Measuring metabolic rate in the field: the pros and cons of the doubly labelled water and heart rate methods

By P. Butler, J. Green, I. Boyd, J. Speakman. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Associations between over-winter survival and resting metabolic rate in juvenile North American red squirrels (2010, positive): “D A I L Y E N E R GY EX P E N D I T U R E The daily energy expenditure (DEE) of a subset of individuals was determined using the doubly-labelled water method (Butler et al. 2004).”
Prying into the intimate details of animal lives: use of a daily diary on animals (2008, background): “…such as jaw movement (e.g. Liebsch et al. 2007) or acceleration (e.g. Yoda & Ropert-Coudert 2007), (3) energetics (using heart rate as a proxy, e.g. Butler et al. 2004) (4) the environmental conditions surrounding the animal (Fedak 2004) and (5) animal physiology (such as blood oxygen content;…”
Biotelemetry: a mechanistic approach to ecology. (2004, methodology): “metabolites, heart-rate telemetry can be used to estimate this cost [ 8 ,20]”
What makes marine turtles go: A review of metabolic rates and their consequences (2008, methodology): “The accuracy of the DLW method decreases as the ratio of rCO2 to rH2O decreases (Speakman, 1997; Butler et al., 2004).”
Making overall dynamic body acceleration work: on the theory of acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure (2011, methodology): “In addition, the technique is not suitable for all taxa (Butler et al. 2004; Nagy & Costa 1980; but see Sparling et al. 2007).”
Accelerometers can measure total and activity-specific energy expenditures in free-ranging marine mammals only if linked to time-activity budgets (2017, methodology): “However, heart rates and DLW measurements can be invasive, very costly, have their own biological limitations and are often impractical for large wild animals (Nagy 1980; Thorarensen, Gallaugher & Farrell 1996; Ward et al. 2002; Butler et al. 2004; Dalton, Rosen & Trites 2014).”
Accelerating estimates of activity-specific metabolic rate in fishes: Testing the applicability of acceleration data-loggers (2010, methodology): “Commonly used methods for avian, reptilian and mammalian subjects such as doubly labelled water and the heart-rate method (Butler et al., 2004) have limited applicability to fishes.”
Hypometabolism and basking: the strategies of Alpine ibex to endure harsh over-wintering conditions (2011, background): “1998), birds (Bevan et al. 1995; Butler et al. 2004; Green & Frappell 2007) and kangaroos (McCarron et al.”
Moving towards acceleration for estimates of activity-specific metabolic rate in free-living animals: the case of the cormorant. (2006, background): “Given the limitations and difficulties involved in measuring rate of energy expenditure of free-living animals (Butler et al. 2004), measurement of triaxial dynamic acceleration appears to have great potential for deriving the energy expenditure involved in locomotion.”
Estimating activity-specific energy expenditure in a teleost fish, using accelerometer loggers (2014, background): “…estimate of metabolic rate in large (>1 kg) teleosts (Clark et al. 2005, Casselman et al. 2012), although limitations include high equipment costs, poor reliability (Butler et al. 2004) and variable relationships between fH and oxygen consumption (Thorarensen et al. 2005, Iversen et al. 2010).”
The broad‐scale ecology of energy expenditure of endotherms (2005, methodology): “MATER I A L S AND METHODS We compiled data (Appendix S1) on body mass (M; g) and FMR (kJ day)1) measured using the doubly labelled water method (Lifson & McClintock 1966; reviewed in Butler et al. 2004) for 112 mammal and 136 bird populations representing 86 and 96 species, respectively.”