Physiological diversity, biodiversity patterns and global climate change: testing key hypotheses involving temperature and oxygen

Spicer, John I.; Morley, Simon A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7761-660X; Bozinovic, Francisco. 2019 Physiological diversity, biodiversity patterns and global climate change: testing key hypotheses involving temperature and oxygen. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B), 374 (1778), 20190032. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0032

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Abstract/Summary

Documenting and explaining global patterns of biodiversity in time and space have fascinated and occupied biologists for centuries. Investigation of the importance of these patterns, and their underpinning mechanisms, has gained renewed vigour and importance, perhaps becoming pre-eminent, as we attempt to predict the biological impacts of global climate change. Understanding the physiological features that determine, or constrain, a species' geographical range and how they respond to a rapidly changing environment is critical. While the ecological patterns are crystallizing, explaining the role of physiology has just begun. The papers in this volume are the primary output from a Satellite Meeting of the Society of Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, held in Florence in July 2018. The involvement of two key environmental factors, temperature and oxygen, was explored through the testing of key hypotheses. The aim of the meeting was to improve our knowledge of large-scale geographical differences in physiology, e.g. metabolism, growth, size and subsequently our understanding of the role and vulnerability of those physiologies to global climate warming. While such an aim is of heuristic interest, in the midst of our current biodiversity crisis, it has an urgency that is difficult to overstate.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0032
ISSN:	0962-8436
Date made live:	17 Jun 2019 11:36 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523759

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0032

ISSN:

0962-8436

Date made live:

17 Jun 2019 11:36 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523759