The intraspecific scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes depends on lifestyle and temperature

Killen, Shaun S.; Atkinson, David; Glazier, Douglas S.

doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01415.x

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“…Several studies, however, offer alternative predictions [33 -36]. Glazier [37] and Killen et al [38] suggest that metabolic scalings not only are influenced by temperature and body mass, but that these scalings can be affected by the activity level and ecology of organisms. Glazier [37] has suggested that depending on the activity level of an animal, the scaling exponent can vary from 0.67 to 1; therefore, as metabolic (activity) level increases, the scaling exponent decreases from 1 to 0.67 and then starts to return to 1.…”

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Idiosyncratic species effects confound size-based predictions of responses to climate change

Twomey

Brodte

Jacob³

et al. 2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Understanding and predicting the consequences of warming for complex ecosystems and indeed individual species remains a major ecological challenge. Here, we investigated the effect of increased seawater temperatures on the metabolic and consumption rates of five distinct marine species. The experimental species reflected different trophic positions within a typical benthic East Atlantic food web, and included a herbivorous gastropod, a scavenging decapod, a predatory echinoderm, a decapod and a benthic-feeding fish. We examined the metabolism -body mass and consumption -body mass scaling for each species, and assessed changes in their consumption efficiencies. Our results indicate that body mass and temperature effects on metabolism were inconsistent across species and that some species were unable to meet metabolic demand at higher temperatures, thus highlighting the vulnerability of individual species to warming. While body size explains a large proportion of the variation in species' physiological responses to warming, it is clear that idiosyncratic species responses, irrespective of body size, complicate predictions of population and ecosystem level response to future scenarios of climate change.

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Idiosyncratic species effects confound size-based predictions of responses to climate change

Twomey

Brodte

Jacob³

et al. 2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…These fish had been collected from the wild and kept in near-identical conditions to the fish in the 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 current study and for a similar length of time. One possible explanation for this is that lentic sticklebacks develop more muscle than pond sticklebacks as a result having to swim against flowing water, which could increase their overall aerobic demand (Killen et al 2010). This could lead to them having to resort to anaerobic metabolism more often than lentic fish even in conditions where oxygen availability is relatively high, as it was for control fish in both the present and Sneddon and Yerbury's (2004) study.…”

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The effects of acute and chronic hypoxia on cortisol, glucose and lactate concentrations in different populations of three-spined stickleback

O’Connor

Pottinger

Sneddon

2010

Fish Physiol Biochem

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Article (refereed)O'Connor, E.A.; Pottinger, T.G.; Sneddon, L.U.. 2011 The effects of acute and chronic hypoxia on cortisol, glucose and lactate concentrations in different populations of three-spined stickleback. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 37 (3). 461-469. 10.1007/s10695-010-9447-y Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trade marks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. ABSTRACTThe response of individuals from three different populations of three-spined sticklebacks to acute and chronic periods of hypoxia (4.4 kPa DO, 2.2 mg l -1 ) were tested using measures of whole-body (WB) cortisol, glucose and lactate. Although there was no evidence of a neuroendocrine stress response to acute hypoxia, fish from the population least likely to experience hypoxia in their native habitat had the largest response to low oxygen, with significant evidence of anaerobic glycolysis after two hours of hypoxia. However, there was no measurable effect of a more prolonged period (seven days) of hypoxia on any of the fish in this study, suggesting that they acclimated to this low level of oxygen over time. Between-population differences in the analytes tested were observed in the control fish of the acute hypoxia trial, which had been in the laboratory for 16 days. However, these differences were not apparent among the control fish in the chronic exposure groups that had been held in the laboratory for 23 days suggesting that these site-specific trends in physiological status were acclimatory. Overall, the results of this study suggest that local environmental conditions may shape sticklebacks' general physiological profile as well as influencing their response to hypoxia. 2 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 Reduced dissolved oxygen (DO) in the water is an important environmental stressor for fish. Periods of low DO, or hypoxia, can occur as a result of many factors such as eutrophication, elevated ambient temperature and algal blooms. With climate-related warming of freshwater bodies predicted to continue (Bates et al. 2008;Johnson et al. 2009), a greater understanding of the response of fish species to consequent environmental factors such as hypoxia could prove beneficial (Gitay et al. 2002). The three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, is a highly adaptable teleost fish, ubiquitous throughout temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere. Their small size, widedistribution, short generation time and ease of care in captivity have made them a popular study species across a number of different disciplines including ecology, toxicology and molecular biology (Barber and Nettleship 2010; Katsiadaki et al. 2007;Colosimo et al. 2005). However, relatively little is known about how these fish respond to hypoxic stress.Previous studies indicate that the three-...

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“…Variation in intraspecific scaling thus appears to be quite common and related to a set of connected biological and environmental factors (Glazier 2005). For example, variability in scaling exponents has been found to reflect organism lifestyle (Killen et al 2010), the physiological state of the organism (Glazier 2010), and ontogenetic shifts in habitat use (Riisgå rd 1998, Glazier 2005, Glazier 2006). Here, we assess whether variability in mass-metabolism scaling among conspecific populations can be explained by the ecological setting of its habitat, which has previously received relatively little study.…”

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Intraspecific mass-scaling of field metabolic rates of a freshwater crayfish varies with stream land cover

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Abstract. We investigated the effect of land cover on the metabolic scaling of the freshwater crayfish, Orconectes rusticus, by comparing the field metabolic rate (FMR) of populations from streams flowing through different natural and agricultural land cover. When data from all streams were pooled, the metabolic mass-scaling exponent was approximately 0.71. However, both the strength and nature of FMRmass relationships varied among streams (slopes from 0.61 to 0.91). This variability in scaling exponents was significantly correlated with two types of land cover, the proportion of monoculture (row cropping) agriculture (positive slope, P , 0.02, R 2 ¼ 0.75) and the proportion of wetlands (negative slope, P ¼ 0.05, R 2 ¼ 0.57), in the riparian zone of each stream. In a complementary laboratory study, we found the metabolic response of crayfish to differ among animals consuming plant and animal based foods. Crayfish consuming animal-based foods had higher respiration rates than conspecifics consuming plant-based foods. As O. rusticus exhibits variable feeding rates and foraging behavior, differences in the availability and quality of food that accompany changes in catchment land cover provides a potential mechanism for the observed site-dependence of FMR-mass scaling. Intraspecific variability of FMR-mass scaling in stream crayfish and its relationship to catchment land use is further evidence that organismal physiological flexibility and acclimation to specific environments complicates efforts to use general mass-scaling laws to explain disparate ecological phenomena.Key words: invertebrate ecology; land use; metabolism; Ontario; Orconectes rusticus; respiration; stream ecosystems.

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The intraspecific scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes depends on lifestyle and temperature

Cited by 373 publications

References 46 publications

Idiosyncratic species effects confound size-based predictions of responses to climate change

Idiosyncratic species effects confound size-based predictions of responses to climate change

The effects of acute and chronic hypoxia on cortisol, glucose and lactate concentrations in different populations of three-spined stickleback

Intraspecific mass-scaling of field metabolic rates of a freshwater crayfish varies with stream land cover

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