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Otolith δ13C values as a metabolic proxy: approaches and mechanical underpinnings: approaches and mechanical underpinnings

Otolith δ13C values as a metabolic proxy: approaches and mechanical underpinnings: approaches and mechanical underpinnings
Otolith δ13C values as a metabolic proxy: approaches and mechanical underpinnings: approaches and mechanical underpinnings
Knowledge of metabolic costs associated with maintenance, foraging, activity and growth under natural conditions is important for understanding fish behaviours and the bioenergetic consequences of a changing environment. Fish performance in the wild and within a complex environment can be investigated by analysing individual-level field metabolic rate and, at present, the natural stable carbon isotope tracer in otoliths offers the possibility to reconstruct field metabolic rate. The isotopic composition of carbon in fish otoliths is linked to oxygen consumption through metabolic oxidation of dietary carbon. The proportion of metabolically derived carbon can be estimated with knowledge of δ13C values of diet and dissolved inorganic carbon in the water. Over the past 10 years, new techniques to study fish ecology have been developed, and these can be used to strengthen the application of otolith δ13C values as a metabolic proxy. Here, we illustrate the great potential of the otolith δ13C metabolic proxy in combination with other valuable and well-established approaches. The novel approach of the otolith δ13C metabolic proxy allows us to track the effects of ontogenetic and environmental drivers on individual fish physiology, and removes a major obstacle to understanding and predicting the performance of free-ranging wild fish.
bioenergetics, field metabolic rate, isotopic mixing models, oxygen consumption
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1747-1756
Chung, Ming-Tsung
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Trueman, Clive N.
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Godiksen, Jane Aanestad
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Chung, Ming-Tsung
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Trueman, Clive N.
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Godiksen, Jane Aanestad
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Chung, Ming-Tsung, Trueman, Clive N., Godiksen, Jane Aanestad and Grønkjær, Peter (2019) Otolith δ13C values as a metabolic proxy: approaches and mechanical underpinnings: approaches and mechanical underpinnings. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70 (12), 1747-1756. (doi:10.1071/MF18317).

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Knowledge of metabolic costs associated with maintenance, foraging, activity and growth under natural conditions is important for understanding fish behaviours and the bioenergetic consequences of a changing environment. Fish performance in the wild and within a complex environment can be investigated by analysing individual-level field metabolic rate and, at present, the natural stable carbon isotope tracer in otoliths offers the possibility to reconstruct field metabolic rate. The isotopic composition of carbon in fish otoliths is linked to oxygen consumption through metabolic oxidation of dietary carbon. The proportion of metabolically derived carbon can be estimated with knowledge of δ13C values of diet and dissolved inorganic carbon in the water. Over the past 10 years, new techniques to study fish ecology have been developed, and these can be used to strengthen the application of otolith δ13C values as a metabolic proxy. Here, we illustrate the great potential of the otolith δ13C metabolic proxy in combination with other valuable and well-established approaches. The novel approach of the otolith δ13C metabolic proxy allows us to track the effects of ontogenetic and environmental drivers on individual fish physiology, and removes a major obstacle to understanding and predicting the performance of free-ranging wild fish.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 March 2019
Keywords: bioenergetics, field metabolic rate, isotopic mixing models, oxygen consumption

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Local EPrints ID: 430060
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430060
ISSN: 1323-1650
PURE UUID: d0c31783-96f8-486e-8b4a-19915dd03fc2
ORCID for Clive N. Trueman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4995-736X

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Last modified: 12 Jun 2024 01:39

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Author: Ming-Tsung Chung
Author: Jane Aanestad Godiksen
Author: Peter Grønkjær

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