Comparative freeze tolerance and physiological adaptations of three species of vertically distributed rocky intertidal gastropods from southeast Alaska

• Published in: Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology Vol. 463; pp. 17 - 21
• Main Authors: Stickle, William B., Lindeberg, Mandy, Rice, Stanley D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.02.2015
• Subjects: air temperature; Alaska; ambient temperature; coasts; cold tolerance; Colligative osmolyte; Free amino acids; Freeze tolerance; Gastropoda; Gastropods; Intertidal zonation freeze events; littoral zone; Littorina; Littorina sitkana; Marine; Nucella lamellosa; Nucella lima; seasonal variation; summer; supercooling; Supercooling point; taurine; tides; winter; INE, USA, Washington, Seattle; INE, USA, Alaska; Alaska; Colligative osmolyte; Gastropods; Free amino acids; Freeze tolerance; Supercooling point; Intertidal zonation freeze events

Tidal emersion temperatures are ameliorated on the coast of the continental United States because of the timing of low spring tides but spring low tides occur during the day in the summer and during the night in the winter in the inside passage north of Seattle. Extreme low air temperatures during t...