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Avian thermoregulation in the heat: phylogenetic variation among avian orders in evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance
View ORCID ProfileBen Smit, Maxine C. Whitfield, William A. Talbot, Alexander R. Gerson, Andrew E. McKechnie, Blair O. Wolf
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/211730
Ben Smit
1Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94 Grahamstown 6040, South Africa
Maxine C. Whitfield
2DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa
William A. Talbot
3UNM Biology Department, University of New Mexico, MSC03-2020, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
Alexander R. Gerson
4Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Andrew E. McKechnie
2DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa
5South African Research Chair in Conservation Physiology, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
Blair O. Wolf
3UNM Biology Department, University of New Mexico, MSC03-2020, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
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Posted February 06, 2018.
Avian thermoregulation in the heat: phylogenetic variation among avian orders in evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance
Ben Smit, Maxine C. Whitfield, William A. Talbot, Alexander R. Gerson, Andrew E. McKechnie, Blair O. Wolf
bioRxiv 211730; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/211730
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