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    Ben Smit

    ORCID: 0000-0003-4160-8242

    Summary

    Ben Smit is a lecturer in animal physiology and evolution in the Department of Zoology at Nelson Mandela University. Ben studies how current and historical environmental factors, as well as an organism's evolutionary history, influence the physiological traits of thermoregulation, and energy- and water balance in vertebrates. To address these questions, and others involving environmental selective pressures, Ben's research integrates physiological, behavioural and ecological factors at an individual, population and community level.

    Anatomy & Physiology Animal Behavior Ecology Zoology

    Past or current institution affiliations

    Rhodes University
    University of Pretoria

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    • Preprints 1
    August 18, 2017 - Version: 1
    Surface water dependency among Kalahari Desert birds
    101 downloads
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    Ben Smit, Stephan Woodborne, Blair O Wolf, Andrew E McKechnie
    ecology
    zoology
    anatomy-and-physiology
    biosphere-interactions
    https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3167v1
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