Shark and ray megafauna have crucial roles as top predators in many marine ecosystems,
but are currently among the most threatened vertebrates and, based on historical …

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 …

Metabolic rate is intricately linked to the ecology of organisms and can provide a framework
to study the behaviour, life history, population dynamics, and trophic impact of a species …

Ocean warming and acidification act concurrently on marine ectotherms with the potential for
detrimental, synergistic effects; yet, effects of these stressors remain understudied in large …

Energy is a fundamental currency of life that can be quantified in organisms to understand
how environmental conditions and anthropogenic stressors affect individuals, scaling up to …

This study developed a portable, low‐cost field respirometer for measuring oxygen
consumption rates of large‐bodied fishes. The respirometer performed well in laboratory …

Bioenergetics models are powerful tools used to address a range of questions in fish
biology. However, these models are rarely informed by free‐swimming activity data …

Dynamic body acceleration (DBA), measured through animal-attached tags, has emerged
as a powerful method for estimating field metabolic rates of free-ranging individuals …

Bioenergetics is informative for a range of fundamental and applied resource management
questions, but findings are often constrained by a lack of ecological realism due to the …

Energetics is fundamentally linked to the fitness of animals and as a result is of considerable
interest to many disciplines in the biological sciences, from biophysics to ecology. Despite its …