Birds at risk in warming southern African deserts: inferences from behavioural and physiological thermoregulation
Master Thesis
2011
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University of Cape Town
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The study focused on avian species' responses to high ambient temperature. Ambient temperature is a variable to which birds are particularly sensitive and which climate-change models predict will increase disproportionately rapidly in southern Africa's hot deserts, especially the Kalahari.
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Louw, G. 2011. Birds at risk in warming southern African deserts: inferences from behavioural and physiological thermoregulation. University of Cape Town.