Journal article
Low global sensitivity of metabolic rate to temperature in calcified marine invertebrates
SA Watson, SA Morley, AE Bates, MS Clark, RW Day, M Lamare, SM Martin, PC Southgate, KS Tan, PA Tyler, LS Peck
Oecologia | Published : 2014
Abstract
Metabolic rate is a key component of energy budgets that scales with body size and varies with large-scale environmental geographical patterns. Here we conduct an analysis of standard metabolic rates (SMR) of marine ectotherms across a 70° latitudinal gradient in both hemispheres that spanned collection temperatures of 0-30 °C. To account for latitudinal differences in the size and skeletal composition between species, SMR was mass normalized to that of a standard-sized (223 mg) ash-free dry mass individual. SMR was measured for 17 species of calcified invertebrates (bivalves, gastropods, urchins and brachiopods), using a single consistent methodology, including 11 species whose SMR was desc..
View full abstractGrants
Awarded by Natural Environment Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
S.-A. W. was funded by a NERC Ph.D. studentship to the University of Southampton and the British Antarctic Survey. Antarctic fieldwork was funded by a Collaborative Gearing Scheme Grant. We thank the Rothera Research Station dive, boating and support team for assisting with animal collections. Diving in Antarctica under UK jurisdiction is supported by the NERC National Centre for Scientific Diving, Oban. Arctic research was supported by the NERC research station at Ny Alesund and diving supported by the Alfred Wegener Institute dive team under Max Schwanitz. S. M. M. was self funded. C. H. Lai and K. D. Nguyen helped with collections in Singapore. Research in New Zealand was supported by TransAntarctic Association Grant TAA05/08. F. J., T. S., A. J. and L. Gibson, J. Mallinson and S. J. M. Hughes also assisted with collection. We thank Andrew Clarke and two anonymous reviewers for comments that significantly improved the manuscript.