Michael Kearney

Michael Kearney
Michael Kearney
Country	Australia
Organizations:	University of Melbourne
Titles:	Professor
Focal areas:
	Biology; Climate Change; Ecology; Evolution; Forecasting; Geographic Information System (GIS); Geometric Framework; Insect Behavior; Invasive Species; Landscape Ecology; Modeling; Monitoring; Nutrition; Phenotypic Plasticity; Physiology; Population Dynamics; Soil Science; Systematics; Taxonomy;
Focal species:
	Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera); Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria);
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/ecophys

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Kearney, M.R., Jasper, M.E., White, V.L., Aitkenhead, I.J., Blacket, M.J., Kong, J.D., Chown, S.L., Hoffmann, A.A., 2022. Parthenogenesis without costs in a grasshopper with hybrid origins. Science 376:1110–1114. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1072
Kearney, M.R., Jusup, M., McGeoch, M.A., Kooijman, S.A.L.M., Chown, S.L., 2021. Where do functional traits come from? The role of theory and models. Functional Ecology 35:1385–1396. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13829
Maeno, K.O., Piou, C., Kearney, M.R., Ely, S.O., Mohamed, S.O., Jaavar, M.E.H., Ebbe, M.A.O.B., 2021. A general model of the thermal constraints on the world’s most destructive locust, Schistocerca gregaria. Ecological Applications 31:e02310. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2310
Kearney, M.R., Gillingham, P.K., Bramer, I., Duffy, J.P., Maclean, I.M.D., 2020. A method for computing hourly, historical, terrain‐corrected microclimate anywhere on earth. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11:38–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13330
Schouten, R., Vesk, P.A., Kearney, M.R., 2020. Integrating dynamic plant growth models and microclimates for species distribution modelling. Ecological Modelling 435:109262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109262
Tatsuta, H., Kearney, M., Zhang, L., Pocco, M.E., 2019. Regional Reports - What’s happening around the world? Metaleptea 39:10–14. https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2372-2517
Kearney, M.R., 2018. Can next-generation soil data products improve soil moisture modelling at the continental scale? An assessment using a new microclimate package for the R programming environment. Journal of Hydrology 12.
Malishev, M., Bull, C.M., Kearney, M.R., 2018. An individual‐based model of ectotherm movement integrating metabolic and microclimatic constraints. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9:472–489. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12909
Kearney, M.R., Porter, W.P., 2017. NicheMapR – an R package for biophysical modelling: the microclimate model. Ecography 40:664–674. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02360
Maino, J.L., Kong, J.D., Hoffmann, A.A., Barton, M.G., Kearney, M.R., 2016. Mechanistic models for predicting insect responses to climate change. Current Opinion in Insect Science 17:81–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2016.07.006
Kearney, M.R., Simpson, S.J., Raubenheimer, D., Kooijman, S.A.L.M., 2013. Balancing heat, water and nutrients under environmental change: a thermodynamic niche framework. Functional Ecology 27:950–966. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12020
Kolbe, J.J., Kearney, M., Shine, R., 2010. Modeling the consequences of thermal trait variation for the cane toad invasion of Australia. Ecological Applications 20:2273–2285. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-1973.1
Kearney, M., Porter, W., 2009. Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species’ ranges. Ecology Letters 12:334–350. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01277.x
Kearney, M., Blacket, M.J., 2008. The evolution of sexual and parthenogenetic Warramaba: a window onto Plio-Pleistocene diversification processes in an arid biome. Molecular Ecology 17:5257–5275. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03991.x