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The significance of respiration timing in the energetics estimates of free-ranging killer whales (Orcinus orca)

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Date
07/2016
Author
Roos, Marjoleine Merel Hansje
Wu, Gi-Mick
Miller, Patrick
Funder
Office of Naval Research
Office of Naval Research
Grant ID
N00014140390
N00014 08 1 0984
Keywords
Metabolic rate
Oxygen uptake
Respiration timing
Orcinus orca
Respiration rate
In-situ
GC Oceanography
QH301 Biology
QL Zoology
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Abstract
Respiration rate has been used as an indicator of metabolic rates and associated cost-of-transport (COT) of free-ranging cetaceans, discounting potential respiration-by-respiration variation in O2 uptake. To investigate the influence of respiration timing on O2 uptake we developed a dynamic model of O2 exchange and storage. Individual respiration events were revealed from kinematic data from ten adult Norwegian herring-feeding killer whales (Orcinus orca) recorded with high-resolution tags (DTAGs). We compared fixed-O2-uptake-per-respiration models to O2 uptake per respiration estimated through a simple 'broken-stick' O2-uptake function, in which O2 uptake was assumed to be the maximum-possible O2 uptake when stores are depleted or maximum total body O2 store minus existing O2 store when stores are close to saturated. Conversely to assuming fixed O2 uptake per respiration, uptake from the broken-stick model yielded a high correlation (r2 > 0.9) between O2 uptake and activity level. Moreover, we found that respiration intervals became less variable and increased at higher swimming speeds, possibly to increase O2 uptake efficiency per breath. As found in previous studies, COT decreased monotonically versus speed using the fixed-O2-uptake-per-respiration models. However, the broken-stick uptake model yielded a curvilinear COT-curve with a clear minimum at typical swimming speeds of 1.7-2.4 m s-1. Our results showed that respiration-by-respiration variation in O2 uptake is significant. And though O2 consumption measurements of COT for free-ranging cetaceans remain impractical, accounting for the influence of respiration timing on O2 uptake will lead to more consistent predictions of field metabolic rates than using respiration rate alone.
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Roos , M M H , Wu , G-M & Miller , P 2016 , ' The significance of respiration timing in the energetics estimates of free-ranging killer whales ( Orcinus orca ) ' , Journal of Experimental Biology , vol. 219 , no. 13 , pp. 2066-2077 . https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.137513
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Journal of Experimental Biology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.137513
ISSN
0022-0949
Type
Journal article
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© 2016, the Author(s). This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at jeb.biologists.org / https://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.137513
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11163

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