Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1565-1572

  Verberk, Wilco C E P ^a   Bilton, David T ^a   Calos, Piero ^a   Spicer, John I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitude; Ecology; Gigantism; Global warming; Macroinvertebrate; Metabolism; Oxygen limitation; Physiology; Respiratory; Salinity; Temperature; Thermal tolerance

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; WATER;

ALTITUDE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; ECTOTHERMY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATION; SATURATION; SIZE STRUCTURE; SOLUBILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; GLOBAL WARMING; INVERTEBRATES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARTIAL PRESSURE; WATER;

EID: 79960759472     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2369.1     Document Type: Article

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