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Effects of salinity as a stressor to aquatic invertebrates

Effects of salinity as a stressor to aquatic invertebrates
Effects of salinity as a stressor to aquatic invertebrates
This chapter provides an overview of the cellular impacts of changes in the osmotic potential of the extracellular environment and how cells and, indeed, aquatic invertebrates regulate these impacts over acute and chronic time scales. Central to this osmotic control through cell volume regulation and cell ionic homeostasis is the requirement for energy, and this underpins many of the negative impacts to organism physiology, biochemistry, growth, and development which are subsequently considered in this chapter. Impacts on organisms from salinity perturbation can be either direct or indirect, and both are considered. Throughout this chapter, laboratory or experimental examples to support basic principles are described, and the challenge associated with developing these ideas within a complex ‘Real World’ of multiple and simultaneously acting stressors is considered.
salinity, aquatic invertebrates, osmotic potential, ionic homeostasis, cell volume regulation, energy
3-24
Oxford University Press
Hauton, Chris
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Solan, Martin
Whiteley, Nia
Hauton, Chris
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Solan, Martin
Whiteley, Nia

Hauton, Chris (2016) Effects of salinity as a stressor to aquatic invertebrates. In, Solan, Martin and Whiteley, Nia (eds.) Stressors in the Marine Environment: Physiological and ecological responses; societal implications. Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press, pp. 3-24. (doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718826.003.0001).

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This chapter provides an overview of the cellular impacts of changes in the osmotic potential of the extracellular environment and how cells and, indeed, aquatic invertebrates regulate these impacts over acute and chronic time scales. Central to this osmotic control through cell volume regulation and cell ionic homeostasis is the requirement for energy, and this underpins many of the negative impacts to organism physiology, biochemistry, growth, and development which are subsequently considered in this chapter. Impacts on organisms from salinity perturbation can be either direct or indirect, and both are considered. Throughout this chapter, laboratory or experimental examples to support basic principles are described, and the challenge associated with developing these ideas within a complex ‘Real World’ of multiple and simultaneously acting stressors is considered.

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Published date: 10 March 2016
Keywords: salinity, aquatic invertebrates, osmotic potential, ionic homeostasis, cell volume regulation, energy
Organisations: Ocean and Earth Science

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Local EPrints ID: 401903
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/401903
PURE UUID: a368758a-47a9-4867-8dc5-1d97bbe98b0d
ORCID for Chris Hauton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2313-4226

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Date deposited: 21 Oct 2016 13:16
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:52

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Author: Chris Hauton ORCID iD
Editor: Martin Solan
Editor: Nia Whiteley

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