ArticleEcology and evolution2021
The thermoregulatory role of relative bill and leg surface areas in a Mediterranean population of Great tit (
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- Impacts of early-life thermal challenge on development, survival, and physiology in wild great tits.Biology open · 2026Article
- Nonspecific constitutive immunity is negatively associated with basal metabolic rate at early phase of territorial competition in males of great tit.Current zoology · 2026Article
- Limited evidence that body size shrinking and shape-shifting alleviate thermoregulatory pressures in a warmer world.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Selective effect of winter weather on a songbird's morphology depends on individual sex and winter condition.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Birds are better at regulating heat loss through their legs than their bills: implications for body shape evolution in response to climate.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Heat tolerance limits of Mediterranean songbirds and their current and future vulnerabilities to temperature extremes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- The thermoregulatory role of relative bill and leg surface areas in a Mediterranean population of Great tit (Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is growing evidence on the role of legs and bill as 'thermal windows' in birds coping with heat stress. However, there is a lack of empirical work examining the relationship between the relative bill and/or leg surface areas and key thermoregulatory traits such as the limits of the thermoneutral zone (TNZ) or the cooling efficiency at high temperatures. Here, we explored this relationship in a Mediterranean population of Great tit (
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