Prof Michael Kearney

Project Leader
The University of Melbourne

Michael Kearney is a physiological ecologist. His work aims connect what we can measure about an animal’s basic survival skills and capabilities (e.g. temperature tolerances, water loss rates, energetics, microhabitat requirements, nutrition) with what we can measure about their environments and how they change though space and time.

Publications

Predicting heat stress of flying-foxes using a biophysical model

Mapping distributions, threats and opportunities to conserve the greater glider by integrating biophysical and spatially-explicit population models

Using soil moisture and biophysical models to identify habitat-specific species refuges in response to climate change
TSR HUB

Variation in fur properties may explain differences in heat-related mortality among Australian flying-foxes
Australian Journal of Zoology

Forecasting species range dynamics with process‐explicit models: matching methods to applications
Ecology Letters

Persistence through tough times: Fixed and shifting refuges in threatened species conservation - Factsheet
TSR Hub

Persistence through tough times: Fixed and shifting refuges in threatened species conservation - Journal
Biodiversity and Conservation

Mapping distributions, threats and opportunities to conserve the greater glider
TSR Hub

MicroclimOz – A microclimate data set for Australia, with example applications
Austral Ecology

Life in the slow lane? A dynamic energy budget model for the western swamp turtle, Pseudemydura umbrina
Journal of Sea Research

An estimate of the water budget for the endangered night parrot of Australia under recent and future climates.
Climate Change Responses