Yes...
If you don't have the skills then straight attribute, but skills can affect these.
There are people that actually compete in breath holding (record right now I think is 6:23). There is a lot of training that divers can undertake to learn better ways to hold your breath. for that matter there are martial arts disciplines and types of yoga that can teach breath holding in a non-aquatic envirornment.
Similar things apply to temperature. A polar expert is going to take the aluminum foil from his cooking kit and line the inside of his make shift snow cave. There are also meditation techniques that survival experts are taught to slow their metabolism to extend survival.
