respR publication


respR has been peer reviewed and published. Please cite this paper if you use it in your work:
 

Harianto, J., Carey, N., & Byrne, M. respR - An R Package for the Manipulation and Analysis of Respirometry Data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), 912–920. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13162.

 
 
 

See also

These packages may also help you analyse respirometry data:

Be sure to check out the FishResp site, where the developers are releasing a variety of amazing free and open source tools for conducting respirometry experiments, including resources for building your own respirometry equipment at a fraction of the cost of commercial systems.

References

The following publications were instrumental in developing respR and writing the vignettes on this site, or are referenced in the various vignettes. See here for references specific to critical oxygen analyses (i.e. \(P_{crit}\)).  
 

Carey, N, Harianto, J, & Byrne, M. 2016. Sea urchins in a high-CO 2 world: Partitioned effects of body size, ocean warming and acidification on metabolic rate. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(8), 1178–1186. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.136101
Chabot, D, Zhang, Y, & Farrell, AP. 2021. Valid oxygen uptake measurements: Using high R2 values with good intentions can bias upward the determination of standard metabolic rate. Journal of Fish Biology, 98(5), 1206–1216. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14650
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