Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares
many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading …

Through functional analyses, integrative physiology is able to link molecular biology with
ecology as well as evolutionary biology and is thereby expected to provide access to the …

Species' vulnerability to climate change depends on the most temperature-sensitive life
stages, but for major animal groups such as fish, life cycle bottlenecks are often not clearly …

A cause-and-effect understanding of climate influences on ecosystems requires evaluation
of thermal limits of member species and of their ability to cope with changing temperatures …

Over the past decade, accelerating rates of species extinction have prompted an increasing
number of studies to reduce species diversity experimentally and examine how this alters …

While documentation of climate effects on marine ecosystems has a long history, the
underlying processes have often been elusive. In this paper we review some of the …

A cause and effect understanding of thermal limitation and adaptation at various levels of
biological organization is crucial in the elaboration of how the Antarctic climate has shaped …

Environmental temperature affects physiological functions, representing a barrier for the
range expansions of ectothermic species. To understand the link between thermal …

Ectotherms are exposed to a range of environmental temperatures and may face extremes
beyond their upper thermal limits. Such temperature extremes can stimulate aerobic …

Current trends of global climate change affect marine ectothermal animals not only through
the increase in ambient temperature. Synergistic effects of carbon dioxide and temperature …