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35 years of DEB research

A continent-wide analysis of the shade requirements of red and western grey kangaroos

scientific article published on 05 April 2016

A cost-effective method of assessing thermal habitat quality for endotherms

scientific article published on 15 June 2010

A dynamic energy budget for the whole life-cycle of holometabolous insects

scientific article published in 2015

A general model of the thermal constraints on the world’s most destructive locust, Schistocerca gregaria

scientific article published on 7 April 2021

A guide and tools for selecting and accessing microclimate data for mechanistic niche modeling

scientific article published in 2023

A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate

scientific article published on 28 November 2021

A manipulative test of competing theories for metabolic scaling

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

A method for computing hourly, historical, terrain‐corrected microclimate anywhere on earth

scientific article published on 2 December 2019

A physiological analogy of the niche for projecting the potential distribution of plants

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A radiotelemetric study of movements and thermal biology of insular Chinese pit-vipers (Gloydiusshedaoensis, Viperidae)

scientific article published in 2003

A rapid shift in a classic clinal pattern in Drosophila reflecting climate change.

scientific article

A replicated comparison of breeding-container suitability for the dengue vectorAedes aegyptiin tropical and temperate Australia

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Accidental altruism in insular pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae)

Activity restriction and the mechanistic basis for extinctions under climate warming

scientific article published in October 2013

Advances in Monitoring and Modelling Climate at Ecologically Relevant Scales

scientific article published in 2018

An endangered flightless grasshopper with strong genetic structure maintains population genetic variation despite extensive habitat loss

scientific article published in 2021

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

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

scientific article published in 2017

Antipredator Responses of Free-Ranging Pit Vipers(Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae)

scientific article published in August 2002

Balancing heat, water and nutrients under environmental change: a thermodynamic niche framework

article by Michael Ray Kearney et al published 30 November 2012 in Functional Ecology

Behavioural thermoregulation and the relative roles of convection and radiation in a basking butterfly

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Bergmann meets Scholander: geographical variation in body size and insulation in the koala is related to climate

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

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

scientific article

Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota.

scientific article

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

Choosing Technology: An Entrepreneurial Strategy Approach ⬇️

scientific article published in July 2020

Climate and Fire Scenario Uncertainty Dominate the Evaluation of Options for Conserving the Great Desert Skink

Climate is a strong predictor of near-infrared reflectance but a poor predictor of colour in butterflies

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Climate-related spatial and temporal variation in bill morphology over the past century in Australian parrots

article published in 2015

Co-gradient variation in growth rate and development time of a broadly distributed butterfly

scientific article

Color Change for Thermoregulation versus Camouflage in Free-Ranging Lizards

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Colour change on different body regions provides thermal and signalling advantages in bearded dragon lizards.

scientific article published in June 2016

Combining heat-transfer and energy budget models to predict thermal stress in Mediterranean intertidal mussels

article published in 2011

Combining phylogeography with distribution modeling: multiple Pleistocene range expansions in a parthenogenetic gecko from the Australian arid zone

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2007)

Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy

article

Correlative and mechanistic models of species distribution provide congruent forecasts under climate change

article by Michael Ray Kearney et al published 26 January 2010 in Conservation Letters

Couples that have chemistry: when ecological theories meet

scientific article published in July 2015

DO NOCTURNAL ECTOTHERMS THERMOREGULATE? A STUDY OF THE TEMPERATE GECKOCHRISTINUS MARMORATUS

scientific article published in 2000

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

scientific article

Determinants of inter-specific variation in basal metabolic rate

scientific article published on 23 September 2012

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

scientific article published in 2023

Developmental success, stability, and plasticity in closely related parthenogenetic and sexual lizards (Heteronotia, Gekkonidae).

scientific article

Dynamic Energy Budget Theory: An Efficient and General Theory for Ecology

Dynamics of death by heat

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions

scientific article published on 6 March 2022

Early emergence in a butterfly causally linked to anthropogenic warming

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2010)

Eco-physiological consequences of overwintering underground

scientific article published on 9 June 2020

Ecologists have already started rebuilding community ecology from functional traits

scientific article published on 10 July 2006

Effects of salinity and temperature on the growth and survival of New Zealand shortfin,Anguilla australis, and longfin,A. dieffenbachii, glass eels

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

Excluding access to invasion hubs can contain the spread of an invasive vertebrate ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Experimental analysis of retreat-site selection by thick-tailed geckos Nephrurus milii

scientific article published in 2004

Feeling the pressure at home: Predator activity at the burrow entrance of an endangered arid-zone skink

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

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

article published in 2018

Fine-scale microhabitat selection for dense vegetation in a heathland rodent, Rattus lutreolus: Insights from intraspecific and temporal patterns

scientific article published in 2007

Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Future winters present a complex energetic landscape of decreased costs and reduced risk for a freeze-tolerant amphibian, the Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus)

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Geostatistical interpolation can reliably extend coverage of a very high-resolution model of temperature-dependent sex determination

Grasshopper country before and after: a resurvey of Ken Key's collecting expeditions in New South Wales, Australia, 70 years on

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Habitat, environment and niche: what are we modelling?

scientific article published in 2006

Has contemporary climate change played a role in population declines of the lizard Ctenophorus decresii from semi-arid Australia?

scientific article

Hot rocks and much-too-hot rocks: seasonal patterns of retreat-site selection by a nocturnal ectotherm

article by Michael Ray Kearney published June 2002 in Journal of Thermal Biology

How will snow alter exposure of organisms to cold stress under climate warming?

scientific article published in 2020

Hybridization, glaciation and geographical parthenogenesis

scientific article

Hydroregulation

scientific article published on 6 February 2019

Increased Capacity for Sustained Locomotion at Low Temperature in Parthenogenetic Geckos of Hybrid Origin

scientific article published in 2005

Integrating biophysical models and evolutionary theory to predict climatic impacts on species’ ranges: the dengue mosquitoAedes aegyptiin Australia

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Integrating dynamic plant growth models and microclimates for species distribution modelling

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Integrating mechanistic and correlative niche models to unravel range-limiting processes in a temperate amphibian

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Integrating phylogeography and physiology reveals divergence of thermal traits between central and peripheral lineages of tropical rainforest lizards

scientific article

Is fire a threatening process for Liopholis kintorei, a nationally listed threatened skink?

Life in the slow lane? A dynamic energy budget model for the western swamp turtle, Pseudemydura umbrina

Linking Eco-Energetics and Eco-Hydrology to Select Sites for the Assisted Colonization of Australia's Rarest Reptile

scientific article (publication date: 27 December 2012)

Linking thermal adaptation and life-history theory explains latitudinal patterns of voltinism

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Lost Sex in the Reptiles: Constraints and Correlations

Lower fecundity in parthenogenetic geckos than sexual relatives in the Australian arid zone.

scientific article published on May 2005

MAPPING THE FUNDAMENTAL NICHE: PHYSIOLOGY, CLIMATE, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF A NOCTURNAL LIZARD

scholarly article by Michael Ray Kearney & Warren Porter published November 2004 in Ecology

Mechanisms and consequences of changing body size: reply to Bickford et al. and McCauley and Mabry

scientific article published in 2011

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

scientific article published on 30 December 2022

Mechanistic models for predicting insect responses to climate change

scientific article

Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species' ranges

scientific article

Mechanistic variables can enhance predictive models of endotherm distributions: the American pika under current, past, and future climates

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Metabolic scaling in animals: methods, empirical results, and theoretical explanations

scientific article published on January 2014

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

scientific article published in 2011

Microclim: Global estimates of hourly microclimate based on long-term monthly climate averages

scientific article

MicroclimOz - A microclimate data set for Australia, with example applications

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Microclimate Ecology

scholarly article

Microclimate modelling at macro scales: a test of a general microclimate model integrated with gridded continental-scale soil and weather data

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Microclimate modelling of beach sand temperatures reveals high spatial and temporal variation at sea turtle rookeries

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Modeling behavioral thermoregulation in a climate change sentinel

scientific article

Modeling the consequences of thermal trait variation for the cane toad invasion of Australia

scientific article

Modelling species distributions without using species distributions: the cane toad in Australia under current and future climates

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Modelling the ecological niche from functional traits ⬇️

scientific article published on November 12, 2010

Modelling the joint effects of body size and microclimate on heat budgets and foraging opportunities of ectotherms

scientific article published on 2 December 2020

Models of primary sex ratios at a major flatback turtle rookery show an anomalous masculinising trend

Molecular patterns of introgression in a classic hybrid zone between the Australian tree frogs, Litoria ewingii and L. paraewingi: evidence of a tension zone

scientific article

Morphological and Physiological Correlates of Hybrid Parthenogenesis

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

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

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Multiple working hypotheses for hyperallometric reproduction in fishes under metabolic theory

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

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

article published in 2016

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

scientific article published on 5 November 2019

NicheMapR – an R package for biophysical modelling: the endotherm model

scientific article published in September 2021

No sex please, we’re clonal

scientific article published in 2009

Novel applications of thermocyclers for phenotyping invertebrate thermal responses

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One lump or two? Explaining a major latitudinal transition in reproductive allocation in a viviparous lizard

scientific article published in 2016

Ontogenetic and interspecific metabolic scaling in insects

scientific article

Ontogenetic and interspecific scaling of consumption in insects

scientific article published in 2015

Parthenogenesis without costs in a grasshopper with hybrid origins

scientific article published on 3 June 2022

Persistence through tough times: fixed and shifting refuges in threatened species conservation

Phylogeography of sexual Heteronotia binoei (Gekkonidae) in the Australian arid zone: climatic cycling and repetitive hybridization

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Physiological implications of genomic state in parthenogenetic lizards of reciprocal hybrid origin.

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Predicting climate warming effects on green turtle hatchling viability and dispersal performance

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Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

scientific article (publication date: 19 June 2012)

Predicting patterns of stress and mortality in intertidal invertebrates: applications of biophysical ecology in a changing world

Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions ⬇️

scientific article

Predicting the fate of a living fossil: how will global warming affect sex determination and hatching phenology in tuatara?

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2008)

Prizing open a black box to understand climatic constraints on seabirds

Process, correlation and parameter fitting in species distribution models: a response to Kriticoset al

Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Realized niche shift during a global biological invasion ⬇️

scientific article

Reconciling theories for metabolic scaling

scientific article published on 13 May 2013

Reflection of near-infrared light confers thermal protection in birds

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Reproductive Hyperallometry Does Not Challenge Mechanistic Growth Models

scientific article published on 02 January 2019

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

Response to Lundmark: Polyploidization, hybridization and geographical parthenogenesis

scientific article published in 2006

Seasonal differences in the quality of shortfin glass eel, Anguilla australis, and subsequent effects on growth and survival in captivity

scholarly article

Sensitivity to thermal extremes in Australian Drosophila implies similar impacts of climate change on the distribution of widespread and tropical species

scientific article

Size, shape, and the thermal niche of endotherms

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

Spatio-temporal changes in the structure of an Australian frog hybrid zone: a 40-year perspective

scientific article

Stage-dependent physiological responses in a butterfly cause non-additive effects on phenology

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Stasipatric speciation: resurrecting a system to bury a hypothesis?

scientific article published in August 2009

Structure and fragmentation of growling grass frog metapopulations

scholarly article by Joshua M. Hale et al published 23 November 2012 in Conservation Genetics

Summer egg diapause in a matchstick grasshopper synchronises the life cycle and buffers thermal extremes

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Testing Metabolic Theories ⬇️

scientific article published on October 5, 2012

Testing mechanistic models of growth in insects

scientific article published in November 2015

The Fundamental Niche Concept Connects Individuals to Populations: A Comment on Angilletta et al

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

The art of modelling range-shifting species

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The effect of egg size on hatch time and metabolic rate: theoretical and empirical insights on developing insect embryos

article by James L. Maino et al published 11 July 2016 in Functional Ecology

The evolution of sexual and parthenogenetic Warramaba: a window onto Plio-Pleistocene diversification processes in an arid biome

scientific article published on December 2008

The extinction of dengue through natural vulnerability of its vectors

scientific article

The matchstick grasshopper genus Warramaba (Morabidae: Morabinae): a description of four new species and a photographic guide to the group

scientific article published in 2018

The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals

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The potential for behavioral thermoregulation to buffer "cold-blooded" animals against climate warming

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The roles of acclimation and behavior in buffering climate change impacts along elevational gradients

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

The toad ahead: challenges of modelling the range and spread of an invasive species

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The trade-off between maturation and growth during accelerated development in frogs

scientific article published on 18 May 2012

The universality of the von Bertalanffy growth curve: Comment on: "Physics of metabolic organization" by Marko Jusup et al.

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The “covariation method” for estimating the parameters of the standard Dynamic Energy Budget model I: Philosophy and approach

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The “covariation method” for estimating the parameters of the standard Dynamic Energy Budget model II: Properties and preliminary patterns

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Thermal correlates of foraging-site selection by Chinese pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis, Viperidae)

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Thermal sensitivity of Aedes aegypti from Australia: empirical data and prediction of effects on distribution

scientific article

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

scientific article

Three questions about the eco-physiology of overwintering underground

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

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

scientific article published on 24 December 2021

Too hot to handle? Balancing increased trapability with capture mortality in hot weather pitfall trapping

article by John L. Read & Michael Ray Kearney published 8 August 2016 in Austral Ecology

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

scientific article published in 2022

Too much hot air? Informing ethical trapping in hot, dry environments

Tracheal branching in ants is area-decreasing, violating a central assumption of network transport models

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Tree-hugging koalas demonstrate a novel thermoregulatory mechanism for arboreal mammals

scientific article published in June 2014

Under the weather? -The direct effects of climate warming on a threatened desert lizard are mediated by their activity phase and burrow system.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

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

scientific article

Using Biophysical Models to Improve Survey Efficiency for Cryptic Ectotherms

scientific article published on 13 June 2020

Variation in fur properties may explain differences in heat-related mortality among Australian flying-foxes

scientific article published in 2020

Waves of parthenogenesis in the desert: evidence for the parallel loss of sex in a grasshopper and a gecko from Australia

scientific article

What is the status of metabolic theory one century after Pütter invented the von Bertalanffy growth curve?

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Where do Functional Traits Come From? The role of theory and models

scientific article published in 2019

Where do functional traits come from? The role of theory and models

scientific article published on 2 June 2021

Why Do Geckos Group? An Analysis of ""Social"" Aggregations in Two Species of Australian Lizards

scientific article published in 2001

Why do Juvenile Chinese Pit-Vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis) Select Arboreal Ambush Sites?

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Why is sex so unpopular in the Australian desert?

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mcera5 : Driving microclimate models with ERA5 global gridded climate data

scientific article published on 22 May 2022

microclimUS: hourly estimates of historical microclimates for the United States of America with example applications

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

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