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JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages 51-64Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12851
Keywords
aquatic respirometry; intermittent-flow respirometry; measurement error
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As intermittent-flow respirometry has become a common method for the determination of resting metabolism or standard metabolic rate (SMR), this study investigated how much of the variability seen in the experiments was due to measurement error. Experiments simulated different constant oxygen consumption rates ((M) over dotO(2)) of a fish, by continuously injecting anoxic water into a respirometer, altering the injection rate to correct for the washout error. The effect of respirometer-to-fish volume ratio (RFR) on SMR measurement and variability was also investigated, using the simulated constant (M) over dotO(2) and the (M) over dotO(2) of seven roach Rutilus rutilus in respirometers of two different sizes. The results show that higher RFR increases measurement variability but does not change the mean SMR established using a double Gaussian fit. Further, the study demonstrates that the variation observed when determining oxygen consumption rates of fishes in systems with reasonable RFRs mainly comes from the animal, not from the measuring equipment.
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