Response to 'On the importance of understanding physiology when estimating energetics in cetaceans'

A Fahlman; J van der Hoop; M J Moore; G Levine; J Rocho-Levine; M Brodsky

doi:10.1242/bio.023143

Response to 'On the importance of understanding physiology when estimating energetics in cetaceans'

Biol Open. 2017 Feb 15;6(2):307-308. doi: 10.1242/bio.023143.

Authors

A Fahlman^{1

2}, J van der Hoop³, M J Moore⁴, G Levine⁵, J Rocho-Levine⁵, M Brodsky⁶

Affiliations

¹ Fundación Oceanogràfic, c/Gran Vía Marqués del Turia 19, 46005, Valencia, Spain [email protected].
² Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA.
³ Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
⁴ Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Rd, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
⁵ Dolphin Quest, Oahu, 5000 Kahala Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816, USA.
⁶ V.M.D. Consulting, Miami, FL 33138, USA.

Abstract

Summary: Our paper highlights how temporal changes in tidal volume and the oxygen exchange ratio significantly affect the accuracy of models that use only breathing frequency to estimate metabolic rate.

Publication types

Letter