Does oxygen limit thermal tolerance in arthropods? A critical review of current evidence

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 192, Issue , 2016, Pages 64-78

  Verberk, Wilco C E P ^a   Overgaard, Johannes ^b   Ern, Rasmus ^b   Bayley, Mark ^b   Wang, Tobias ^b   Boardman, Leigh ^c   Terblanche, John S ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular capacity; Circulation; Climate warming; Crustaceans; Heat tolerance; Hyperoxia; Hypoxia; Insects; OCLTT; Respiration physiology; Thermal biology; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; WATER;

AIR; ARTHROPOD; BREATHING; CIRCULATION; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXIA; INSECT; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; REVIEW; WARMING; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; CRUSTACEA; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARTHROPODS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLIMATE; CRUSTACEA; INSECTS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84949239122     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.10.020     Document Type: Review

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