Sunday 22 February 2015

Cold-blooded animals grow bigger on land, but smaller in water

FLORA AND FAUNA
Cold-blooded animals grow bigger on land, but smaller in water
London, UK (SPX) Feb 20, 2015 - The findings strongly support the idea that reduced oxygen availability in water causes aquatic animals to reduce their body size much more with warming than those on land. The new research, which appears in Ecology Letters, gathered together existing global data to gain the best picture yet of how arthropod body sizes change with temperature and latitude, revealing a close match between t ... more


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