Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouseuse asterix (*) to get italics

Charlotte Depeux, Angele Branger, Theo Moulignier, Jérôme Moreau, Jean-Francois Lemaitre, Francois-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, Tiffany Laverre, Hélène Paulhac, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Sophie Beltran-BechPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"

2022

<p>We tested independently the influences of increasing temperature and decreasing moisture on life history and physiological traits in the arthropod <em>Armadillidium vulgare</em>. Both increasing temperature and decreasing moisture led individual body mass and reproductive success to decrease. While the density of immune cells decreased and the β-galactosidase activity increased with increasing temperature and decreasing moisture, which suggests a negative impact of these stressors on individual performance, increased temperature and decreased moisture affected differently the other biomarkers conjuring different underlying mechanisms depending on the stress applied. Our findings demonstrate overall a negative impact of high temperature and low moisture on woodlouse welfare. Changing temperature or moisture had slightly different effects, illustrating the need to test further the respective role of each of these key components of climate change on organisms to predict more reliably the future of our ecosystems.</p>

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Abiotic stresses, life history traits, physiological traits, arthropods, climate change

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Biodiversity, Evolutionary ecology, Experimental ecology, Life history, Physiology, Terrestrial ecology, Zoology

Mark Hassal m.hassall@uea.ac.uk, Erzsébet (Elisabeth) Hornung elisabeth.hornung@gmail.com, Zsolt Tóth toth.zsolt@atk.hu, Edward Ivimey-Cook Edward.Ivimey-Cook@glasgow.ac.uk, Jacob Moorad jacob.moorad@ed.ac.uk

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Aniruddha Belsare