Biological impacts of thermal extremes: mechanisms and costs of functional responses matter

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-84

  Williams, Caroline M ^a   Buckley, Lauren B ^b   Sheldon, Kimberly S ^c   Vickers, Mathew ^d   Pörtner, Hans Otto ^e   Dowd, W Wesley ^f   Gunderson, Alex R ^a,g   Marshall, Katie E ^h   Stillman, Jonathon H ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HEAT; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; INVERTEBRATES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84991738629     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icw013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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