Extremes of metabolic strategy in Antarctic Bryozoa

Barnes, D.K.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9076-7867; Peck, L.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3479-6791. 2005 Extremes of metabolic strategy in Antarctic Bryozoa. Marine Biology, 147 (4). 979-988. 10.1007/s00227-005-1628-3

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Abstract/Summary

The physiology of many organisms in many places varies with seasonality of environment characteristics. Polar marine environments are amongst the least and most seasonal. For example, sea temperature varies by <3°C while light climate and primary productivity vary more than elsewhere. Polar nearshore invertebrates generally live life at a slow pace with recorded metabolic rates of 22–454 mgrg O2/g ash-free dry-mass/h. We measured oxygen uptake by three Antarctic cheilostomatid bryozoan species during summer and winter months. Our data suggest that, in many ways, bryozoans differ from other animals. They have enormous metabolic flexibility; more within the order Cheilostomatida than in all other polar marine animals measured to date. One species alone, Kymella polaris, had both the lowest (16.8) and highest (574.9 mgrg O2/g ash-free dry-mass/h levels recorded. Furthermore, Camptoplites bicornis showed no significant change in oxygen consumption with season whereas the final species, Isoseculiflustra tenuis, showed the highest winter to summer metabolic rise (ratio =3.45) reported for a polar species. They may not have a resting state analogous to other animals, but exhibit either full activity or lsquodormancyrsquo in which most organic tissues are reabsorbed. The concept of resting metabolism in this taxon may be inappropriate.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1007/s00227-005-1628-3
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Antarctic Science in the Global Context (2000-2005) > Life at the Edge - Stresses and Thresholds
ISSN:	0025-3162
Additional Keywords:	Bryozoans, Metabolism
NORA Subject Terms:	Zoology
Date made live:	17 Dec 2007 11:27 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1626

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1007/s00227-005-1628-3

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Antarctic Science in the Global Context (2000-2005) > Life at the Edge - Stresses and Thresholds

ISSN:

0025-3162

Additional Keywords:

Bryozoans, Metabolism

NORA Subject Terms:

Zoology