Understanding the heat tolerances of small mammals and birds has taken on new urgency
with the advent of climate change. Here, we review heat tolerance limits, pathways of …

Evaporative heat dissipation is a key aspect of avian thermoregulation in hot environments.
We quantified variation in avian thermoregulatory performance at high air temperatures (T a) …

Birds inhabiting hot, arid regions are among the terrestrial organisms most vulnerable to
climate change. The potential for increasingly frequent and intense heat waves to cause …

Climate change is affecting animal populations around the world and one relatively
unexplored aspect of species vulnerability is whether and to what extent responses to …

Facultative hyperthermia, the elevation of body temperature above normothermic levels,
during heat exposure, importantly affects the water economy and heat balance of terrestrial …

Future climatic scenarios forecast increases in average temperatures as well as in the
frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme events, such as heatwaves. Whereas …

We examined thermoregulatory performance in seven Sonoran Desert passerine bird
species varying in body mass from 10 to 70 g–lesser goldfinch, house finch, pyrrhuloxia …

Evaporative heat loss pathways vary among avian orders, but the extent to which
evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance vary within orders remains unclear. We …

Global climate change is expected to have strong effects on the world's flora and fauna. As a
result, there has been a recent increase in the number of meta-analyses and mechanistic …

The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate, with well-documented indirect
effects on wildlife. However, few studies have examined the direct effects of warming …