Open Access Commentary

A case for combined environmental stressor studies

Michael Tipton

Author Affiliations

Extreme Environments Laboratory, Department of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, Spinnaker Building, Cambridge Road, Portsmouth PO1 2ER, UK

Extreme Physiology & Medicine 2012, 1:7 doi:10.1186/2046-7648-1-7

Published: 9 October 2012

Abstract

This commentary considers the reasons for the relative dearth of studies examining combinations of environmental stressors and makes a case for more of these studies.

Keywords:
Environmental stress; Cold; Hypoxia; Heat; Microgravity; Integrative physiology