Elevated Salinity Rapidly Confers Cross-Tolerance to High Temperature in a Splash-Pool Copepod.

ABSTRACT: Accurate forecasting of organismal responses to climate change requires a deep mechanistic understanding of how physiology responds to present-day variation in the physical environment. However, the road to physiological enlightenment is fraught with complications: predictable environmental fluctuations of any single factor are often accompanied by substantial stochastic variation and rare extreme events, and several factors may interact to affect physiology. Lacking sufficient knowledge of temporal patterns of co-variation in multiple environmental stressors, biologists struggle to design and implement realistic and relevant laboratory experiments. In this study, we directly address these issues, using measurements of the thermal tolerance of freshly collected animals and long-term field

SUBMITTER: Denny MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9394168 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature