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The relationship between respiration and swimming speed of larvae and juveniles (2–100 mg fresh mass) of Danube bleak, Chalcalburnus chalcoides (Cyprinidae), was measured at 15° and 20° C under hypoxic (50% air saturation), normoxic, and hyperoxic (140% air saturation) conditions. In a flow-tunnel equipped with a flow-through respirometer the animals swam at speeds of up to 8 lengths . s−1; speeds were sustained for at least two minutes. The mass specific standard, routine, and active respiration rates declined with increasing body mass at both temperatures. Metabolic intensity increased with temperature, but also the critical swimming speed (at which oxygen uptake reached its maximum) was higher at 20° than at 15° C by about 30%. Nevertheless, the oxygen debt incurred by the fish at the highest speeds was about 40%, and the net cost of swimming about 32%, lower at 20° than at 15° C. The standard metabolic rate was more strongly dependent on temperature (Q10 around 2.5) than the maximum active rate (Q10 below 2). Whereas standard and routine respiration rates were well regulated over the pO2-range investigated (8.5–25.8 kPa), the active rates showed a conformer-like pattern, resulting in factorial scopes for activity between 2 and 4. Under hypoxia, the critical swimming speed was lower than under normoxia by about 1.5 l · s−1, but the net cost of swimming was also lower by about 30%. On the other hand, hyperoxia neither increased the swimming performance nor did it lead to a further increase of the metabolic cost of swimming. The hypoxia experiments suggest that in response to lowered tensions of ambient oxygen maintenance functions of metabolism not directly related to swimming may be temporarily reduced, leading to increased apparent swimming efficiency under these conditions. The responses of the larvae of Danube bleak to low temperature and low ambient oxygen are discussed in terms of the metabolic strategies by which energy-limited animals meet the challenge of environmental deterioration.
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Kaufmann, R., Wieser, W. (1992). Influence of temperature and ambient oxygen on the swimming energetics of cyprinid larvae and juveniles. In: Wieser, W., Schiemer, F., Goldschmidt, A., Kotrschal, K. (eds) Environmental biology of European cyprinids. Developments in environmental biology of fishes, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2544-4_9
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