Michael Kearney
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| Michael Kearney | |
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| Country | Australia |
| 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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| Twitter: | URL |
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.