Swimming performance is considered a main character determining survival in many
aquatic animals. Body morphology highly influences the energetic costs and efficiency of …

Energy metabolism fuels swimming and other biological processes. We compared the
swimming performance and energy metabolism within and across eight freshwater fish …

The oxygen consumption rates of two cyprinid fishes, carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) and roach
(Rutilus rutilus (L.)), were analysed for a wide range of body mass and swimming speed by …

We tested the hypothesis that the energetics of swimming in a flume accurately represent the
costs of various spontaneous movements using empirical relationships between fish …

Cost reduction strategies are often invoked as explanations when studies of adaptation fail
to find predicted costs. This might seem discouraging, offering little opportunity for further …

Several measures have been developed to quantify swimming performance to understand
various aspects of ecology and behaviour, as well as to help design functional applications …

A model is presented describing the energetic consequences of various behavioral
responses to currents. To minimize the energy cost of migration, when confronted with …

Flow regimes are believed to be of major evolutionary significance in fish. The flow regimes
inhabited by cyprinids vary extensively from still flow regimes to riptide flow regimes. To test …

The best swimmers have a streamlined shape that ensures an attached flow pattern and a
laminar boundary layer at rather large values of the Reynolds number. Simple expressions …

This chapter explores the ways fish swim from zero speeds in station-holding and hovering,
through cruising and sprint, to fast starts. The range of power required to swim over such a …