| Mapping evaporative water loss in desert passerines reveals an expanding threat of lethal dehydration TP Albright, D Mutiibwa, AR Gerson, EK Smith, WA Talbot, JJ O’Neill, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (9), 2283-2288, 2017 | 227 | 2017 |
| Flight at low ambient humidity increases protein catabolism in migratory birds AR Gerson, CG Guglielmo Science 333 (6048), 1434-1436, 2011 | 162 | 2011 |
| Simple, rapid, and non-invasive measurement of fat, lean, and total water masses of live birds using quantitative magnetic resonance CG Guglielmo, LP McGuire, AR Gerson, CL Seewagen Journal of Ornithology 152, 75-85, 2011 | 140 | 2011 |
| The impact of humidity on evaporative cooling in small desert birds exposed to high air temperatures AR Gerson, EK Smith, B Smit, AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87 (6), 782-795, 2014 | 135 | 2014 |
| Higher fat stores contribute to persistence of little brown bat populations with white‐nose syndrome TL Cheng, A Gerson, MS Moore, JD Reichard, J DeSimone, CKR Willis, ... Journal of Animal Ecology 88 (4), 591-600, 2019 | 125 | 2019 |
| Constitutive immune function in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, is decreased immediately after an endurance flight in a wind tunnel S Nebel, U Bauchinger, DM Buehler, LA Langlois, M Boyles, AR Gerson, ... Journal of experimental Biology 215 (2), 272-278, 2012 | 90 | 2012 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling allows for extreme heat tolerance in four southern hemisphere columbids AE McKechnie, MC Whitfield, B Smit, AR Gerson, EK Smith, WA Talbot, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 219 (14), 2145-2155, 2016 | 86 | 2016 |
| The functional significance of facultative hyperthermia varies with body size and phylogeny in birds AR Gerson, AE McKechnie, B Smit, MC Whitfield, EK Smith, WA Talbot, ... Functional Ecology 33 (4), 597-607, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: resting metabolism, evaporative cooling and heat tolerance in Sonoran Desert songbirds EK Smith, JJ O'Neill, AR Gerson, AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (18), 3290-3300, 2017 | 81 | 2017 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: evaporative cooling in five Australian passerines reveals within-order biogeographic variation in heat tolerance AE McKechnie, AR Gerson, TJ McWhorter, EK Smith, WA Talbot, BO Wolf Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (13), 2436-2444, 2017 | 81 | 2017 |
| Thermoregulation in desert birds: scaling and phylogenetic variation in heat tolerance and evaporative cooling AE McKechnie, AR Gerson, BO Wolf Journal of Experimental Biology 224 (Suppl_1), jeb229211, 2021 | 78 | 2021 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: resting metabolism, evaporative cooling and heat tolerance in Sonoran Desert doves and quail EK Smith, J O'Neill, AR Gerson, BO Wolf Journal of Experimental Biology 218 (22), 3636-3646, 2015 | 77 | 2015 |
| Common condition indices are no more effective than body mass for estimating fat stores in insectivorous bats LP McGuire, LA Kelly, DE Baloun, WA Boyle, TL Cheng, J Clerc, ... Journal of Mammalogy 99 (5), 1065-1071, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
| Migration- and exercise-induced changes to flight muscle size in migratory birds and association with IGF1 and myostatin mRNA expression ER Price, U Bauchinger, DM Zajac, DJ Cerasale, JT McFarlan, AR Gerson, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 214 (17), 2823-2831, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: phylogenetic variation among avian orders in evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance B Smit, MC Whitfield, WA Talbot, AR Gerson, AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Journal of Experimental Biology 221 (6), jeb174870, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| Effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on mitochondrial metabolism in mammalian hibernation AR Gerson, JCL Brown, R Thomas, MA Bernards, JF Staples Journal of Experimental Biology 211 (16), 2689-2699, 2008 | 60 | 2008 |
| Mitochondrial metabolism during daily torpor in the dwarf Siberian hamster: role of active regulated changes and passive thermal effects JCL Brown, AR Gerson, JF Staples American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative …, 2007 | 60 | 2007 |
| House sparrows (Passer domesticus) increase protein catabolism in response to water restriction AR Gerson, CG Guglielmo American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative …, 2011 | 56 | 2011 |
| Energetics and metabolite profiles during early flight in American robins (Turdus Migratorius) AR Gerson, CG Guglielmo Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183, 983-991, 2013 | 52 | 2013 |
| Mobilization of mercury from lean tissues during simulated migratory fasting in a model songbird CL Seewagen, DA Cristol, AR Gerson Scientific Reports 6 (1), 25762, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
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