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Comparison Of Thermal Tolerance And Standard Metabolic Rate Of Two Great Lakes Invasive Fish Species, Ken G. Drouillard, David A. Feary Dr, Xin Sun, Jessica A. O'Neil, Todd Leadley, Tim B. Johnson Dr
Comparison Of Thermal Tolerance And Standard Metabolic Rate Of Two Great Lakes Invasive Fish Species, Ken G. Drouillard, David A. Feary Dr, Xin Sun, Jessica A. O'Neil, Todd Leadley, Tim B. Johnson Dr
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research Publications
Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and western tubenose goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) invaded the Laurentian Great Lakes at approximately the same time and area yet have shown substantial differences in their post-invasion success with more rapid establishment and development of much larger abundances of round goby populations throughout the invaded habitat. In this study, we compared differences in physiological performance (thermal tolerance and standard metabolic rate) between round and tubenose goby collected from the Huron-Erie corridor. Tubenose goby were observed to have lower thermal tolerance but exhibited similar standard metabolic rate across environmental temperatures compared to round goby. …