Nitrogen improves plant cooling capacity under increased environmental temperature

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruirui Wang ◽  
Jixing Zeng ◽  
Kehao Chen ◽  
Qihui Ding ◽  
Qirong Shen ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
pp. 155-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Beltran

Environmental temperature has fitness consequences on ectotherm development, ecology and behaviour. Amphibians are especially vulnerable because thermoregulation often trades with appropriate water balance. Although substantial research has evaluated the effect of temperature in amphibian locomotion and physiological limits, there is little information about amphibians living under extreme temperature conditions. Leptodactylus lithonaetes is a frog allegedly specialised to forage and breed on dark granitic outcrops and associated puddles, which reach environmental temperatures well above 40 ˚C. Adults can select thermally favourable microhabitats during the day while tadpoles are constrained to rock puddles and associated temperature fluctuations; we thus established microhabitat temperatures and tested whether the critical thermal maximum (CTmax) of L. lithonaetes is higher in tadpoles compared to adults. In addition, we evaluated the effect of water temperature on locomotor performance of tadpoles. Contrary to our expectations, puddle temperatures were comparable and even lower than those temperatures measured in the microhabitats used by adults in the daytime. Nonetheless, the CTmax was 42.3 ˚C for tadpoles and 39.7 ˚C for adults. Regarding locomotor performance, maximum speed and maximum distance travelled by tadpoles peaked around 34 ˚C, approximately 1 ˚C below the maximum puddle temperatures registered in the puddles. In conclusion, L. lithonaetes tadpoles have a higher CTmax compared to adults, suggesting a longer exposure to extreme temperatures that lead to maintain their physiological performance at high temperatures. We suggest that these conditions are adaptations to face the strong selection forces driven by this granitic habitat.


2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 612-614
Author(s):  
Xiao FANG ◽  
Lin LUO ◽  
Lei ZHANG ◽  
Hai-xia QI ◽  
Xiao-dong LIU ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-229
Author(s):  
Fakhry S Salem ◽  
Amany AM Abd Allah ◽  
Sahar S Abd El-Hamied ◽  
Doaa I A Mostafa

1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 454-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Jiráček ◽  
Josef Horák

The effect has been studied of the inertia of the cooling system on the reliability of control of the temperature of the reaction mixture. The study has been made using a mathematical model of the batch reactor with an exothermic reaction. The temperature has been controlled by a two-level controller opening and closing the flow of the coolant. The aim of the control has been to maintain a constant value of the degree of utilization of the cooling capacity of the reactor. The instantaneous value of the degree of utilization has been assessed from the ratio of times for which the cooling system is idle to the time of operation. The reliability of control has been studied for variable activity of the catalyst.


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