The costs of keeping cool in a warming world: implications of high temperatures for foraging, thermoregulation and body condition of an arid‐zone bird KL du Plessis, RO Martin, PAR Hockey, SJ Cunningham, AR Ridley Global Change Biology, 2012 | 331 | 2012 |
Temperatures in excess of critical thresholds threaten nestling growth and survival in a rapidly-warming arid savanna: a study of common fiscals SJ Cunningham, RO Martin, CL Hojem, PAR Hockey PLoS One 8 (9), e74613, 2013 | 216 | 2013 |
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 | 160 | 2019 |
Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment AE Bates, RB Primack, CM Duarte, PAN-Environment Working Group Biological Conservation, 109175, 2021 | 158 | 2021 |
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming SJ Cunningham, JL Gardner, RO Martin Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19 (5), 300-307, 2021 | 113 | 2021 |
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 (1), 205-215, 2019 | 110 | 2019 |
Can behaviour buffer the impacts of climate change on an arid-zone bird? SJ Cunningham, RO Martin, PAR Hockey Ostrich 86 (1-2), 119-126, 2015 | 100 | 2015 |
The relative importance of olfaction and remote touch in prey detection by North Island brown kiwis SJ Cunningham, I Castro, MA Potter Animal Behaviour 78 (4), 899-905, 2009 | 97 | 2009 |
A new prey‐detection mechanism for kiwi (Apteryx spp.) suggests convergent evolution between paleognathous and neognathous birds S Cunningham, I Castro, M Alley Journal of Anatomy 211 (4), 493-502, 2007 | 90 | 2007 |
High temperatures are associated with substantial reductions in breeding success and offspring quality in an arid‑zone bird T Van de Ven, AE McKechnie, S Er, SJ Cunningham Oecologia 193 (1), 2020 | 89 | 2020 |
The anatomy of the bill tip of kiwi and associated somatosensory regions of the brain: comparisons with shorebirds SJ Cunningham, JR Corfield, AN Iwaniuk, I Castro, MR Alley, TR Birkhead, ... PLoS one 8 (11), e80036, 2013 | 79 | 2013 |
Electric crows: powerlines, climate change and the emergence of a native invader SJ Cunningham, CF Madden, P Barnard, A Amar Diversity and Distributions 22 (1), 17-29, 2016 | 76 | 2016 |
Behavioural responses to heat in desert birds: implications for predicting vulnerability to climate warming B Smit, G Zietsman, RO Martin, SJ Cunningham, AE McKechnie, ... Climate Change Responses 3 (1), 9, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
Identifying biologically meaningful hot-weather events using threshold temperatures that affect life-history SJ Cunningham, AC Kruger, MP Nxumalo, PAR Hockey PloS one 8 (12), e82492, 2013 | 67 | 2013 |
High temperatures drive offspring mortality in a cooperatively breeding bird AR Bourne, SJ Cunningham, CN Spottiswoode, AR Ridley Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2087, 20201140, 2020 | 62 | 2020 |
Regulation of heat exchange across the hornbill beak: functional similarities with toucans? T Van de Ven, RO Martin, TJF Vink, AE McKechnie, SJ Cunningham PLoS One 11 (5), e0154768, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
Elevated temperatures drive fine-scale patterns of habitat use in a savanna bird community RO Martin, SJ Cunningham, PAR Hockey Ostrich 86 (1-2), 127-135, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
Bill morphology of ibises suggests a remote-tactile sensory system for prey detection SJ Cunningham, MR Alley, I Castro, MA Potter, M Cunningham, MJ Pyne The Auk 127 (2), 308-316, 2010 | 59 | 2010 |
Juggling a “junk-food” diet: responses of an urban bird to fluctuating anthropogenic-food availability M Stofberg, SJ Cunningham, P Sumasgutner, A Amar Urban Ecosystems 22 (6), 1019-1026, 2019 | 58 | 2019 |
Hot droughts compromise interannual survival across all group sizes in a cooperatively breeding bird AR Bourne, SJ Cunningham, CN Spottiswoode, AR Ridley Ecology Letters 23 (12), 1776-1788, 2020 | 57 | 2020 |