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Behavioral response to high temperatures in a desert grassland bird: use of shrubs as thermal refugia

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By Janet Ruth, Eric Smith, William A. Talbot, Krabbe Smith
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Birds inhabiting hot, arid ecosystems contend with trade-offs between heat dissipation and water conservation. As temperatures increase, passerines engage in various behaviors to reduce exposure to heat, solar radiation and insolation, and reradiation of heat from the ground. These responses to rising temperatures may result in subordination of reproductive urgency or nutrient acquisition to the need for thermoregulation.
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