Ben Smit

PeerJ Author

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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October 22, 2019

The role of ambient temperature and body mass on body temperature, standard metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in southern African anurans of different habitat specialisation

Mohlamatsane Mokhatla, John Measey, Ben Smit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7885 PubMed 31660269

November 21, 2018 - Version: 3

Differences in the use of surface water resources by desert birds are revealed using isotopic tracers

Ben Smit, Stephan Woodborne, Blair O Wolf, Andrew E McKechnie

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3167v3