Effects of temperature and oxygen availability on water loss and carbon dioxide release in two sympatric saproxylic invertebrates

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 514-520

  Woodman, James D ^a,b   Cooper, Paul D ^a   Haritos, Victoria S ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Desiccation; Dispersal; Hypoxia; Millipede; Onychophoran; Respirometry

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; EVAPORATION; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMIDITY; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; RESPIROMETRY; SYMPATRY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER LOSS;

DIPLOPODA; EUPERIPATOIDES ROWELLI; INVERTEBRATA; ONYCHOPHORA;

EID: 34247279852     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.01.024     Document Type: Article

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