Gasping Fish and Panting Squids
The Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT) presented by Daniel Pauly describes how water-breathing fish and invertebrates meet the challenge of extracting crucially needed oxygen from water, which contains little of it. The challenge is that their gill surface, through which oxygen must penetrate, cannot keep pace with the growth of the bodies that require this oxygen. Additionally, the GOLT explains a wide range of other fish growth and metabolic phenomena, and most importantly explains why fish cannot readily adapt to the increasing water temperatures that climate change brings about, and thus respond by moving poleward and/or to deeper waters. This second edition of the book presents new evidence and resolves various misunderstandings connected with the GOLT.
| Pm Supplier | Ecology Institute/ Inter-Research (C) |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | International Ecology Institute |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9783946729228 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2010-12-31 |
| Pm Author | Pauly,Daniel, Kinne,Otto |
| Pm Longness | 0 |
- Author: Pauly,Daniel, Kinne,Otto
- Page Count: 279
