ArticleConservation physiology2019
Thermal performance of fish is explained by an interplay between physiology, behaviour and ecology.
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- On the correlated evolution of ecological lifestyle and thermal tolerance.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Developmental responses of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) to temperature modulation with insights into intestinal and morphological traits.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The effects of warm thermal variability on metabolism and swimming performance in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- Swimming smarter, not harder: fishes exploit habitat heterogeneity to increase locomotor performance.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Assessing individual physiological variability and future performance phenotypes is essential for predicting the resilience of fish populations to anthropogenic climate change.Conservation physiology · 2025Article
- Impacts of ocean warming on fish size reductions on the world's hottest coral reefs.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The interplay between sleep and ecophysiology, behaviour and responses to environmental change in fish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Review
- Size-dependence of food intake and mortality interact with temperature and seasonality to drive diversity in fish life histories.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Does size-selective harvesting erode adaptive potential to thermal stress?Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Interactive effects of sedimentary turbidity and elevated water temperature on the Pugnose Shiner (Conservation physiology · 2024Article
- Thermal sensitivity of field metabolic rate predicts differential futures for bluefin tuna juveniles across the Atlantic Ocean.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Temperature impacts on fish physiology and resource abundance lead to faster growth but smaller fish sizes and yields under warming.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature-size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Article
- Oxygen limitation may affect the temperature and size dependence of metabolism in aquatic ectotherms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Effects of temperature on feeding and digestive processes in fish.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2020Review
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Abstract
Increasing temperatures under climate change are thought to affect individual physiology of fish and other ectotherms through increases in metabolic demands, leading to changes in species performance with concomitant effects on species ecology. Although intuitively appealing, the driving mechanism behind thermal performance is contested; thermal performance (e.g. growth) appears correlated with metabolic scope (i.e. oxygen availability for activity) for a number of species, but a substantial number of datasets do not support oxygen limitation of long-term performance. Whether or not oxygen limitations via the metabolic scope, or a lack thereof, have major ecological consequences remains a highly contested question. size and trait-based model of energy and oxygen budgets to determine the relative influence of metabolic rates, oxygen limitation and environmental conditions on ectotherm performance. We show that oxygen limitation is not necessary to explain performance variation with temperature. Oxygen can drastically limit performance and fitness, especially at temperature extremes, but changes in thermal performance are primarily driven by the interplay between changing metabolic rates and species ecology. Furthermore, our model reveals that fitness trends with temperature can oppose trends in growth, suggesting a potential explanation for the paradox that species often occur at lower temperatures than their growth optimum. Our model provides a mechanistic underpinning that can provide general and realistic predictions about temperature impacts on the performance of fish and other ectotherms and function as a null model for contrasting temperature impacts on species with different metabolic and ecological traits.
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