Conspecific cues suppress metabolic rate.xlsx

We used sessile marine invertebrates to test how food availability interacts with oxygen availability, water flow and chemical cues to affect metabolic rate. Mass is weight of colony (g)VO2 is oxygen consumption rate (mL O2/h)Avg_Loph is the average number of extruded lophophoresTreatment_order is the order colonies were exposed to the control treatment in Experiment 4

本研究采用附着性海洋无脊椎动物为实验对象，以探究食物供应与氧气供应、水流以及化学信号之间的相互作用，如何影响新陈代谢速率。其中，‘mass’代表群体质量（克），‘VO2’为氧气消耗速率（毫升氧气/小时），‘Avg_Loph’表示平均外排触手的数量，而‘Treatment_order’则记录了实验4中各个群体接受控制处理的顺序。