Guidelines for reporting methods to estimate metabolic rates by aquatic intermittent-flow respirometry.

ABSTRACT: Interest in the measurement of metabolic rates is growing rapidly, because of the importance of metabolism in advancing our understanding of organismal physiology, behaviour, evolution and responses to environmental change. The study of metabolism in aquatic animals is undergoing an especially pronounced expansion, with more researchers utilising intermittent-flow respirometry as a research tool than ever before. Aquatic respirometry measures the rate of oxygen uptake as a proxy for metabolic rate, and the intermittent-flow technique has numerous strengths for use with aquatic animals, allowing metabolic rate to be repeatedly estimated on individual animals over several hours or days and during exposure to various conditions or stimuli. There are, however, no published guidelines for the r

SUBMITTER: Killen SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8467026 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature