scholarly journals Too big to study? The biologging approach to understanding the behavioural energetics of ocean giants

2021 ◽  
Vol 224 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuuki Y. Watanabe ◽  
Jeremy A. Goldbogen

ABSTRACT Wild animals are under selective pressure to optimise energy budgets; therefore, quantifying energy expenditure, intake and allocation to specific activities is important if we are to understand how animals survive in their environment. One approach toward estimating energy budgets has involved measuring oxygen consumption rates under controlled conditions and constructing allometric relationships across species. However, studying ‘giant’ marine vertebrates (e.g. pelagic sharks, whales) in this way is logistically difficult or impossible. An alternative approach involves the use of increasingly sophisticated electronic tags that have allowed recordings of behaviour, internal states and the surrounding environment of marine animals. This Review outlines how we could study the energy expenditure and intake of free-living ocean giants using this ‘biologging’ technology. There are kinematic, physiological and theoretical approaches for estimating energy expenditure, each of which has merits and limitations. Importantly, tag-derived energy proxies can hardly be validated against oxygen consumption rates for giant species. The proxies are thus qualitative, rather than quantitative, estimates of energy expenditure, and have more limited utilities. Despite this limitation, these proxies allow us to study the energetics of ocean giants in their behavioural context, providing insight into how these animals optimise their energy budgets under natural conditions. We also outline how information on energy intake and foraging behaviour can be gained from tag data. These methods are becoming increasingly important owing to the natural and anthropogenic environmental changes faced by ocean giants that can alter their energy budgets, fitness and, ultimately, population sizes.

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
Mark Meade ◽  
Lindsay White ◽  
Rahim Zettili ◽  
Megan Meade ◽  
Saad Almani ◽  
...  

Abstract Variable crayfish, Cambarus latimanus (LeConte), were collected and acclimated to four temperatures, 15, 20, 25, and 30°C. Following a two-week acclimation period, mean standard metabolic rates (SMR), as determined using oxygen consumption rates, were measured using an intermittent-flow, closed-loop respirometer. For ~10g mean weight C. latimanus, mean weight specific oxygen consumption rates (MO2) at 15, 20, 25, and 30°C were 73.4 ± 0.18, 81.6 ± 0.10, 103 ± 0.11, and 205 ± 0.12 mg O2·kg-1·h-1 (±SE), respectively. Calculated Q10 values of 1.25, 1.61, and 3.92 for the change in metabolic rate from 15 – 20°C, 20 – 25°C, and 25 – 30°C suggest the crayfish were responding normally to temperature increases and were metabolically stressed when temperatures increased above 25°C. Daily caloric energy budgets of 58 (15°C), 65 (20°C), 82 (25°C), and 164 (30°C) calories·day-1 were estimated for crayfishes using SMR data and suggested that crayfish standard (resting) energy requirements nearly tripled when acclimated to 15 versus 30°C. Overall, these data suggest that increased temperatures have substantial effects on C. latimanus energy demands which may reduce potential growth and reproduction.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles-Mathieu Lachaume ◽  
François Trudeau ◽  
Jean Lemoyne

The purpose of this study was to investigate the energy expenditure and heart rate responses elicited in elite male midget ice hockey players during small-sided games. Nine players (aged 15.89 ± 0.33 years) participated in the study. Maximal progressive treadmill testing in the laboratory measured the relationship of oxygen consumption ([Formula: see text]) to heart rate before on-ice assessments of heart rate during six different small-sided games: 1v1, 2v2, 2v2 with support player, 3v3 with support player, 3v3 with transitions, and 4v4 with two support players. Heart rate was recorded continuously in each game. 3v3 T small-sided game was the most intense for all four intensity markers. All six small-sided games reached 89% HRmax or more with heart rate peaks in active effort repetition. These findings demonstrate that such small-sided games are considered as high intensity games and are an effective training method for ice hockey players.


2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth N. Orcutt ◽  
C. Geoffrey Wheat ◽  
Olivier Rouxel ◽  
Samuel Hulme ◽  
Katrina J. Edwards ◽  
...  

1958 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-395
Author(s):  
R. W. EDWARDS

1. The oxygen consumption rates of 3rd- and 4th-instar larvae of Chironomus riparius have been measured at 10 and 20° C. using a constant-volume respirometer. 2. The oxygen consumption is approximately proportional to the 0.7 power of the dry weight: it is not proportional to the estimated surface area. 3. This relationship between oxygen consumption and dry weight is the same at 10 and at 20° C.. 4. The rate of oxygen consumption at 20° C. is greater than at 10° C. by a factor of 2.6. 5. During growth the percentage of dry matter of 4th-instar larvae increases from 10 to 16 and the specific gravity from 1.030 to 1.043. 6. The change in the dry weight/wet weight ratio during the 4 larval instar supports the theory of heterauxesis. 7. At 20° C., ‘summer’ larvae respire faster than ‘winter’ larvae.


Author(s):  
Andrew N. Bosch ◽  
Kirsten C. Flanagan ◽  
Maaike M. Eken ◽  
Adrian Withers ◽  
Jana Burger ◽  
...  

Elliptical trainers and steppers are proposed as useful exercise modalities in the rehabilitation of injured runners due to the reduced stress on muscles and joints when compared to running. This study compared the physiological responses to submaximal running (treadmill) with exercise on the elliptical trainer and stepper devices at three submaximal but identical workloads. Authors had 18 trained runners (male/female: N = 9/9, age: mean ± SD = 23 ± 3 years) complete randomized maximal oxygen consumption tests on all three modalities. Submaximal tests of 3 min were performed at 60%, 70%, and 80% of peak workload individually established for each modality. Breath-by-breath oxygen consumption, heart rate, fuel utilization, and energy expenditure were determined. The value of maximal oxygen consumption was not different between treadmill, elliptical, and stepper (49.3 ± 5.3, 48.0 ± 6.6, and 46.7 ± 6.2 ml·min−1·kg−1, respectively). Both physiological measures (oxygen consumption and heart rate) as well as carbohydrate and fat oxidation differed significantly between the different exercise intensities (60%, 70%, and 80%) but did not differ between the treadmill, elliptical trainer, and stepper. Therefore, the elliptical trainer and stepper are suitable substitutes for running during periods when a reduced running load is required, such as during rehabilitation from running-induced injury.


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (4) ◽  
pp. E467-E474 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Hallgren ◽  
L. Sjostrom ◽  
H. Hedlund ◽  
L. Lundell ◽  
L. Olbe

The oxygen consumption of human adipose tissue (AT) was determined in 53 adults, lean and obese, and in nine lean boys. The oxygen consumption was positively related to fat cell weight and negatively to age and degree of obesity. Men and women did not differ with respect to oxygen consumption of AT. The positive relationship between oxygen consumption per cell and fat cell size was also demonstrated in size-separated cells from the same donors. Expressed per cell the oxygen consumption was higher in fat cells from obese than in cells from lean subjects, but expressed per gram of tissue the opposite result was found. The oxygen consumption of the total AT organ was higher in obese than in lean subjects. The energy expenditure of AT constituted approximately 4% of the estimated 24-h energy expenditure in both groups. It is concluded that obese subjects do not maintain their obesity because of a reduced energy expenditure of the total AT (or of the total body). After a partial weight reduction in five subjects, the energy metabolism tended to change in direction toward the conditions seen in lean subjects. However, it is still an open question whether the observed energy metabolic aberrations of obese human AT are only secondary to the obese state or partly primary and thus of etiological importance.


1958 ◽  
Vol 193 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth McClintock ◽  
Nathan Lifson

Measurements of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production were made by the Haldane open circuit method on hereditarily obese mice and littermate controls, and the energy expenditures were estimated. Studies were made on mice for short periods under ‘basal’ conditions, and for periods of approximately a day with the mice fasted and confined, fasted and relatively unconfined, and fed and unconfined. The total energy expenditures of fed and unconfined obese mice were found to be higher than those of nonobese littermate controls by virtue of a) increased ‘basal metabolism’, b) greater energy expenditure associated with feeding, and possibly c) larger energy output for activity despite reduced voluntary movement. The values obtained for total metabolism confirm those previously determined by an isotope method for measuring CO2 output.


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