Abstract
We tested independently the influences of increasing temperature and decreasing moisture on life history and physiological traits in the arthropod Armadillidium vulgare. Both increasing temperature and decreasing moisture led reproductive success to decrease. While the density of immune cells decreased and the β-galactosidase activity increased with increasing temperature and decreasing moisture, which suggests a negative impact of these stressors on individual performance, increased temperature and decreased moisture affected differently the other biomarkers conjuring different underlying mechanisms depending on the stress applied. Our findings demonstrate overall a negative impact of high temperature and low moisture on woodlouse welfare. Changing temperature or moisture had slightly different effects, illustrating the need to test further the respective role of each of these key components of climate change on organisms to predict more reliably the future of our ecosystems.
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
Footnotes
Conflict of interest disclosure, The authors declare they have no conflict of interest relating to the content of this article.
I just add the PCIEcology badge on the 1st page of your article pdf and a hyperlink on the badge pointing to https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100506. A little change also in the abstract to correct a mistake.