An Integrated Mechanistic Model of Species' Responses to Environmental Change: From Individual Responses to Range Shifts and Beyond

NicheMapR – an R package for biophysical modelling: the ectotherm and Dynamic Energy Budget models

MR Kearney, WP Porter

2020-01-01

Mechanistic niche models characterise the fundamental niche of an organism by determining thermodynamic constraints on its heat, w..

Field tests of a general ectotherm niche model show how water can limit lizard activity and distribution

MR Kearney, SL Munns, D Moore, M Malishev, CM Bull

2018-11-01

Mechanistic forecasts of how species will respond to climate change are highly desired but difficult to achieve. Because processes..

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

MR Kearney, JL Maino

2018-06-01

Accurate models of soil moisture are vital for solving core problems in meteorology, hydrology, agriculture and ecology. The capac..

An individual-based model of ectotherm movement integrating metabolic and microclimatic constraints

M Malishev, CM Bull, MR Kearney

2018-03-01

An understanding of the direct links between animals and their environment can offer insights into the drivers and constraints to ..

Microclimate Ecology

Michael Kearney

2018-01-11

NicheMapR - an R package for biophysical modelling: the microclimate model

Michael R Kearney, Warren P Porter

2017-05-01

Microclimatic variables are necessary for a wide range of pure and applied problems in environmental science. In ecology, microcli..

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

Michael R Kearney, Warren P Porter, Stephen A Murphy

2016-12-01

BackgroundEndangered species management must now incorporate the potential effects of climate change, but this is often in the con..

Reptile embryos and climate change: Modelling limits of viability to inform translocation decisions

Nicola J Mitchell, null Nicholas Rodriguez, null Gerald Kuchling, null Sophie G. Arnall, null Michael R. Kearney

2016-12-01

The embryos of many egg-laying species develop under the environmental conditions selected by one or both parents, and these condi..

Unpacking the mechanisms captured by a correlative species distribution model to improve predictions of climate refugia

NJ Briscoe, MR Kearney, CA Taylor, BA Wintle

2016-07-01

Climate refugia are regions that animals can retreat to, persist in and potentially then expand from under changing environmental ..

Ontogenetic and interspecific scaling of consumption in insects

JL Maino, MR Kearney

2015-12-01

The uptake of resources from the environment is a basic feature of all life. Consumption rate has been found to scale with body si..

Morphology and burrowing energetics of semi-fossorial skinks (Liopholis spp.)

NC Wu, LA Alton, CJ Clemente, MR Kearney, CR White

2015-08-01

Burrowing is an important form of locomotion in reptiles, but no study has examined the energetic cost of burrowing for reptiles. ..

Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

JM Sunday, AE Bates, MR Kearney, RK Colwell, NK Dulvy, JT Longino, RB Huey

2014-04-15

often exceed local air temperatures, implying a high degree of thermal safety (an excess of warm or cold thermal tolerance). Howev..

Ontogenetic and interspecific metabolic scaling in insects

JL Maino, MR Kearney

2014-01-01

Design constraints imposed by increasing size cause metabolic rate in animals to increase more slowly than mass. This ubiquitous b..

Reconciling theories for metabolic scaling

JL Maino, MR Kearney, RM Nisbet, SALM Kooijman

2014-01-01

Metabolic theory specifies constraints on the metabolic organisation of individual organisms. These constraints have important imp..

Evaluating and predicting risk to a large reptile (Varanus varius) from feral cat baiting protocols

TS Jessop, MR Kearney, JL Moore, T Lockwood, M Johnston

2013-08-01

Control of introduced predators to mitigate biodiversity impacts is a pressing conservation challenge. Across Australia feral cats..

Determinants of inter-specific variation in basal metabolic rate

CR White, MR Kearney

2013-01-01

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of metabolism of a resting, postabsorptive, non-reproductive, adult bird or mammal, measure..

Testing metabolic theories

MR Kearney, CR White

2012-11-01

Metabolism is the process by which individual organisms acquire energy and materials from their environment and use them for maint..

Biomechanics meets the ecological niche: The importance of temporal data resolution

MR Kearney, A Matzelle, B Helmuth

2012-03-01

The emerging field of mechanistic niche modelling aims to link the functional traits of organisms to their environments to predict..

Metabolic theory, life history and the distribution of a terrestrial ectotherm

M Kearney

2012-02-01

Life histories, population dynamics and geographic range limits are fundamentally constrained by the way organisms acquire and all..