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ArticleConservation physiology2021

Shuttle-box systems for studying preferred environmental ranges by aquatic animals.

Emil A F Christensen, Lars E J Andersen, Heiðrikur Bergsson, John F Steffensen, Shaun S Killen

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Article in Conservation physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Emil A F ChristensenInstitute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.
Lars E J AndersenMarine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Elsinore, Denmark.
Heiðrikur BergssonMarine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Elsinore, Denmark.
John F SteffensenMarine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Elsinore, Denmark.
Shaun S KillenInstitute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals' selection of environments within a preferred range is key to understanding their habitat selection, tolerance to stressors and responses to environmental change. For aquatic animals, preferred environmental ranges can be studied in so-called shuttle-boxes, where an animal can choose its ambient environment by shuttling between separate choice chambers with differences in an environmental variable. Over time, researchers have refined the shuttle-box technology and applied them in many different research contexts, and we here review the use of shuttle-boxes as a research tool with aquatic animals over the past 50 years. Most studies on the methodology have been published in the latest decade, probably due to an increasing research interest in the effects of environmental change, which underlines the current popularity of the system. The shuttle-box has been applied to a wide range of research topics with regards to preferred ranges of temperature, CO

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