Chronic, sublethal effects of high temperatures will cause severe declines in southern African arid-zone birds during the 21st century

Extreme operative temperatures in exposed microsites used by roosting rufous-cheeked nightjar (Caprimulgus rufigena): implications for water balance under current and future climate conditions

(2018) Ryan Sean O'Connor et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Can providing shade at water points help Kalahari birds beat the heat?

(2018) Salamatu Abdu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: evaporative cooling capacity and thermal tolerance in two Australian parrots

(2018) Todd J. McWhorter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: phylogenetic variation among avian orders in evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance

(2018) Ben Smit et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Interspecific variation in avian thermoregulatory patterns and heat dissipation behaviours in a subtropical desert

(2018) Michelle L. Thompson et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Behavioural thermoregulation and climatic range restriction in the globally threatened Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni

(2018) Andrew J. Bladon et al.   IBIS

Collapse of a desert bird community over the past century driven by climate change

(2018) Kelly J. Iknayan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: resting metabolism, evaporative cooling and heat tolerance in Sonoran Desert songbirds

(2017) Eric Krabbe Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: evaporative cooling capacity of arid-zone Caprimulgiformes from two continents

(2017) William A. Talbot et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Greater future global warming inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget

(2017) Patrick T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Seasonal behavioral responses of an arid-zone passerine in a hot environment

(2017) Nicholas B. Pattinson et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Mapping evaporative water loss in desert passerines reveals an expanding threat of lethal dehydration

(2017) Thomas P. Albright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of temperature on offspring provisioning in a cooperative breeder

(2016) Elizabeth M. Wiley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Constraints on Climate Sensitivity from Space-Based Measurements of Low-Cloud Reflection

(2016) Florent Brient et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling in two southern African nightjars

(2016) Ryan S. O’Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling allows for extreme heat tolerance in four southern hemisphere columbids

(2016) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Seasonal and geographical variation in heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in a passerine bird

(2016) Matthew J. Noakes et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: evaporative cooling capacity in an archetypal desert specialist, Burchell's sandgrouse (Pterocles burchelli)

(2016) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Prenatal acoustic communication programs offspring for high posthatching temperatures in a songbird

(2016) M. M. Mariette et al.   SCIENCE

Differential heat tolerance in nestlings suggests sympatric species may face different climate change risks

(2015) I Catry et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Individual and demographic consequences of reduced body condition following repeated exposure to high temperatures

(2015) Janet L. Gardner et al.   ECOLOGY

Projections of rapidly rising surface temperatures over Africa under low mitigation

(2015) Francois Engelbrecht et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Long-term cloud change imprinted in seasonal cloud variation: More evidence of high climate sensitivity

(2015) Chengxing Zhai et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns in South Africa's national parks

(2015) Nicola J. van Wilgen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern African arid-zone passerines

(2015) M. C. Whitfield et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: resting metabolism, evaporative cooling and heat tolerance in Sonoran Desert doves and quail

(2015) E. K. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Can behaviour buffer the impacts of climate change on an arid-zone bird?

(2015) Susan J Cunningham et al.   OSTRICH

The impact of high temperatures on foraging behaviour and body condition in the Western Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen dorsalis

(2015) Emily K Edwards et al.   OSTRICH

Thermal patterns constrain diurnal behavior of a ground-dwelling bird

(2015) J. Matthew Carroll et al.   Ecosphere

Effects of temperature and nest heat exposure on nestling growth, dehydration and survival in a Mediterranean hole-nesting passerine

(2013) Concepción Salaberria et al.   IBIS

Temperatures in Excess of Critical Thresholds Threaten Nestling Growth and Survival in A Rapidly-Warming Arid Savanna: A Study of Common Fiscals

(2013) Susan J. Cunningham et al.   PLoS One

Identifying Biologically Meaningful Hot-Weather Events Using Threshold Temperatures That Affect Life-History

(2013) Susan J. Cunningham et al.   PLoS One

Feeling the heat: Australian landbirds and climate change

(2012) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   EMU

The costs of keeping cool in a warming world: implications of high temperatures for foraging, thermoregulation and body condition of an arid-zone bird

(2012) Katherine L. du Plessis et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves

(2009) A. E. McKechnie et al.   Biology Letters

NEST SITE SELECTION IN A HOT DESERT: TRADE-OFF BETWEEN MICROCLIMATE AND PREDATION RISK?

(2008) B. IRENE TIELEMAN et al.   CONDOR

Chick provisioning by the Yellow-nosed Albatross Diomedea chlororhynchos: response of foraging effort to experimentally increased costs and demands

(2008) HENRI WEIMERSKIRCH et al.   IBIS

Rainfall as a breeding stimulus and clutch size determinant in South African arid-zone birds

(2008) Penn Lloyd   IBIS

Heat stress in a high-latitude seabird: effects of temperature and food supply on bathing and nest attendance of great skuas Catharacta skua

(2008) Stephen A. Oswald et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Probabilistic predictions of climate change for Australia and southern Africa using the reliability ensemble average of IPCC CMIP3 model simulations

(2008) A. F. Moise et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Phenotypic Flexibility in Cutaneous Water Loss and Lipids of the Stratum Corneum in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) following Acclimation to High and Low Humidity

(2008) Agustí Muñoz‐Garcia et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Climate change and the effects of temperature extremes on Australian flying-foxes

(2007) J. A Welbergen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES