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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

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