Thermal performance of fish is explained by an interplay between physiology, behaviour and ecology.

ABSTRACT: Increasing temperatures under climate change are thought to affect individual physiology of fish and other ectotherms through increases in metabolic demands, leading to changes in species performance with concomitant effects on species ecology. Although intuitively appealing, the driving mechanism behind thermal performance is contested; thermal performance (e.g. growth) appears correlated with metabolic scope (i.e. oxygen availability for activity) for a number of species, but a substantial number of datasets do not support oxygen limitation of long-term performance. Whether or not oxygen limitations via the metabolic scope, or a lack thereof, have major ecological consequences remains a highly contested question. size and trait-based model of energy and oxygen budgets to determine the re

SUBMITTER: Neubauer P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6659025 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature