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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0220647 |
Hypoxia causes woodlice (Porcellio scaber) to select lower temperatures and impairs their thermal performance and heat tolerance | |
Antol, Andrzej; Rojek, Wiktoria; Singh, Sanjeev; Piekarski, Damian; Czarnoleski, Marcin | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
卷号 | 14期号:8 |
英文摘要 | Environmental temperatures and oxygen availability are important for the balance between oxygen supply and demand. Terrestrial organisms are generally perceived to be less limited by access to oxygen than their aquatic counterparts. Nevertheless, even terrestrial environments can be deficient in oxygen, especially for organisms occurring in soil, litter, wood, rotten fruit or at high elevations. While isopods are the best adapted to a terrestrial lifestyle among crustaceans, many species, including woodlice, occupy environmental gradients of temperature and oxygen. To investigate whether mismatches between oxygen supply and demand can result in a loss of performance in a terrestrial organism, we studied the effects of atmospheric oxygen concentration on the thermal performance of the common rough woodlouse (Porcellio scaber). We compared the thermal preference, thermal sensitivity of running speed, and tolerance to extreme temperatures of woodlice exposed to one of two oxygen concentrations (21% - normoxia, 7% - hypoxia). Under hypoxia, P. scaber preferred microhabitats with temperatures that were on average 3 degrees C lower than those preferred under normoxia. The running speed tended to reach its maximum at a lower temperature under hypoxia than under normoxia (25.13 degrees C vs 28.87 degrees C, respectively, although p was equal to 0.09), and normoxic woodlice ran approximately 1.5-fold faster than hypoxic woodlice at the point of maximum speed. Heat tolerance was significantly lower under hypoxia (38.9 degrees C) than under normoxia (40.7 degrees C), but there was no difference in cold tolerance (5.81 degrees C under normoxia and 5.44 degrees C under hypoxia). Overall, our results indicate that environmental gradients of temperature and oxygen may shape the physiological performance of terrestrial ectotherms, likely via their effects on the balance between oxygen supply and demand, which may have fitness consequences for these organisms in nature. |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
来源期刊 | PLOS ONE
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/101398 |
作者单位 | Jagiellonian Univ, Inst Environm Sci, Ul Gronostajowa, Krakow, Poland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Antol, Andrzej,Rojek, Wiktoria,Singh, Sanjeev,et al. Hypoxia causes woodlice (Porcellio scaber) to select lower temperatures and impairs their thermal performance and heat tolerance[J],2019,14(8). |
APA | Antol, Andrzej,Rojek, Wiktoria,Singh, Sanjeev,Piekarski, Damian,&Czarnoleski, Marcin.(2019).Hypoxia causes woodlice (Porcellio scaber) to select lower temperatures and impairs their thermal performance and heat tolerance.PLOS ONE,14(8). |
MLA | Antol, Andrzej,et al."Hypoxia causes woodlice (Porcellio scaber) to select lower temperatures and impairs their thermal performance and heat tolerance".PLOS ONE 14.8(2019). |
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