Cold hardiness of Collembola at Signy Island, maritime Antarctic

The cold hardiness of two Antarctic species of Collembola, Cryptopygus antarcticus Willem and Parisotoma octooculata (Willem), was studied in field fresh, starved and low temperature acclimated specimens at Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Supercooling points of both species clearly fell i...

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Published in:Oikos
Main Authors: Sømme, Lauritz, Block, William
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Nordic Society Oikos 1982
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Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524500/
https://doi.org/10.2307/3544016