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Ben Speers-Roesch
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Latest papers
Oxygen supersaturation has negligible effects on warming tolerance across diverse aquatic ectotherms.
PLoS biology · 2025
Arctic lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) show evidence of seasonal acclimation of cardiac adrenergic sensitivity but not heat tolerance.
Journal of fish biology · 2025
Unintended Consequences of Aquatic Enrichment in Experimental Biology.
Environmental science & technology · 2025
Latest funding
- $40,000
Mechanisms and significance of thermal plasticity over rapid to seasonal time scales among fishes
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $87,597
Microinjection and imaging suite for assessing the genetic and molecular basis of physiological responses to changing environments in fishes
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $182,000
Mechanisms and significance of physiological plasticity in winter-dormant fishes: a model to understand constraints on performance in cold environments
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
24 publications.
Oxygen supersaturation has negligible effects on warming tolerance across diverse aquatic ectotherms.
Raby GD, De Bonville J, Reynolds L, Storm Z, Cowan ZL, Metz M, Andreassen AH, Pfeufer L, Lechner ER, Stewart EMC, Leeuwis RHJ, Ern R, Silva-Garay L, Skeeles MR, Roche DG, Morgan R, Green L, Speers-Roesch B, Mills SC, Clark TD, Jutfelt F
Arctic lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) show evidence of seasonal acclimation of cardiac adrenergic sensitivity but not heat tolerance.
Williams EP, Harris LN, Moore JS, Middleton EK, Berkelhammer SA, Speers-Roesch B, Gilbert MJH
Unintended Consequences of Aquatic Enrichment in Experimental Biology.
Blewett TA, Ackerly KL, Sundin J, Clark TD, Rowsey LE, Griffin RA, Metz M, Kuchenmüller L, Leeuwis RHJ, Levet M, Martin S, Speers-Roesch B, Jutfelt F, Joudan S
Dynamics of thermal tolerance plasticity across fish species and life stages.
De Bonville J, Andreassen AH, Cowan ZL, Silva-Garay L, Leeuwis RHJ, Åsheim ER, Speers-Roesch B, Raby GD, Binning SA, Jutfelt F
Is the diel cycle of routine metabolic rate in mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) affected by near-infrared lighting used for visualizing behavior of fishes at night?
Trembley AM, Rowsey LE, Speers-Roesch B
Temperature-dependent exercise recovery is not associated with behavioral thermoregulation in a salmonid fish.
Rowsey LE, Kieffer JD, Speers-Roesch B
Among-individual variation in thermal plasticity of fish metabolic rates causes profound variation in temperature-specific trait repeatability, but does not co-vary with behavioural plasticity.
Norin T, Rowsey LE, Houslay TM, Reeve C, Speers-Roesch B
Environmental variation associated with overwintering elicits marked metabolic plasticity in a temperate salmonid, Salvelinus fontinalis.
Middleton EK, Gilbert MJH, Landry T, Lamarre SG, Speers-Roesch B
Thermal constraints on exercise and metabolic performance do not explain the use of dormancy as an overwintering strategy in the cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus).
Rowsey LE, Reeve C, Savoy T, Speers-Roesch B
The effects of winter cold acclimation on acute and chronic cadmium bioaccumulation and toxicity in the banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus).
Suominen E, Speers-Roesch B, Fadhlaoui M, Couture P, Blewett TA, Crémazy A
Mechanisms and significance of thermal plasticity over rapid to seasonal time scales among fishes
Principal investigators: Speers-Roesch, Ben
Keywords: temperature; environmental physiology; metabolism; metabolic rate; plasticity; fish; heart; starvation; winter; thermal biology
Microinjection and imaging suite for assessing the genetic and molecular basis of physiological responses to changing environments in fishes
Principal investigators: Zimmer, Alex
Mechanisms and significance of physiological plasticity in winter-dormant fishes: a model to understand constraints on performance in cold environments
Principal investigators: Speers-Roesch, Ben
Keywords: Behavioural physiology; Dormancy; Environmental animal physiology; Fish; Metabolic rate; Metabolism; Overwintering; Physiological performance; Physiological plasticity; Temperature
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Suzanne Currie and Ben Speers-Roesch: 1 shared paper
- Patrice Couture and Ben Speers-Roesch: 1 shared paper
- Ben Speers-Roesch and Shira Joudan: 1 shared paper
- Biology (Saint John)
- Centre Eau Terre Environnement
- Chemistry
- Biology
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