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Ben Smit
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146
Publications
2,885
Citation Statements Received
3,781
Citation Statements Given
How they've been cited
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2,665
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163
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Nelson Mandela University
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Avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern African arid-zone passerines
Whitfield
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Smit
2
,
McKechnie
3
et al.
2015
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Adaptive Thermoregulation in Endotherms May Alter Responses to Climate Change
Boyles
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,
Seebacher
2
,
Smit
3
et al.
2011
Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling allows for extreme heat tolerance in four southern Hemisphere columbids
McKechnie
1
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Whitfield
2
,
Smit
3
et al.
2016
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11
133
3
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Adaptive thermoregulation during summer in two populations of an arid‐zone passerine
Smit
1
,
Harding
2
,
Hockey
3
et al.
2013
Ecology
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Behavioural responses to heat in desert birds: implications for predicting vulnerability to climate warming
Smit
1
,
Zietsman
2
,
Martin
3
et al.
2016
Clim Chang Responses
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The Impact of Humidity on Evaporative Cooling in Small Desert Birds Exposed to High Air Temperatures
Gerson
1
,
Smith
2
,
Smit
3
et al.
2014
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
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Avian seasonal metabolic variation in a subtropical desert: basal metabolic rates are lower in winter than in summer
Smit
1
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McKechnie
2
2010
Functional Ecology
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Diversity of l-leucine catabolism in various microorganisms involved in dairy fermentations, and identification of the rate-controlling step in the formation of the potent flavour component 3-methylbutanal
Smit
1
,
Engels
2
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WOUTERS
3
et al.
2004
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
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