Climatic extremes are becoming increasingly common against a background trend of global
warming. In the oceans, marine heatwaves (MHWs)—discrete periods of anomalously warm …

Many birds and mammals drastically reduce their energy expenditure during times of cold
exposure, food shortage, or drought, by temporarily abandoning euthermia, ie the …

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 …

Dormancy is a bet-hedging strategy used by a wide range of taxa, including
microorganisms. It refers to an organism's ability to enter a reversible state of low metabolic …

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 …

Abstract Fabry, VJ, Seibel, BA, Feely, RA, and Orr, JC 2008. Impacts of ocean acidification
on marine fauna and ecosystem processes.–ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 414–432 …

Ocean acidification is elicited by anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and resulting
oceanic uptake of excess CO 2 and might constitute an abiotic stressor powerful enough to …

All animals face the possibility of limitations in food resources that could ultimately lead to
starvation-induced mortality. The primary goal of this review is to characterize the various …

Endothermic mammals and birds have the ability to maintain a constant high body
temperature (Tb) over a wide range of ambient temperatures (Ta). 1 Because the surface …