Differences in mean oxygen consumption of fed and unfed larvae used to understand the metabolic cost of digestion, Specific Dynamic Action (SDA), under ocean acidification and warming treatments - Experiment 1

These data include the differences in mean oxygen consumption of fed and unfed larvae used to understand the metabolic cost of digestion, Specific Dynamic Action (SDA), under ocean acidification and warming treatments. Data was collected in the summers of 2021 and 2022 using a microplate reader system that uses optical fluorescence to measure dissolved oxygen concentrations in water. Knowing the energetic cost of digestion under future climate change is important as studies, particularly on larval fish, begin to investigate how energy budgets will change. These data help us to understand an important part of daily metabolic costs and how that cost might change under ocean acidification and warming. Data were collected by Emma Siegfried and Dr. Darren Johnson at California State University, Long Beach. These data are from Experiment 1 and they contain delta VO2 values to describe the SDA curve for a single feeding at a single temperature (20 degrees Celsius).