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The Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure on Living Aquatic Organisms I. The Problem and General Behavioral Responses

✍ Scribed by Dr. Robert J. Menzies

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1974
Tongue: English
Weight: 541 KB
Volume: 59
Category: Article
ISSN: 1434-2944
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19740590202

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Behavioral responses of marine and aquatic animals are characterized as R~1~ (a first response of prolonged excitation), T (tetany or paralysis), I (inactivity and relaxation) and death as measured by the LD~50~. R~1~, T, and I are reversible responses and temperature dependent with each response occurring at high pressures as temperature increases. The lethal response is also temperature dependent but the tolerance to pressure increases with decreasing temperature. The responses are examined with reference to the ability of animals to successfully cope with the high pressure and low temperature of the abyssal environment.

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