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Measurements of respiration rates can be performed with our sensors in a variety of matrixes. Typically, a closed chamber (air-tight) with a regulated temperature is used and PyroScience sensors spots or fiber sensors are integrated in the measurement chamber.

Our REDFLASH technology allows measurements in low-light environments and less stress of the examined animals.

Using our solution, the respiration rates were measured of:

  • Enclosed sediments, soils or biofilms
  • Measurement of respiration of plants, animals, algae or fish

Our ready-to-use sensor respiration vials were specially designed for this application. These vials are available with integrated oxygen, pH and temperature sensor stripes with different volumes and can be closed air-tight. Addition of compounds is possible by puncturing the septum in the lid with injection needles.

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The effect of pregnancy on metabolic scaling and population energy demand in the viviparous fish Gambusia affinis
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Reduced physiological plasticity in a fish adapted to stable temperatures
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Plasticity to ocean warming is influenced by transgenerational, reproductive, and developmental exposure in a coral reef fish
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Exploring relationships between oxygen consumption and biologger‐derived estimates of heart rate in two warmwater piscivores
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Increased parasite load is associated with reduced metabolic rates and escape responsiveness in pumpkinseed sunfish host.
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Estimation of nitrifying and heterotrophic bacterial activity in biofilm formed on RAS biofilter carriers by respirometry
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Temperature and size-dependency of lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) oxygen requirement and tolerance
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Thermal preference does not align with optimal temperature for aerobic scope in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
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The kinetics of denitrification in permeable sediments
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Aerobic scope predicts dominance during early life in a tropical damselfish
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All puffed out: do pufferfish hold their breath while inflated?
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The effect of temperature and ration size on specific dynamic action and production performance in juvenile hapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios)
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Metabolic rates are elevated and influenced by maternal identity during the early, yolk-dependent, post-hatching period in an estuarine turtle, the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin)
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Rising temperatures may drive fishing-induced selection of low-performance phenotypes
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Oxygen dynamics in shelf seas sediments incorporating seasonal variability
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Discovery of a resting stage in the harmful, brown-tide-causing pelagophyte, Aureoumbra lagunensis: a mechanism potentially facilitating recurrent blooms and geographic expansion
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Thermal stress effects on energy resource allocation and oxygen consumption rate in the juvenile sea cucumber, Holothuria scabra (Jaeger, 1833)
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Relationship between oxygen concentration, respiration and filtration rate in blue mussel Mytilus edulis
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Sediment resuspension effects on dissolved organic carbon fluxes and microbial metabolic potentials in reservoirs
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Cellular respiration, oxygen consumption, and trade-offs of the jellyfish Cassiopea sp. in response to temperature change
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Carbon Bioavailability in a High Arctic Fjord Influenced by Glacial Meltwater, NE Greenland
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Patterns of dark respiration in aquatic systems
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Do males and females respond differently to ocean acidification? An experimental study with the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus
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Experimental support towards a metabolic proxy in fish using otolith carbon isotopes
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Acute high temperature exposure impairs hypoxia tolerance in an intertidal fish
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Functional role of biofouling linked to aquaculture facilities in Mediterranean enclosed locations
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Dityrosine formation via reactive oxygen consumption yields increasingly recalcitrant humic‐like fluorescent organic matter in the ocean
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Hypoxia alters vulnerability to capture and the potential for trait-based selection in a scaled-down trawl fishery
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Valid oxygen uptake measurements: using high r2 values with good intentions can bias upward the determination of standard metabolic rate
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Thermal acclimation of tropical coral reef fishes to global heat waves
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Effects of food limitation on growth, body condition and metabolic rates of non-native blue catfish
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Normoxic limitation of maximal oxygen consumption rate, aerobic scope and cardiac performance in exhaustively exercised rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
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