at the interface between ecology and statistics: improving the biodiversity knowledge generation workflow

scientific article published in 2017

The absence of fire can cause a lag phase: The invasion dynamics ofBanksia ericifolia(Proteaceae)

article

The abundance structure of Azorella selago Hook. f. on sub-Antarctic Marion Island: testing the peak and tail hypothesis

The application of zeta diversity as a continuous measure of compositional change in ecology

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The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity

scientific article published on June 2015

The conservation of abundance in nonthreatened species

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

The detection of spatial structure in populations and communities: An empirical case study

scientific article published in 2009

The effect of cross-boundary management on the trajectory to commonness in biological invasions

scientific article

The effect of network size and sampling completeness in depauperate networks

scientific article published in 2018

The effects of climate change and land-use change on demographic rates and population viability.

scientific article

The impact of data precision on the effectiveness of alien plant control programmes: a case study from a protected area

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The influence of landscape, climate and history on spatial genetic patterns in keystone plants (Azorella) on sub-Antarctic islands

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

The microarthropods of sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island: a quantitative assessment

The power to detect regional declines in common bird populations using continental monitoring data

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

The role and value of conservation agency research.

scientific article published on 4 April 2015

The verification and application of bioindicators: a case study of dung beetles in a savanna ecosystem

scholarly article by Melodie A. McGeoch published in August 2002

Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program

article

Uncertainty in invasive alien species listing

scientific article

Using scale-area curves to quantify the distribution, abundance and range expansion potential of an invasive species

article

Using the essential biodiversity variables framework to measure biodiversity change at national scale

Where do Functional Traits Come From? The role of theory and models

scientific article published in 2019

Where do functional traits come from? The role of theory and models

scientific article published on 2 June 2021

Widespread dieback in a foundation species on a sub‐Antarctic World Heritage Island: fine‐scale patterns and likely drivers

article by Catherine R. Dickson et al published 12 October 2020 in Austral Ecology

Wind and seed: a conceptual model of shape-formation in the cushion plant Azorella Selago

scientific article published on 29 August 2020

Zeta Diversity as a Concept and Metric That Unifies Incidence-Based Biodiversity Patterns

scientific article (publication date: November 2014)

zetadiv: an R package for computing compositional change across multiple sites, assemblages or cases

article

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