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Baroreception

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Sensory Ecology

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((NSSA,volume 18))

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It is possible to make a fairly clear distinction between the effects of pressure on organisms in the aquatic and in the terrestrial environment. In water, pressure increases with depth roughly at the rate of 0.1 atm/m (Fig. 1) so that in the deep ocean pressures near the sea bed may be as high as 1000 atm. In more shallow areas pressures will be less but the effect of tidal changes, which are often 10 m or more, or waves, which may be several metres high, will impose greater percentage changes in pressure than they will over deep water.

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Blaxter, J.H.S. (1978). Baroreception. In: Ali, M.A. (eds) Sensory Ecology. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3363-0_15

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