Interaction of thermal tolerance and oxygen availability in the eurythermal gastropods Littorina littorea and Nucella lapillus

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 332, Issue , 2007, Pages 167-170

  Davenport, John ^a   Davenport, Julia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cleft; Littorina; Nucella; Oxygen; Thermal tolerance

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GASTROPOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY; OXIC CONDITIONS; RESPIRATION; SATURATED MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; LITTORINA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; NUCELLA; NUCELLA LAPILLUS;

EID: 34047123070     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps332167     Document Type: Article

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