Cold-Blooded Animals Reduce Their Body Size in Warm Water

Research strongly supports 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 the sensitivity of body size to temperature measured in the lab, and body size ...

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