Griffith University

Research Expertise

• Ecology of infectious diseases - Current projects on Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease, Hendra viruses in bats and amphibian chytrid fungus
• Conservation Biology - Current project on apex predators and biodiversity
• Quantitative ecology
  

Current Teaching

• Wildlife Ecology Field Course (Gold Coast)
  
• Ecology and Conservation of Populations (Nathan) 
• Ecology (Gold Coast)
• Climate change adaptation (Nathan and Gold Coast)
  

Selected Publications

Book:

• McCallum, H. 2000 Population parameters: estimation for ecological models. Oxford: Blackwell

Science Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• McCallum, H.  Disease and the dynamics of extinction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B (in press)
• Pearse, A.-M., Swift, K., Hodson, P., Hua, B., McCallum, H., Pyecroft, S., Taylor, R., Eldridge, M.D.B. & Belov, K. (2012) 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. Cancer Genetics, 205, 101-112.
• Hamede, R., Bashford, J., Jones, M. & McCallum, H. (2012) Simulating devil facial tumour disease outbreaks across empirically derived contact networks. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49 447-456
• McCallum, H. & Jones, M. (2012) Infectious cancers in wildlife. In:  New Directions in Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health (eds A.A. Aguirre, R. Ostfeld & P. Daszak), pp. 270-283. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Hamede, R., Lachish, S., Belov, K., Woods, G., Kreiss, A., Pearse, A.-M., Lazenby, B., Jones, M. & McCallum, H. (2012) Reduced effect of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease at the disease front. Conservation Biology, 26, 124-134.
• Beeton, N. & McCallum, H. (2011) Models predict that culling is not a feasible strategy to prevent extinction of Tasmanian devils from facial tumour disease. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 1315-1323.
• Jones, M.E. & McCallum, H. (2011) The Devil's Cancer. Scientific American, 304, 6: 72-77.
• Knape, J., Jonzén, N., Sköld, M., Kikkawa, J. & McCallum, H. (2011) Individual heterogeneity and senescence in Silvereyes on Heron Island. Ecology, 92, 813-820
• Lachish, S., McCallum, H., Mann, D., Pukk, C. & Jones, M. (2010) Evaluation of selective culling of infected individuals to control Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease. Conservation Biology, 24, 841-851.
• Murray, K.A., Retallick, R.W.R., Puschendorf, R., Skerratt, L.F., Rosauer, D., McCallum, H.I., Berger, L., Speare, R. & VanDerWal, J. (2011) Assessing spatial patterns of disease risk to biodiversity: implications for the management of the amphibian pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 163-173.
• Murray, K.A., Rosauer, D., McCallum, H. & Skerratt, L.F. (2011) Integrating species traits with extrinsic threats: closing the gap between predicting and preventing species declines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278, 1515-1523.
• Grutter AS, Cribb TH, McCallum H, Pickering JL, McCormick MI (2010) Effects of parasites on larval and juvenile stages of the coral reef fish Pomacentrus moluccensis. Coral Reefs 29, 31-40.
• Hamede RK, Bashford J, McCallum H, Jones M (2009) 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.  Ecology Letters 12, 1147-1157.
• McCallum H, Jones M, Hawkins C, Hamede R, Lachish S, Sinn DL, Beeton N, Lazenby B (2009) Transmission dynamics of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease may lead to disease- induced extinction. Ecology 90, 3379-3392.
• Murray KA, Skerratt LF, Speare R, McCallum H (2009) The impact and dynamics of disease in species threatened by the amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Conservation Biology 23, 1242-1252
• Lachish S., McCallum H. & Jones M. (2009). Demography, disease and the devil: life-history changes in a disease-affected population of Tasmanian devils Sarcophilus harrisii. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78, 427-436.
• Lachish S., McCallum H. & Jones M. (2009). Demography, disease and the devil: life-history changes in a disease-affected population of Tasmanian devils Sarcophilus harrisii. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78, 427-436.
• McCallum, H. 2009. Law, ethics and wildlife disease: an Australian perspective.in B. A. Hocking, editor. Towards a nexus of law and biology. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK.