Abstract
Environmentally driven variation in exposure of organisms to differing oxidative stress threats is of great interest to evolutionary ecologists and physiologists. Understanding the physiological capacities of organisms to environmental stressors is key to predicting their response to changing environments. This chapter provides a synthesis of how organisms manage to withstand oxidative stress induced by a wide variety of environmental abiotic factors, such as temperature, partial pressure of oxygen or ultraviolet radiation. The chapter also discusses how hormesis primes organisms to tolerate variable environmental conditions.
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Costantini, D. (2014). Variation in Oxidative Stress Threats and Hormesis Across Environments. In: Oxidative Stress and Hormesis in Evolutionary Ecology and Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54663-1_3
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