2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2008.05.003
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Thermal biology of African lovebirds and Australian grass parakeets

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“…Air temperature and relative humidity are expressed as absolute change while wind speed, solar radiation and rainfall are expressed as percent change needed to develop the budgerigar heat balance model were relatively few -the most important being its mass, shape, plumage depth, core body temperature range and basal metabolic rate. The first three morphological traits are easily measured, body temperature is highly phylogenetically conserved in birds [37], and metabolic rate scales predictably with body size [51] and body temperature [52]. The role of feathers in the heat transfer of birds is complex, especially with respect to the role of solar radiation [5].…”
Section: Inferring the Ecophysiology Of The Night Parrotmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Air temperature and relative humidity are expressed as absolute change while wind speed, solar radiation and rainfall are expressed as percent change needed to develop the budgerigar heat balance model were relatively few -the most important being its mass, shape, plumage depth, core body temperature range and basal metabolic rate. The first three morphological traits are easily measured, body temperature is highly phylogenetically conserved in birds [37], and metabolic rate scales predictably with body size [51] and body temperature [52]. The role of feathers in the heat transfer of birds is complex, especially with respect to the role of solar radiation [5].…”
Section: Inferring the Ecophysiology Of The Night Parrotmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Parrots (order Psittaciformes) represent a major element in the avifauna of the vast arid interior of Australia, where these mostly diurnal birds cope with maximum summer air temperatures that may reach 47-52°C (Serventy, 1971). There is a long history of ecophysiological studies of metabolism and evaporative water loss in parrots, including a number of Australian species, but many of these studies were focused on thermoregulation at moderate T a within and below the thermoneutral zone (Burton et al, 2008;Dawson, 1965;Macmillen and Baudinette, 1993;Williams et al, 1991;Zungu et al, 2013), or designed to measure these parameters during exercise (Tucker, 1968). There have been fewer studies of metabolism and evaporative water loss in parrots at high T a (Dawson and Fisher, 1982;Greenwald et al, 1967;Weathers and Caccamise, 1975;Weathers and Schoenbaechler, 1976).…”
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confidence: 99%