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Maxine C. Whitfield

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2013

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Affiliations

University of Pretoria(Current)

University of New Mexico

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nelson Mandela University

Rhodes University

Maxine C. Whitfield is an author at University of Pretoria specializing in evolutionary biology, natural sciences, and climate change.

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2013–2019

7

Publications

7

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

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling allows for extreme heat tolerance in four southern Hemisphere columbids

Andrew E. McKechnie, Maxine C. Whitfield, Ben Smit et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2016 · 86 citations

The functional significance of facultative hyperthermia varies with body size and phylogeny in birds

Alexander R. Gerson, Andrew E. McKechnie, Ben Smit et al. · Functional Ecology · 2019 · 85 citations · Full text

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Avian thermoregulation in the heat: phylogenetic variation among avian orders in evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance

Ben Smit, Maxine C. Whitfield, William A. Talbot et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2018 · 52 citations · Full text

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: evaporative cooling capacity in an archetypal desert specialist, Burchell's sandgrouse (<i>Pterocles burchelli</i>)

Andrew E. McKechnie, Ben Smit, Maxine C. Whitfield et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2016 · 36 citations · Full text

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