Resumen
Whether gill area constrains fish metabolism through oxygen limitation is a debated topic. Here, the authors provide insights into this question by analysing mass-specific metabolic rates across 44 teleost fishes extracted from FishBase. They explore whether species deviations from metabolic rates predicted by body mass can be explained by species gill area. They show that the gill area explains c. 26%–28% of species-level deviations from mass-specific metabolic rates. Their findings suggest that gill area might indeed be one of the factors limiting metabolic rate in fishes.
Idioma original | English |
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Publicación | Journal of Fish Biology |
DOI | |
Estado | Accepted/In press - 2022 |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Grant/Award Number: 770884; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; European Research Council; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Academy of Finland; Saint Mary's University Funding information
Funding Information:
We are extremely saddened by the sudden loss of our co‐author Jeffrey Hutchings during the article writing process. We thank Patrick White (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada) for the extraction of the data from www.FishBase.org . We are grateful to Daniel Pauly for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. This study was funded by the Academy of Finland (project grant no.: 317495 to A.K.), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; Discovery Grants to A.K. and J.A.H.) and the European Research Council (COMPLEX‐FISH 770884 to A.K.). The present study reflects only the authors' view, and the European Research Council is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Fish Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Fisheries Society of the British Isles.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Aquatic Science
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article