Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

Background Advances in drinking water infrastructure and treatment throughout the 20th
and early 21st century dramatically improved water reliability and quality in the United States …

Energy metabolism (encompassing energy assimilation, conversion and utilization) plays a
central role in all life processes and serves as a link between the organismal physiology …

Energy balance is a fundamental requirement of stress adaptation and tolerance. We
explore the links between metabolism, energy balance and stress tolerance using aquatic …

Bivalve molluscs stand out for their ecological success and their key role in the functioning of
aquatic ecosystems, while also constituting a very valuable commercial resource. Both …

Integrating the effects of multiple stressors and predicting their consequences for the
species' survival and distribution is an important problem in ecological physiology. This …

The concept of oxygen-and capacity-dependent thermal tolerance in aquatic ectotherms has
successfully explained climate-induced effects of rising temperatures on species abundance …

Identifying factors that influence how ectothermic animals respond physiologically to
changing temperatures is of high importance given current threats of global climate change …

Climate change effects on marine ecosystems involve various stressors, predominantly
temperature, hypoxia and CO 2, all of which may combine with further anthropogenic …

Coastal areas have been increasingly affected by human activities, marine pollution and
climate change are among the most important pressures affecting these environments …