| Adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms may alter responses to climate change JG Boyles, F Seebacher, B Smit, AE McKechnie Integrative and Comparative Biology 51 (5), 676-690, 2011 | 284 | 2011 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern African arid-zone passerines MC Whitfield, B Smit, AE McKechnie, BO Wolf The Journal of experimental biology 218 (11), 1705-1714, 2015 | 156 | 2015 |
| The impact of humidity on evaporative cooling in small desert birds exposed to high air temperatures AR Gerson, EK Smith, B Smit, AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87 (6), 782-795, 2014 | 132 | 2014 |
| Avian seasonal metabolic variation in a subtropical desert: basal metabolic rates are lower in winter than in summer B Smit, AE McKechnie Functional Ecology 24 (2), 330-339, 2010 | 116 | 2010 |
| A new comparative metric for estimating heterothermy in endotherms JG Boyles, B Smit, AE McKechnie Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84 (1), 115-123, 2011 | 108 | 2011 |
| Adaptive thermoregulation during summer in two populations of an arid‐zone passerine B Smit, CT Harding, PAR Hockey, AE McKechnie Ecology 94 (5), 1142-1154, 2013 | 101 | 2013 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling allows for extreme heat tolerance in four southern hemisphere columbids AE McKechnie, MC Whitfield, B Smit, AR Gerson, EK Smith, WA Talbot, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 219 (14), 2145-2155, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| The functional significance of facultative hyperthermia varies with body size and phylogeny in birds AR Gerson, AE McKechnie, B Smit, MC Whitfield, EK Smith, WA Talbot, ... Functional Ecology 33 (4), 597-607, 2019 | 81 | 2019 |
| Behavioural responses to heat in desert birds: implications for predicting vulnerability to climate warming B Smit, G Zietsman, RO Martin, SJ Cunningham, AE McKechnie, ... Climate Change Responses 3, 1-14, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
| Torpor in dark times: patterns of heterothermy are associated with the lunar cycle in a nocturnal bird B Smit, JG Boyles, RM Brigham, AE McKechnie Journal of Biological Rhythms 26 (3), 241-248, 2011 | 69 | 2011 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: phylogenetic variation among avian orders in evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance B Smit, MC Whitfield, WA Talbot, AR Gerson, AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Journal of Experimental Biology 221 (6), jeb174870, 2018 | 59 | 2018 |
| Global patterns of seasonal acclimatization in avian resting metabolic rates AE McKechnie, MJ Noakes, B Smit Journal of Ornithology 156 (1), 367-376, 2015 | 58 | 2015 |
| Regularly drinking desert birds have greater evaporative cooling capacity and higher heat tolerance limits than non‐drinking species ZJ Czenze, R Kemp, B Van Jaarsveld, MT Freeman, B Smit, BO Wolf, ... Functional Ecology 34 (8), 1589-1600, 2020 | 52 | 2020 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: evaporative cooling capacity in an archetypal desert specialist, Burchell's sandgrouse (Pterocles burchelli) AE McKechnie, B Smit, MC Whitfield, MJ Noakes, WA Talbot, M Garcia, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 219 (14), 2137-2144, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| Water and energy fluxes during summer in an arid‐zone passerine bird B Smit, AE McKechnie Ibis, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Heat dissipation behaviour of birds in seasonally hot arid‐zones: are there global patterns? NB Pattinson, ML Thompson, M Griego, G Russell, NJ Mitchell, RO Martin, ... Journal of Avian Biology 51 (2), 2020 | 40 | 2020 |
| The role of thermal physiology in recent declines of birds in a biodiversity hotspot R Milne, SJ Cunningham, ATK Lee, B Smit Conservation Physiology 3 (1), cov048, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Does use of the torpor cut-off method to analyze variation in body temperature cause more problems than it solves? JG Boyles, B Smit, AE McKechnie Journal of Thermal Biology 36 (7), 373-375, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Do owls use torpor? Winter thermoregulation in free-ranging pearl-spotted owlets and African scops-owls B Smit, AE McKechnie Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 83 (1), 149-156, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Seasonal behavioral responses of an arid-zone passerine in a hot environment NB Pattinson, B Smit Physiology & behavior 179, 268-275, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
