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Overview

Patricia M. Schulte is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, particularly within the realms of physiological and biochemical adaptations, fish ecology and management, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

The main fields of study for their work include environmental science with significant contributions to ecology, nature and landscape conservation, aquatic science, oceanography, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. These diverse subfields reflect a broad engagement with aquatic and environmental biological sciences.

Major topics in their research cover physiological and biochemical adaptations, fish ecology and management studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, aquaculture nutrition and growth, fish biology and ecology studies, genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms, as well as animal behavior and reproduction.

Frequent collaborations include co-authors Madison L. Earhart, Tessa S. Blanchard, Colin J. Brauner, Nicholas Strowbridge, and Chris M. Wood, indicating regular engagement with a core group of researchers over multiple projects.

Publications by Patricia M. Schulte have appeared repeatedly in several journals with notable frequency in:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Conservation Physiology
  • Biological Bulletin
  • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Journal of Comparative Physiology B

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Intraspecific variation in tolerance of warming in fishes," 2020, Journal of Fish Biology
  • "Mitochondria and the thermal limits of ectotherms," 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • "Hypoxia and High Temperature as Interacting Stressors: Will Plasticity Promote Resilience of Fishes in a Changing World?" 2022, Biological Bulletin
  • "Integrative Approaches to Understanding Organismal Responses to Aquatic Deoxygenation," 2022, Biological Bulletin
  • "Ionoregulatory aspects of the hypoxia-induced osmorespiratory compromise in the euryhaline Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus): the effects of salinity," 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology

Best Publications

  • Heat shock protein genes and their functional significance in fish

    N. Basu;A.E. Todgham;P.A. Ackerman;M.R. Bibeau

  • Thermal Performance Curves, Phenotypic Plasticity, and the Time Scales of Temperature Exposure

    Patricia M. Schulte;Timothy M. Healy;Nann A. Fangue

  • The effects of temperature on aerobic metabolism: towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of ectotherms to a changing environment

    Patricia M. Schulte

  • Anatomy of STEM teaching in North American universities

    M. Stains;J. Harshman;M. K. Barker;S. V. Chasteen

  • Intraspecific variation in thermal tolerance and heat shock protein gene expression in common killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus.

    Nann A. Fangue;Myriam Hofmeister;Myriam Hofmeister;Patricia M. Schulte

  • Na+/K+-ATPase alpha-isoform switching in gills of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) during salinity transfer.

    Jeff G. Richards;Jeffrey W. Semple;Jason S. Bystriansky;Patricia M. Schulte

  • Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

  • What is environmental stress? Insights from fish living in a variable environment.

    Patricia M Schulte

  • Changes in gene expression in gills of the euryhaline killifish Fundulus heteroclitus after abrupt salinity transfer

    Graham R. Scott;Jeff G. Richards;Biff Forbush;Paul Isenring

  • Oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: blurring ecology and physiology

    Fredrik Jutfelt;Tommy Norin;Rasmus Ern;Johannes Overgaard

  • Responses to temperature and hypoxia as interacting stressors in fish: implications for adaptation to environmental change.

    T. L. McBryan;K. Anttila;T. M. Healy;P. M. Schulte

  • Do mitochondrial properties explain intraspecific variation in thermal tolerance

    Nann A. Fangue;Nann A. Fangue;Jeffrey G. Richards;Patricia M. Schulte

  • Rapid evolution of cold tolerance in stickleback

    Rowan D. H. Barrett;Antoine Paccard;Timothy M. Healy;Sara Bergek

  • Variation in temperature tolerance among families of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is associated with hypoxia tolerance, ventricle size and myoglobin level

    Katja Anttila;Rashpal S Dhillon;Elizabeth G Boulding;Anthony P Farrell

  • Molecular Evolution of Cytochrome c Oxidase Underlies High-Altitude Adaptation in the Bar-Headed Goose

    Graham R. Scott;Patricia M. Schulte;Stuart Egginton;Angela L.M. Scott

  • Linking genotypes to phenotypes and fitness: how mechanistic biology can inform molecular ecology.

    Anne C. Dalziel;Sean M. Rogers;Patricia M. Schulte

  • Reciprocal expression of gill Na+/K+-ATPase alpha-subunit isoforms alpha1a and alpha1b during seawater acclimation of three salmonid fishes that vary in their salinity tolerance.

    J. S. Bystriansky;J. G. Richards;P. M. Schulte;J. S. Ballantyne

  • Thermal Acclimation Is Not Necessary to Maintain a Wide Thermal Breadth of Aerobic Scope in the Common Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)

    Timothy M. Healy;Patricia M. Schulte

  • Integrating metabolic pathways in post-exercise recovery of white muscle

    P M Schulte;C D Moyes;P W Hochachka

  • Synthesis Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris M. Wood
Chris M. Wood University of British Columbia
Anthony P. Farrell
Anthony P. Farrell University of British Columbia
Nann A. Fangue
Nann A. Fangue University of California, Davis
Dennis A. Powers
Dennis A. Powers Stanford University
George K. Iwama
George K. Iwama Acadia University
Peter W. Hochachka
Peter W. Hochachka University of British Columbia
Christopher D. Moyes
Christopher D. Moyes Queen's University
Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter University of British Columbia
Eric B. Taylor
Eric B. Taylor University of British Columbia
Scott E. LaPatra
Scott E. LaPatra Washington State University

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