... more oxygen to tissues as demand increases exponentially with temperature. By contrast, capacity functions (i.e. cardiac stroke volume, tissue oxygen extraction and haemoglobin concentration) are exploited only secondarily if at all, with increasing temperature, and then perhaps only at a temperature...

... of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 cardiac output cardiac stroke volume heart rate aerobic metabolism rate of oxygen consumption teleost temperature tissue oxygen extraction Metabolic studies of highly active teleost fishes are inherently difficult due to their pelagic life history and often...