Michael Kearney

Developing a database of Australian grasshopper occurrences from historic field survey notebooks spanning 54 years (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Morabidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Tetrigidae)

Md Anwar Hossain, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, Michael R Kearney

Journal article  |  2023  |  AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY

The baseline distribution data for all species of a given group in a region can provide fundamental insights into biogeographic qu..

Global patterns of climate change impacts on desert bird communities.

Liang Ma, Shannon R Conradie, Christopher L Crawford, Alexandra S Gardner, Michael R Kearney, Ilya MD Maclean, Andrew E McKechnie, Chun-Rong Mi, Rebecca A Senior, David S Wilcove

Journal article  |  2023  |  Nat Commun

The world's warm deserts are predicted to experience disproportionately large temperature increases due to climate change, yet the..

Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: The promise of biophysical ecology

Natalie J Briscoe, Shane D Morris, Paul D Mathewson, Lauren B Buckley, Marko Jusup, Ofir Levy, Ilya MD Maclean, Sylvain Pincebourde, Eric A Riddell, Jessica A Roberts, Rafael Schouten, Michael W Sears, Michael Ray Kearney

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future environmental change and to manage thes..

A general framework for jointly modelling thermal and hydric constraints on developing eggs

Michael R Kearney, Urtzi Enriquez-Urzelai

Journal article  |  2022  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Eggs are a vulnerable stage because they are sensitive to thermal and hydric conditions and yet cannot behaviourally avoid stressf..

Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk

Natalie J Briscoe, Hugh McGregor, David Roshier, Andrew Carter, Brendan A Wintle, Michael R Kearney

Journal article  |  2022  |  CONSERVATION LETTERS

Many threatened species depend on climatic microrefugia, but places with harsh climates for predators may also play a refugial rol..

Parthenogenesis without costs in a grasshopper with hybrid origins

Michael R Kearney, Moshe E Jasper, Vanessa L White, Ian J Aitkenhead, Mark J Blacket, Jacinta D Kong, Steven L Chown, Ary A Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2022  |  SCIENCE

The rarity of parthenogenetic species is typically attributed to the reduced genetic variability that accompanies the absence of s..

mcera5: Driving microclimate models with ERA5 global gridded climate data

David H Klinges, James P Duffy, Michael R Kearney, Ilya MD Maclean

Journal article  |  2022  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Microclimate models predict temperature and other meteorological variables at scales relevant to individual organisms. The broad a..

ENM2020: A FREE ONLINE COURSE AND SET OF RESOURCES ON MODELING SPECIES NICHES AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A Townsend Peterson, Matthew E Aiello-Lammens, Giuseppe Amatulli, Robert P Anderson, Marlon E Cobos, Jose Alexandre F Diniz-Filho, Luis E Escobar, Xiao Feng, Janet Franklin, Luiz MR Gadelha, D Georges, M Gueguen, Tomer Gueta, Kate Ingenloff, Scott Jarvie, Laura Jimenez, Dirk N Karger, Jamie M Kass, Michael R Kearney, Rafael Loyola, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS

Too hot for the devil? Did climate change cause the mid-Holocene extinction of the Tasmanian devil Sacrophilus harrisii from mainland Australia?

Shane D Morris, Michael R Kearney, Christopher N Johnson, Barry W Brook

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOGRAPHY

The possible role of climate change in late Quaternary animal extinctions is hotly debated, yet few studies have investigated its ..

A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate

Rodolfo O Anderson, Craig R White, David G Chapple, Michael R Kearney

Journal article  |  2021  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim: Our understanding of species’ responses to climate depends on choosing the scale for the analysis. Processes driving physiolo..