| aspergillus fumigatus infection in the scaly weaver (sporopipes squamifrons). | | 1971 | 4949813 |
| avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern african arid-zone passerines. | many birds can defend body temperature (tb) far below air temperature (ta) during acute heat exposure, but relatively little is known about how avian heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity varies with body mass (mb), phylogeny or ecological factors. we determined maximum rates of evaporative heat dissipation and thermal end points (tb and ta associated with thermoregulatory failure) in three southern african ploceid passerines, the scaly-feathered weaver (sporopipes squamifrons, mb≈10 g ... | 2015 | 26041032 |
| seasonal metabolic acclimatization varies in direction and magnitude among years in two arid-zone passerines. | adaptive plasticity in avian thermal physiology is increasingly apparent, with a well-studied example being metabolic upregulation during cold winters in small birds inhabiting temperate and boreal latitudes. recent studies have revealed greater variation in the direction and magnitude of seasonal metabolic adjustments among subtropical/tropical birds experiencing milder winters compared with higher-latitude counterparts, suggesting that patterns could vary among years within populations. we qua ... | 2020 | 32027231 |
| some physiological mechanisms of the scaly weaver (sporopipes squamifrons) during water deprivation. | | 1971 | 5161392 |