The cost of emersion for the barnacle Balanus glandula

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MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections MEPS 627:95-107 (2019) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13058 The cost of emersion for the barnacle Balanus glandula Gordon T. Ober1,2,*, Rhiannon L. Rognstad2,3, Sarah E. Gilman2 1Environmental Science Department, Endicott College, 376 Hale St, Beverly, MA 01915, USA 2The W. M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges, 925 N. Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, USA 3Present address: Marine Science Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA *Corresponding author: gober@kecksci.claremont.edu ABSTRACT: Temperate intertidal species frequently experience broad temperature fluctuations during emersion. However, the metabolic cost of exposure to a particular emersion temperature is not known for most species. We quantified oxygen (O2) consumption by the intertidal barnacle Balanus glandula over a combined 5 h emersion and a 6 h immersion period. Barnacles were exposed to air temperatures of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, or 38°C followed by a 10°C immersion. Respiration was monitored using a fluorometric O2 system. Total O2 consumption over the 11 h period by B. glandula increased with increasing emersion temperatures, reaching a maximum between 20 and 30°C, where consumption was significantly greater than that at 10°C. Aerial and aquatic phases showed similar patterns with temperature, but significant differences among temperatures were only detected in the aerial phase. We also found that respiration rates peaked during the first hour at temperature during emersion and the second hour of immersion. A separate analysis of barnacle behavior over a longer immersion period suggested that stressful emersion temperatures require recovery periods longer than 6 h; thus, our results may underestimate the full cost of thermal stress. When compared to previously published measurements of barnacle body temperatures in the field, our results suggest a large vertical gradient in thermal exposure costs, nearly doubling with a 1 m increase in shore height. We highlight both the difficulty and importance of generating accurate estimates of emersion costs. Such costs are likely to be critical in determining organismal and population responses to changing climate. KEY WORDS: Intertidal barnacle · Respiration · Temperature · Emersion stress · Energetic cost Full text in pdf format Supplementary material PreviousNextCite this article as: Ober GT, Rognstad RL, Gilman SE (2019) The cost of emersion for the barnacle Balanus glandula. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 627:95-107. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13058 Export citation Mail this link - Contents Mailing Lists - RSS Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in MEPS Vol. 627. Online publication date: September 26, 2019 Print ISSN: 0171-8630; Online ISSN: 1616-1599 Copyright © 2019 Inter-Research.