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How birds dissipate heat before, during and after flight

Askew, Graham (2023) How birds dissipate heat before, during and after flight. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1451

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During flight, birds must dissipate heat to avoid hyperthermia. We used thermal imaging to determine the dissipation of heat from different body regions in lovebirds before, during and after flight. The high power demands of flight, resulted in a 19-fold increase in heat dissipation during, compared to after, flight, with most heat dissipated by convection from the lower surface of the wings. After flight, heat dissipation from the head and legs increased compared to before flight. Understanding the mechanisms through which birds dissipate heat is important in predicting how birds’ behaviour and survival may be impacted by climate change. This is the data set for the study.

Keywords:	infrared thermography, thermal imaging, flight, heat balance, endotherm, thermoregulation, energy
Subjects:	B000 - Subjects allied to medicine > B100 - Anatomy, physiology & pathology > B120 - Physiology C000 - Biological sciences > C100 - Biology C000 - Biological sciences > C300 - Zoology > C350 - Marine zoology D000 - Veterinary sciences, agriculture & related subjects > D300 - Animal science > D320 - Animal health > D322 - Animal physiology H000 - Engineering > H100 - General engineering > H160 - Bioengineering, biomedical engineering & clinical engineering > H166 - Imaging
Divisions:	Faculty of Biological Sciences > School of Biomedical Sciences
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited:	16 Nov 2023 09:04
URI:	http://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/1192
Additional details Additional details Creators: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Askew, Graham https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1010-4439 University Of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ROR Type of data: Dataset Research funders: BBSRC Grant numbers: BB/P020933/1; BB/P020461/1 Publication date: 2023 Resource language: English Research project title: Bird Flight Energetics - from tissues to free-flight Publisher: University of Leeds Contact Email Address: g.n.askew@leeds.ac.uk Last Modified: 16 Nov 2023 23:35

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