Increases in humidity will intensify lethal hyperthermia risk for birds occupying humid lowlands

dc.contributor.authorCoulson, Bianca
dc.contributor.authorFreeman, Marc Trevor
dc.contributor.authorConradie, Shannon Rose
dc.contributor.authorMcKechnie, Andrew E.
dc.contributor.emailandrew.mckechnie@up.ac.za
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-30T09:54:34Z
dc.date.available2025-10-30T09:54:34Z
dc.date.issued2025-06
dc.descriptionDATA AVAILABILITY : The data collected in this study are available at https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/d8r9sz6yyz/1
dc.description.abstractPlease read abstract in the article. LAY SUMMARY Many tropical birds will experience hotter and more humid wet-season conditions in future. In an African forest frugivore, we found the maximum tolerable wet-bulb temperature is 31.7°C and risks of lethal hyperthermia will increase substantially by 2100. These findings reveal a pervasive but understudied threat facing birds inhabiting humid lowlands.
dc.description.departmentZoology and Entomology
dc.description.librarianhj2025
dc.description.sdgSDG-15: Life on land
dc.description.sdgSDG-13: Climate action
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is based on research supported by the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
dc.description.urihttps://academic.oup.com/conphys
dc.identifier.citationCoulson, B., Freeman, M.T., Conradie, S.R., McKechnie, A.E. (2025) Increases in humidity will intensify lethal hyperthermia risk for birds occupying humid lowlands. Conservation Physiology 13(1): coaf036; pp. 1-13, doi:10.1093/conphys/coaf036.
dc.identifier.issn2051-1434 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1093/conphys/coaf036
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/105049
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.rights© 2025, © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press and the Society for Experimental Biology. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license.
dc.subjectBody temperature
dc.subjectEvaporative cooling
dc.subjectForest
dc.subjectHeat tolerance limit
dc.subjectTrumpeter hornbill (Bycanistes bucinator)
dc.subjectHumidity
dc.subjectThermoregulation
dc.titleIncreases in humidity will intensify lethal hyperthermia risk for birds occupying humid lowlands
dc.typeArticle

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