Living in the now: Physiological mechanisms to tolerate a rapidly changing environment

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2009, Pages 127-145

  Hofmann, Gretchen E ^a   Todgham, Anne E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Climate warming; Environmental stress; Global warming; Ocean acidification

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ACIDIFICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; SEA; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMOSTABILITY; WARMING; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CELL FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77951932121     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-021909-135900     Document Type: Review

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