The evolution of modern marine ecosystems: environmental controls on their structure and function
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
Abstract
See text in lead RO submission (Plymouth)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Clive Trueman (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Chung MT
(2019)
Field metabolic rates of teleost fishes are recorded in otolith carbonate.
in Communications biology
Trueman C
(2013)
Chemical taphonomy of biomineralized tissues
in Palaeontology
Trueman CN
(2013)
Thermal, trophic and metabolic life histories of inaccessible fishes revealed from stable-isotope analyses: a case study using orange roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus.
in Journal of fish biology
Trueman CN
(2016)
Ecogeochemistry potential in deep time biodiversity illustrated using a modern deep-water case study.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
| Description | Main findings emerge as the full consortium share data (this grant collected environmental data supporting interpretations of biological information in other projects). However, the development and validation of a proxy measurement for field metabolic rate from fish otoliths is likely to be the main finding. Metabolic rate is central to understanding how individuals and popultions interact with the environment - and how they will respond to environmental change. Until now, there has been no reliable way of assessing field metabolic rate expressed by animals in the wild. we have developed and validated a way of measuring this retrospectively from the chemistry of otoliths |
| Exploitation Route | we are building new research collaborations and applications based on expressed field metabolic rate in the context of environmental change |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment |
| Description | The otolith metabolism proxy developed in this project has been further investigated as an extremely promising target for recovering metabolic rate information in both living but inaccessible fishes and in deep time. One paper has been published outlining the possibilities for deep time research (Trueman et al 2017, Phil Trans Roy Soc). The data were also used to construct a successful Marie Curie postdoctoral award for a PhD student in Southampton to travel to Aarhus. This work is now underway and is showing great promise. Finally the method developed underpins a NERC DTP PhD project representig a new collaboration between U Southampton and the Natural History Museum |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
| Description | Marie Curie postoctoral fellowship - awarded to MT Chung to wirk in Aarhus University |
| Amount | € 0 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 11/2016 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Title | otolith metabolic rate proxy |
| Description | Development and validation of a geochemical method to recover mass specific relative metabolic rate from carbon isotope measurements in fish otoliths. While the original method was published in 2014, work underway in the Coldfish project has considerably extended our understanding of the proxy and its application to theorretical and practical applied topics |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | collaborations and grants in progress |
| Description | Aarhus university Peter Gronkjaer |
| Organisation | Aarhus University |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building on the metabolic rate proxy developed in our group by PhD student Shores, we obtained a Marie Curie research fellowship for Ming-Tsung Chung. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Aarhus group provided experimental materials and analytical equipment to establish direct calibrations between otolith d13C values and oxyge consumption rates |
| Impact | papers in review |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Cefas otolith |
| Organisation | Centre For Environment, Fisheries And Aquaculture Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in development and use of the otolith metabolic rate proxy |
| Collaborator Contribution | expertise in fish ecology and access to a large archive of historic plaice otoliths |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | NHM |
| Organisation | Natural History Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We bring expertise in use of the new otolith metabolic rate proxy and otolith analysis methods |
| Collaborator Contribution | NHM provides expertise in phylogenetic analysis and evolutionary macroecology as well as access to museum collections |
| Impact | Not yet |
| Start Year | 2017 |