Abstract:The, acquisition and internal transport of respiratory gases and metabolic fuels depend on linked processes, with design and function related to energetic demands and attributes of the environment. Environmental challenges to these processes reflect variation in the density of gases, temperature and the pressures that prevail in the environmental medium. The limits of vertebrate survival and performance are tested in environments of low oxygen such as soil, mud or water in which animals overwinter sometimes at… Show more
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