Ben Speers-roesch

Publications

• Biochemical correlates of aggressive behavior in the Siamese fighting fish
• Effects of temperature and hydrostatic pressure on routine oxygen uptake of the bloater (Coregonus hoyi)
• Interspecific dietary diversity has little influence on pathways of glucose metabolism in liver and heart of piranhas and pacus (family Serrasalmidae)
• Does the physiology of chondrichthyan fishes constrain their distribution in the deep sea?
• Enzymatic capacities of metabolic fuel use in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and responses to food deprivation: insight into the metabolic organization and starvation survival strategy of cephalopods
• Inactivity and the passive slowing effect of cold on resting metabolism as the primary drivers of energy savings in overwintering fishes
• Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes.
• Brain cooling marginally increases acute upper thermal tolerance in Atlantic cod.
• Brain cooling marginally increases maximum thermal tolerance in Atlantic cod
• Don't throw the fish out with the respirometry water.
• Osmolyte Adjustments as a Pressure Adaptation in Deep-Sea Chondrichthyan Fishes: An Intraspecific Test in Arctic Skates (Amblyraja hyperborea) along a Depth Gradient.
• Intraspecific Variation in the Sublethal Effects of Physically and Chemically Dispersed Crude Oil on Early Life Stages of Atlantic Cod ( Gadus morhua )
• Gut transport characteristics in herbivorous and carnivorous serrasalmid fish from ion-poor Rio Negro water.
• Effects of fatty acid provision during severe hypoxia on routine and maximal performance of the in situ tilapia heart.
• Hypoxia tolerance in sculpins is associated with high anaerobic enzyme activity in brain but not in liver or muscle.
• Exceptional cardiac anoxia tolerance in tilapia (Oreochromis hybrid).
• Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. I. Critical oxygen tension as a measure of blood oxygen transport during hypoxia exposure.
• Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. II. Cardiovascular function and tissue metabolic responses during progressive and relative hypoxia exposures.
• A radical approach to beating hypoxia: depressed free radical release from heart fibres of the hypoxia-tolerant epaulette shark (Hemiscyllum ocellatum).
• Effects of environmental hypoxia on cardiac energy metabolism and performance in tilapia.
• The unusual energy metabolism of elasmobranch fishes.
• Plasma non-esterified fatty acids of elasmobranchs: comparisons of temperate and tropical species and effects of environmental salinity.
• Using fatty-acid profile analysis as an ecologic indicator in the management of tourist impacts on marine wildlife: a case of stingray-feeding in the Caribbean.
• Metabolic organization of the spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes): insight into the evolution of energy metabolism in the chondrichthyan fishes.
• Metabolic organization of freshwater, euryhaline, and marine elasmobranchs: implications for the evolution of energy metabolism in sharks and rays.
• The accumulation of methylamine counteracting solutes in elasmobranchs with differing levels of urea: a comparison of marine and freshwater species.
• Activities of antioxidant enzymes and cytochrome c oxidase in liver of Arctic and temperate teleosts.
• Critical oxygen tensions as predictors of hypoxia tolerance and tissue metabolic responses during hypoxia exposure in fishes
• Ecological significance of thermal tolerance and performance in fishes: new insights from integrating field and laboratory approaches
• Scientific Misconduct: The Elephant in the Lab. A Response to Parker et al.
• The benefit of being still: energy savings during winter dormancy in fish come from inactivity and the cold, not from metabolic rate depression
• Reply to: Methods matter in repeating ocean acidification studies.
• Oxygen-dependence of upper thermal limits in crustaceans from different thermal habitats.
• The physiological ups and downs of thermal variability in temperate freshwater ecosystems.
• Oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: blurring ecology and physiology.
• Maximum thermal limits of coral reef damselfishes are size dependent and resilient to near-future ocean acidification.
• Metabolic rate and rates of protein turnover in food-deprived cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis (Linnaeus 1758).
• ‘Aerobic scope protection’ reduces ectotherm growth under warming
• Intraspecific Variation in the Sublethal Effects of Physically and Chemically Dispersed Crude Oil on Early Life Stages of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua)
• Thermal constraints on exercise and metabolic performance do not explain the use of dormancy as an overwintering strategy in the cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus)
• Among-individual variation in thermal plasticity of fish metabolic rates causes profound variation in temperature-specific trait repeatability, but does not co-vary with behavioural plasticity
• Environmental variation associated with overwintering elicits marked metabolic plasticity in a temperate salmonid, Salvelinus fontinalis
• Exposure to individual polycyclic aromatic compounds impairs the cardiac performance of American lobster (Homarus americanus) larvae