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Tag Archives: Michael McCarthy
Models – what are they good for?
Models are everywhere at the moment! Everyone in Australia will have heard of the Doherty model, which has helped set Australia’s path out of the pandemic. Modelling from the Burnett Institute is helping to steer both New South Wales and … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, COVID, Ecological models
Tagged covid-19, epidemiology, Michael McCarthy, models
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Simple Adaptive Management
This post gives some details of my speed talk at the SCB Oceania conference, which is in room P9 on Thursday 7 July at 11:50 as part of a session on conservation planning and adaptive management. We have submitted this … Continue reading
Posted in CEED, Communication, Ecological models, Probability and Bayesian analysis
Tagged #SCBO2016, adaptive management, Alana Moore, conference, ecology, environmental decisions, Michael McCarthy, mick mccarthy, probability, research, science, Society for Conservation Biology, The University of Melbourne, uncertainty
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While I was sleeping: optimising ecological surveys over space and time
With the recent online publication of a new paper, here’s a blog post about how the research arose – a fun confluence of mathematical and cognitive collaboration across two sides of the world. And some of it was achieved while … Continue reading
Posted in CEED, Detectability, Ecological models, New research, Probability and Bayesian analysis
Tagged Alana Moore, Cindy Hauser, ecological surveys, ecology, environmental decisions, imperfect detection, Michael McCarthy, mick mccarthy, models, optimization, probability, research, uncertainty
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Biodiversity management and unplanned fires
Edit: Missed my seminar? You can listen to a recording with a copy of the slides: http://unimelb.adobeconnect.com/p913xeq1mjx/ I’m doing a seminar today at Creswick on fire and biodiversity (9:30 a.m., Melbourne time). My talk will discuss unplanned fires, how their … Continue reading
Triage does not mean abandoning the most threatened species
Species triage has been in the news lately. The reports might create the impression that we should give up trying to save the most threatened species. Let me be clear: The science underpinning species triage does not say saving the … Continue reading
Posted in CEED, Communication, Ecological models
Tagged bird species, conservation, ecology, endangered species, environmental decisions, extinct species, extinction, Hugh Possingham, Liana Joseph, Michael McCarthy, models, prioritization, probability, species triage, The University of Melbourne, threatened species
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Joint Species Distribution Models
Update: The paper is now available (free) from Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Update 2: In the tutorial on how to use this method, we refer to the file “fit.JSDM.r”. This is the R script on the journal website named, … Continue reading
Posted in CEED, Ecological models, New research, Probability and Bayesian analysis
Tagged Bayesian, Chib and Greenberg, correlation, ecology, Michael McCarthy, mick mccarthy, multivariate, mutlivariate probit, probability, research, species distribution model, species distribution models, The University of Melbourne
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The yellow-bellied sapsucker & I
I work in The University of Melbourne’s School of Botany, yet I study a range of organisms, not just plants. I’m particularly pleased when I get to work on invertebrates, because they are critical to ecosystem function on Earth, yet … Continue reading
Posted in New research
Tagged Acizzia, coextinction, Gary Taylor, insect, invertebrate, mccarthy, Melinda Moir, Michael McCarthy, Peter Vesk
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Anonymity and peer review
The world of peer review is badly broken, at least according to the blogosphere. Anonymity of reviewers could lead to poorer reviews because reviewers remain unaccountable. Consequently, fully open reviews are used at some journals such as F1000Research. In addition … Continue reading
Posted in Communication
Tagged anonymity, double blind, Dr Isis, F1000Research, Michael McCarthy, open peer review, open science, peer review, revenge, vindictive
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Writing concisely about indices of extinction risk
Edit: An updated version of the paper mentioned in this post is available at bioRxiv: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/000760 (and now it is published: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12308) A post on the joys of editing science. For three years I have worked on a paper in … Continue reading
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