Untangling the roles of microclimate, behaviour and physiological polymorphism in governing vulnerability of intertidal snails to heat stress
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2367
Abstract: Biogeographic distributions are driven by cumulative effects of smaller scale processes. Thus, vulnerability of animals to thermal stress is the result of physiological sensitivities to body temperature (Tb), microclimatic conditions, and behavioural thermoregulation. To understand… read more here.
Keywords: physiological polymorphism; intertidal snails; untangling roles; vulnerability ... See more keywords