For more than 200 years, the metabolic response that accompanies meal digestion has
been characterized, theorized, and experimentally studied. Historically labeled “specific …

Specific dynamic action (SDA) is the term used to refer to the increased metabolic
expenditure that occurs in postprandial animals. Postprandial increases in metabolism were …

Ocean acidification (OA) caused by anthropogenic CO2 emission is projected for thousands
of years to come, and significant effects are predicted for many marine organisms. While …

The relationship between the rates of ingestion and defecation of the calanoid copepod
Acartia tonsa was examined in laboratory experiments with different diets: the diatom …

Introduction Copepods present the largest and most diverse group of zooplankton and their
feeding behavior can affect top-down and bottom-up processes. Thus, how efficient feeding …

Ocean acidification is expected to have dramatic impacts on oceanic ecosystems, yet
surprisingly few studies currently examine long‐term adaptive and plastic responses of …

The dinoflagellate Alexandrium pseudogonyaulax, a harmful algal bloom species, is
currently appearing in increasing frequency and abundance across Northern European …

Elevated temperature causes metabolism and respiration to increase in poikilothermic
organisms. We hypothesized that invertebrate consumers will therefore require increasingly …

Short-term, acute warming events are increasing in frequency across the world's oceans. For
short-lived species like most copepods, these extreme events can occur over both within …

Recent literature suggests that heterotrophic protists could improve the biochemical
constituents of poor quality algae for subsequent use by higher trophic levels, a …