BIOB34H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sockeye Salmon, Thermal Conductivity, Evaporation
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Aerobic scope = maximal metabolic rate standard metabolic rate. It is a rate (since it is the difference between maximum and standard metabolic rate) at which energy can be used (eg. move, reproduce, etc. ) It is significant because it represents the energy that is available to the animal to move pejus threshold temperature temperature that marks the boundaries of the optimal scope. If your aerobic scope drops to 0, you won"t be able to do anything you are at your upper or lower lethal temperature where you can no longer receive oxygen. The effect of temperature to standard metabolic rate is exponential. Sockeye salmon at fraser river the population of sockeye salmon is dropping because the fraser river is warming. Fraser river is now so warm, the temperature increased by 2-3o (?) It is one of the most valuable species in canada. It is used as a food source and is important to indigenous people.
