Andrew E. McKechnie

Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves

Andrew E. McKechnie, Blair O. Wolf · Biology Letters · 2009 · 601 citations · Full text

Mapping evaporative water loss in desert passerines reveals an expanding threat of lethal dehydration

Thomas P. Albright, Denis Mutiibwa, Alexander R. Gerson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · 230 citations · Full text

Chronic, sublethal effects of high temperatures will cause severe declines in southern African arid-zone birds during the 21st century

Shannon R. Conradie, Stephan Woodborne, Susan J. Cunningham et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 202 citations · Full text

Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rate

Andrew E. McKechnie, Robert P. Freckleton, Walter Jetz · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2006 · 176 citations · Full text

Phenotypic Plasticity, Population Ecology, Molecular Ecology +16

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern African arid-zone passerines

Maxine C. Whitfield, Ben Smit, Andrew E. McKechnie et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2015 · 161 citations · Full text