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ArticleBiology letters2025

A heat-sensitive songbird's risk of lethal hyperthermia increases with humidity.

Nazley Liddle, Marc T Freeman, Susan J Cunningham, Shannon R Conradie, Andrew E McKechnie

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Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nazley LiddleSouth African Research Chair in Conservation Physiology, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6904-8174
Marc T FreemanSouth African Research Chair in Conservation Physiology, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5342-7313
Susan J CunninghamFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9934-2585
Shannon R ConradieFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8702-638X
Andrew E McKechnieSouth African Research Chair in Conservation Physiology, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-1524-1021

Funding

DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute of African OrnithologyNational Research Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Frequent and intense heatwaves are causing heat-related avian mass mortality events to become more common, but the role of elevated humidity as a contributing factor remains unclear. Here, we quantified the effect of humidity on risks of lethal hyperthermia for blue waxbills (

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Bird DiseasesHot TemperatureHumidityHyperthermiaSongbirdsAnimalsBody TemperatureBody Temperature RegulationSouth Africaclimate changeevaporative heat dissipationheat tolerance limitheatwavepasserineupper thermal limits

Identifiers

PMID41090459
PMCPMC12522157

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