Associate Professor Melodie McGeoch

Associate Professor

BSc (Hons) University of Natal
Ph D University of Pretoria

Telephone: +61-3-9902-0464
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: Melodie.McGeoch@monash.edu
Skype: Melodie.McGeoch1

Melodie McGeoch
Research areas
  • Spatial ecology
  • Development of bioindication systems
  • Invasion Biology
  • Global change and protected areas
  • Insect diversity and conservation
Selected publications
  • McGeoch, M.A., Spear, D., Kleynhans, E.J. & Marais, E. 2012. Uncertainty in invasive alien species listing. Ecological Applications 22, 959-971.
  • Born, C., le Roux, P.C., Spohr, C., McGeoch, M.A., Jansen van Vuuren, B. 2012. Plant dispersal in the sub-Antarctic inferred from anisotropic genetic structure. Molecular Ecology 21, 184-194.
  • Roura-Pascual, N., Hui, C., Ikeda, T., Leday, G., Richardson, D.M., Carpintero, S., Espadaler, X., Gómez, C., Guénard, B., Hartley, S., Krushelnycky, P., Lester, P.J., McGeoch, M.A., Menke, S.B., Pedersen, J.S., Pitt, J.P.W., Reyes, J., Sanders, N.J., Suarez, A.V., Touyama, Y., Ward, D., Ward, P.S. & Worner, S.P. 2011. Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 220-225.
  • Esler, K.J., Prozesky, H., Sharma, G.P. & McGeoch, M.A. 2010. How wide is the "knowing- doing" gap in invasion biology? Biological Invasions 12, 4065-4075.
  • Butchart,S.H.M., Walpole, M., Collen, B., van Strien, A., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Almond, R.E.A., Baillie, J.E.M., Bomhard, B., Brown, C., Bruno, J., Carpenter, K.E., Carr, G.M., Chanson, J., Chenery, A.M., Csirke, J., Davidson, N.C., Dentener, F., Foster, M., Galli, A., Galloway, J.N., Genovesi, P., Gregory, R.D., Hockings, M., Kapos, V., Lamarque, J-F., Leverington, F., Loh, J., McGeoch, M.A., et al. 2010. Global biodiversity: Indicators of recent declines. Science 328 (no. 5982), 1164-1168.
  • Bairstow, K.A., Clarke, K.L., McGeoch, M.A. & Andrew, N.R. 2010. Leaf miner and plant galler species richness on Acacia: relative importance of plant traits and climate. Oecologia 163, 437-448.
  • Veldtman, R., Chown, S.L., McGeoch, M.A. 2010. Using scale-area curves to quantify the distribution, abundance and range expansion potential of an invasive species. Diversity and Distributions 6, 159-169.
  • McGeoch, M.A., Butchart, S.H.M., Spear, D., Marais, E., Kleynhans, E.J., Symes, A. Chanson, J. & Hoffmann, M. 2010. Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses. Diversity & Distributions 16, 95-108.
  • Hui, C., Terblanche, J., Chown, S.L. & McGeoch, M.A. 2010. Parameter landscapes unveil the bias in allometric prediction. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 1, 69-74.
  • Hui, C., McGeoch, M.A. & Veldtman, R. 2010. Measures, perceptions and scaling patterns of aggregated species distributions. Ecography 33, 95-102.
  • Hui, C., McGeoch, M.A., Reyers, B., leRoux, P.C., Greve, M. & Chown, S.L. 2009. Extrapolating population size from species distributions: Evaluating the performance of the occupancy-abundance relationship and the scaling pattern of occupancy. Ecological Applications 19, 2038-2048.
  • Samways, M.J., McGeoch, M.A. & New, T.R. 2009. Insect Conservation: A Handbook of Approaches and Methods. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 432 pp.
  • Warren, M., McGeoch, M.A. & Chown, S.L. 2009. The detection of spatial structure in populations and communities: an empirical case study. Ecoscience 16, 95-110.
  • Le Roux, P.C. & McGeoch, M.A. 2008. Rapid range expansion and community reorganization in response to warming. Global Change Biology 14, 2950-2962.
  • Hui, C. & McGeoch, M.A. 2008. Does the self-similar species distribution model lead to unrealistic predictions? Ecology 81, 2946-2952.
  • Kalwij, J.M., Milton, S.J. & McGeoch, M.A. 2008. Road verges as invasion corridors? A spatial hierarchical test in an arid ecosystem. Landscape Ecology 23, 439-451.
  • Le Roux, P.C. & McGeoch, M.A. 2008. Changes in climate extremes, variability and signature on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Climatic Change 86, 309-329.
  • McGeoch, M.A., Schroeder, M., Ekbom, B. & Larsson, S. 2007. Saproxylic beetle diversity in a managed boreal forest: importance of stand characteristics and forestry conservation measures. Diversity & Distributions 13, 418-429.
  • Hui, C. & McGeoch, M.A. 2007. Capturing the 'droopy tail' in the occupancy-abundance relationship. EcoScience 14, 103-108.
  • Hui, C. & McGeoch, M.A. 2007. A self-similarity model for the occupancy frequency distribution. Theoretical Population Biology 71, 61-70.
  • McGeoch, M.A., Chown, S.L. & Kalwij, J. 2006. A global indicator of biological invasion. Conservation Biology 20, 1635-1646.
  • Botes, A., McGeoch, M.A. & van Rensburg, B.J. 2006. Elephant- and human-induced changes to dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) assemblages in the Maputaland Centre of Endemism. Biological Conservation 130, 573-583.
  • McGeoch, M.A., le Roux, P.C., Hugo, A.E. & Chown, S.L. 2006. Species and community responses to short-term climate manipulation: Microarthropods in the sub-Antarctic. Austral Ecology 31, 719-731.
  • Hui, C., McGeoch, M.A. & Warren, M. 2006. A spatially explicit approach to estimating species occupancy and spatial correlation. Journal of Animal Ecology 75, 140-147.
  • Botes, A., McGeoch, M.A., Robertson, H.G., van Niekerk, A., Davids, H.P. & Chown, S.L. 2006. Ants, altitude and change in the northern Cape Floristic Region. Journal of Biogeography 33, 71-90.
  • Le Roux, P.C., McGeoch, M.A., Nyakatya, M.J. & Chown, S.L. 2005. Effects of a short-term climate change experiment on a sub-Antarctic keystone plant species. Global Change Biology 11, 1628-1639.
  • McGeoch, M.A. & Price, P.W. 2005. Scale-dependent mechanisms in the population dynamics of an insect herbivore. Oecologia 144, 278-288.
  • Veldtman, R. & McGeoch, M.A. 2004. Spatially explicit analyses unveil density dependence. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271, 2439-2444.
  • McGeoch, M.A. & Price, P.W. 2004. Spatial abundance structures in an assemblage of gall-forming sawflies. Journal of Animal Ecology 73, 506-516.
  • Veldtman, R. & McGeoch, M.A. 2003. Gall-forming insect species richness along a non-scleromorphic vegetation rainfall gradient in South Africa: The importance of plant community composition. Austral Ecology 28, 1-13.
  • McGeoch, M.A., van Rensburg, B.J. & Botes, A. 2002. The verification and application of bioindicators: a case study of dung beetles in a savanna ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology 39, 661-672.
  • McGeoch, M.A. & Gaston, K.J. 2002. Occupancy frequency distributions: patterns, artefacts and mechanisms. Biological Reviews 77, 311-331.
  • Van Rensburg, B.J., McGeoch, M.A., Mathews, W., Chown, S.L. & van Jaarsveld, A.S. 2000. Testing generalities in the shape of patch occupancy frequency distributions. Ecology 81, 3163-3177.
  • McGeoch, M.A. & Gaston, K.J. 2000. Edge effects on the prevalence and mortality factors of Phytomyza ilicis (Diptera, Agromyzidae) in a suburban woodland. Ecology Letters 3, 23-29.
  • McGeoch, M.A. 1998. The selection, testing and application of terrestrial insects as bioindicators. Biological Reviews 73, 181-201.

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