| Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Biology letters 6 (2), 253-256, 2010 | 653 | 2010 |
| Avian facultative hypothermic responses: a review AE McKechnie, BG Lovegrove The Condor 104 (4), 705-724, 2002 | 330 | 2002 |
| The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 77 (3), 502-521, 2004 | 304 | 2004 |
| Adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms may alter responses to climate change JG Boyles, F Seebacher, B Smit, AE McKechnie Integrative and Comparative Biology 51 (5), 676-690, 2011 | 297 | 2011 |
| Phenotypic flexibility in basal metabolic rate and the changing view of avian physiological diversity: a review AE McKechnie Journal of comparative physiology B 178, 235-247, 2008 | 295 | 2008 |
| 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 | 231 | 2017 |
| Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rate AE McKechnie, RP Freckleton, W Jetz Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1589), 931-937, 2006 | 204 | 2006 |
| Chronic, sublethal effects of high temperatures will cause severe declines in southern African arid-zone birds during the 21st century SR Conradie, SM Woodborne, SJ Cunningham, AE McKechnie Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (28), 14065-14070, 2019 | 177 | 2019 |
| Feeling the heat: Australian landbirds and climate change AE McKechnie, PAR Hockey, BO Wolf Emu-Austral Ornithology 112 (2), i-vii, 2012 | 175 | 2012 |
| Avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern African arid-zone passerines MC Whitfield, B Smit, AE McKechnie, BO Wolf The Journal of experimental biology 218 (11), 1705-1714, 2015 | 163 | 2015 |
| The physiology of heat tolerance in small endotherms AE McKechnie, BO Wolf Physiology 34 (5), 302-313, 2019 | 157 | 2019 |
| Stacking the odds: light pollution may shift the balance in an ancient predator–prey arms race C Minnaar, JG Boyles, IA Minnaar, CL Sole, AE McKechnie Journal of applied ecology 52 (2), 522-531, 2015 | 154 | 2015 |
| 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 | 137 | 2014 |
| Sources and significance of variation in basal, summit and maximal metabolic rates in birds AE Mckechnie, DL Swanson Current Zoology 56 (6), 741-758, 2010 | 136 | 2010 |
| Heterothermy in Afrotropical mammals and birds: a review AE McKechnie, N Mzilikazi Integrative and comparative biology 51 (3), 349-363, 2011 | 130 | 2011 |
| Environment, migratory tendency, phylogeny and basal metabolic rate in birds W Jetz, RP Freckleton, AE McKechnie PLoS One 3 (9), e3261, 2008 | 126 | 2008 |
| The costs of keeping cool: behavioural trade-offs between foraging and thermoregulation are associated with significant mass losses in an arid-zone bird T Van de Ven, AE McKechnie, SJ Cunningham Oecologia 191, 205-215, 2019 | 124 | 2019 |
| Avian seasonal metabolic variation in a subtropical desert: basal metabolic rates are lower in winter than in summer B Smit, AE McKechnie Functional Ecology 24 (2), 330-339, 2010 | 120 | 2010 |
| A global heterothermic continuum in mammals JG Boyles, AB Thompson, AE McKechnie, E Malan, MM Humphries, ... Global ecology and biogeography 22 (9), 1029-1039, 2013 | 119 | 2013 |
| Phenotypic flexibility in the basal metabolic rate of laughing doves: responses to short-term thermal acclimation AE McKechnie, K Chetty, BG Lovegrove Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (1), 97-106, 2007 | 112 | 2007 |