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Table 3 Olive ridley, flatback, leatherback, loggerhead and green sea turtle hatchlings resting metabolic rate (RMR), crawling metabolic rate (CMR), metabolic rate during routine swimming (AMR) and maximal metabolic rate (MMR) during the frenzy and post-frenzy

From: Ontogeny and ecological significance of metabolic rates in sea turtle hatchlings

 

Whole animal

Mass-specific

Olive ridley (μL O2 min−1)

Flatback (μL O2 min−1)

Green (μL O2 min−1)

Leatherback (μL O2 min−1)

Loggerhead (μL O2 min−1)

Olive ridley (μL O2 g−0.67 min−1)

Flatback (μL O2 g−0.67 min−1)

Green (μL O2 g−0.67 min−1)

Leatherback (μL O2 g−0.67 min−1)

Loggerhead (μL O2 g−0.67 min−1)

Frenzy

RMR

30 ± 2.06, n = 74

122.54 ± 4.5, 80

79.2 ± 3.4, 103

313.55 ± 35.93, 8

63.73 ± 6.45, 3

4.59 ± 0.31

10.3 ± 0.38

10.17 ± 0.45

23.76 ± 2.46

9.45 ± 1.06

CMR

  

228.1 ± 95.85, 8

377.09 ± 47.14, 6

201.47 ± 32.28, 7

  

26.62 ± 11.09

28.82 ± 3.33

28.19 ± 4.6

AMR

  

445.17 ± 26.43, 14

385.92 ± 36.87, 13

253.19 ± 15.2, 11

  

52.57 ± 3.34

30.84 ± 2.86

36.33 ± 2.24

MMR

121.3 ± 6.88, 71

280.93 ± 18.83, 79

518.44 ± 14.46, 90

  

18.42 ± 0.99

23.6 ± 1.56

66.68 ± 1.9

  

Mass (g)

16.46 ± 0.44

40.39 ± 0.43

22.17 ± 0.52

44.91 ± 0.52

18.39 ± 0.4

     

Post-frenzy

RMR

26.89 ± 1.55, 70

75.01 ± 1.82, 79

156.09 ± 23.06, 11

238.3 ± 28.95, 6

131.32 ± 53.94, 15

3.7 ± 0.22

4.67 ± 0.12

13.09 ± 1.94

13.94 ± 1.42

18.91 ± 8.61

AMR

  

392.89 ± 68.98, 23

235.21 ± 12.84, 32

197.79 ± 29.82, 24

  

37.24 ± 6.69

15.18 ± 0.97

19.65 ± 2.26

MMR

78.98 ± 4.53, 70

373.35 ± 18.52, 79

   

10.83 ± 0.62

23.02 ± 1.08

   

Mass (g)

19.39 ± 0.53

63.32 ± 0.58

37.04 ± 1.95

63.45 ± 1.89

29.33 ± 3.81

     
  1. Values are given as μL O2 min−1 (whole animal) and μL O2 g−0.67 min−1 (mass-specific) ± standard error