Designing a Seasonal Acclimation Study Presents Challenges and Opportunities.

ABSTRACT: Organisms living in seasonal environments often adjust physiological capacities and sensitivities in response to (or in anticipation of) environment shifts. Such physiological and morphological adjustments ("acclimation" and related terms) inspire opportunities to explore the mechanistic bases underlying these adjustments, to detect cues inducing adjustments, and to elucidate their ecological and evolutionary consequences. Seasonal adjustments ("seasonal acclimation") can be detected either by measuring physiological capacities and sensitivities of organisms retrieved directly from nature (or outdoor enclosures) in different seasons or less directly by rearing and measuring organisms maintained in the laboratory under conditions that attempt to mimic or track natural ones. But mimicking na

SUBMITTER: Huey RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9175191 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature