Can Oxygen Set Thermal Limits in an Insect and Drive Gigantism?

Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns

(2011) Wilco C. E. P. Verberk et al.   ECOLOGY

Oxygen- and capacity-limitation of thermal tolerance: a matrix for integrating climate-related stressor effects in marine ecosystems

(2010) H.-O. Portner   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Oxygen limitation and thermal tolerance in two terrestrial arthropod species

(2010) M. M. Stevens et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Atmospheric oxygen level and the evolution of insect body size

(2010) J. F. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animal temperature limits and ecological relevance: effects of size, activity and rates of change

(2009) Lloyd S. Peck et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Single and multigenerational responses of body mass to atmospheric oxygen concentrations inDrosophila melanogaster : evidence for roles of plasticity and evolution

(2009) C. J. KLOK et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Atmospheric oxygen level affects growth trajectory, cardiopulmonary allometry and metabolic rate in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

(2009) T. Owerkowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Life stage-related differences in hardening and acclimation of thermal tolerance traits in the kelp fly, Paractora dreuxi (Diptera, Helcomyzidae)

(2009) Elrike Marais et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Critical oxygen partial pressures and maximal tracheal conductances for Drosophila melanogaster reared for multiple generations in hypoxia or hyperoxia

(2009) C. Jaco Klok et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Oxygen hypothesis of polar gigantism not supported by performance of Antarctic pycnogonids in hypoxia

(2009) H. A. Woods et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Correlated patterns of tracheal compression and convective gas exchange in a carabid beetle

(2008) J. J. Socha et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The controlling factors limiting maximum body size of insects

(2008) RYOKO OKAJIMA   LETHAIA

Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod

(2007) S. J Braddy et al.   Biology Letters