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.

Projects
Disease and faunal declines
Disease and faunal declines Project 1.4
Translocation, reintroduction and conservation fencing for threatened fauna
Translocation, reintroduction and conservation fencing for threatened fauna Project 4.1
Identifying and managing refuges from threats
Identifying and managing refuges from threats Project 4.4
Mapping distributions, threats and opportunities to conserve the greater glider
Mapping distributions, threats and opportunities to conserve the greater glider Project 4.4.8
Publications
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
An estimate of the water budget for the endangered night parrot of Australia under recent and future climates.
Climate Change Responses