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BSc (Monash): PhD, DIC, Imperial College, LondonMcCallum-Hamish-09

Head, Griffith School of Environment

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Research Expertise

  • Ecology of infectious diseases
  • Conservation Biology
  • Quantitative ecology

Current Teaching

  • Wildlife Management (Gold Coast)
  • Ecology and Conservation of Populations (Nathan) 
  • Conservation Biology (Gold Coast)

Selected Publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lachish S, McCallum H, Mann D, Pukk CE, Jones ME (2010) Evaluation of selective culling of infected individuals to control Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease. Conservation Biology in press.
  • 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.
  • 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, 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.
  • McCallum, H. I., D. A. Roshier, J. P. Tracey, L. Joseph, and R. Heinsohn. 2008. Will Wallace’s Line save Australia from Avian Influenza? Ecology and Society http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art41/
  • Rohr, J. R., T. R. Raffel, J. M. Romansic, H. McCallum, and P. J. Hudson. 2008. Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines. Proceedings of the  National Academy of Science, USA 105:17436-17441.
  • Jones, M. E., A. Cockburn, R. Hamede, C. Hawkins, H. Hesterman, S. Lachish, D. Mann, H. McCallum, and D. Pemberton. 2008. Life history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations. Proceedings of the  National Academy of Science, USA 105:10023-10027.
  • McCallum, H. 2008. Landscape structure, disturbance and disease dynamics. Pages 100-124 in R. S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  • McCallum, H. 2008. Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: lessons for conservation biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23:631-637.
  • McCallum, H. and M. Jones. 2006. To Lose Both Would Look Like Carelessness: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease. PLoS Biology 4:1671-1674.
  • McCallum, H., L. Gerber, and A. Jani. 2005. Does infectious disease influence the efficacy of marine protected areas? A theoretical framework. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:688-698.
  • McCallum, H. and B. A. Hocking. 2005. Reflecting on ethical and legal issues in wildlife disease. Bioethics 19:336-347.
  • McCallum, H. I., A. Kuris, C. D. Harvell, K. D. Lafferty, G. W. Smith, and J. Porter. 2004. Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:585-591.
  • Retallick, R. W. R., H. McCallum, and R. Speare. 2004. Endemic infection of the amphibian chytrid fungus in a frog community post-decline. PLoS Biology 2:e351.
  • McCallum, H. and A. Dobson. 2002. Disease, habitat fragmentation and conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Series B: Biological Sciences 269:2041-2049.
  • McCallum, H., N. D. Barlow, and J. Hone. 2001. How should transmission be modelled? Trends in Ecology and  Evolution 16: 295-300
  • McCallum, H. 2000. Population parameters: estimation for ecological models. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
  • McCallum, H. I. and A. P. Dobson. 1995. Detecting disease and parasite threats to endangered species and ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:190-194.


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