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Oriented swimming and passive advection 145<br />
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Figure 6.13 Decrease of larval duration with increasing temperature; observations<br />
for 72 species (A, left) and model (B, right). Thick lines with diamonds<br />
in plot A are species identified as outliers in the subsequent analysis. Light<br />
lines in plot B are the models for individual species. The dark solid line is the<br />
grand mean model with 95% confidence interval (dotted lines). Reproduced<br />
with permission from O’Connor et al. 37 .<br />
which larvae were set to swim had no significant influence on their<br />
critical speed. So, within a few degrees, the only noticeable effect of<br />
temperature on swimming is through muscle development and growth.<br />
Therefore, in the model, the only effect of temperature is on PLD. For<br />
a tropical fish with PLD = 25 d, the relationship predicts a decrease<br />
of 3 d. The PLD of a temperate fish decreases more, because of the<br />
convexity of the curve, from 27 d to 21.7 d. From the reduced PLD, the<br />
development of swimming speed is re-computed with equation (6.9)<br />
and, as a consequence, at any given age, U crit of larvae developing in<br />
warmer waters is higher than U crit of larvae developing at present-day<br />
rate (Figure 6.12).<br />
Different view of the energy budget<br />
In addition to setting maximum speeds, the time larvae can sustain<br />
such speeds also needs to be bounded for swimming strategies to be<br />
biologically sensible (section 6.2.1, page 119). Measures of swimming<br />
endurance involve setting larvae to swim in flumes of constant speed<br />
and timing how long they are able to maintain their position against the<br />
current 236 . As noticed before, this technique measures the maximum<br />
potential of larvae because it disregards any concern about maintaining<br />
growth. Such studies reveal that, even unfed, coral reef 236 and temperate<br />
rocky shore 268 fish larvae can swim continuously for several days and<br />
cover tenths of kilometres. In the same setting, when larvae are fed,<br />
their swimming endurance increases to the point that the experiment<br />
must sometimes be stopped before the fish is exhausted 269 . In such<br />
cases, the oldest individuals even grow at a rate comparable to control,<br />
non-swimming, larvae 270 . Similarly to swimming speed, in this new<br />
Extraordinary<br />
swimming endurance