Michael Kearney

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Michael Kearney
CountryAustralia
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)
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Biography

Michael Kearney specializes in developing general 'first-principles' models of organisms and their microclimates that predict full life-cycle dynamics of individuals. He's currently applying this system to locusts and other grasshoppers while studying general grasshopper ecology.