Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2002/00812
The cellular basis of standard and active metabolic rate in the free-swimming cephalopod, Sephia officinalis.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor C Ellington, University of Cambridge, Zoology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor LS Peck, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Science Programmes
- Grant held at:
- University of Cambridge, Zoology
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Physiology
- Conservation Ecology
- Population Ecology
- Abstract:
- Current concepts in cellular energetics predict that the bioenergetic models used in fisheries science may overestimate the ATP yield per mole of O2 consumed at rest (i.e, the maintenance metabolism). The proposed experiments examine the extent to which such O2-inefficiencies might influence estimates of energy allocation in commercially important cephalopods. In addition, the application of non-invasive NMR spectroscopy, together with field studies using remote sensing technologies that estimate energy costs in free-ranging animals, will enable us to refine field energy budgets using cephalopod-specific oxycalorific equivalents and aerobic/anaerobic energy yields that reflect as far as possible the true costs of activity in nature.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2002/00812
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £145,994
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £4,444 | £86,548 | £15,191 | £39,813 |
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