Publications
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  1. Raby, G.D., De Bonville, J., Reynolds, L., Storm, Z., Cowan, Z.-L., Metz, M., Andreassen, A.H., Pfeufer, L., Lechner, E.R., Stewart, E.M.C., Leeuwis, R.H.J., Ern, R., Silva-Gray, L., Skeeles, M.R., Roche, D.G., Morgan, R., Green, L., Speers-Roesch, B., Mills, S.C., Clark, T.D., and Jutfelt, F. 2025. Oxygen supersaturation has negligible effects on warming tolerance across diverse aquatic ectotherms. PLoS Biology 23: e3003413. Link
  2. Williams, E.P., Harris, L.N., Moore, J.-S., Middleton, E.K., Berkelhammer, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., and Gilbert, M.J.H. 2025. Arctic lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) show evidence of seasonal acclimation of cardiac adrenergic sensitivity but not heat tolerance. Journal of Fish Biology DOI: 10.1111/jfb.70206 Link
  3. Raby, G.D, Morgan, R., Andreassen, A.H., Stewart, E., De Bonville, J., Hoots, E., Kuchenmuller, L., Metz, M., Rowsey, L.E., Green, L., Griffin, R., Martin S., Reid, H., Ern, R., Asheim, E.R., Cowan, Z.-L.-, Leeuwis, R.H.J., Blewett, T., Speers-Roesch, B., Clark, T.D., Binning, S.A., Sundin, J., and Jutfelt, F. 2025. Measuring critical thermal maximum in aquatic ectotherms: a practical guide. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16: 2208-2228. Link
  4. Blewett, T., Ackerley, K.L., Sundin, J., Clark, T.D., Rowsey, L.E., Griffin, R.A., Metz, M., Kuchenmuller, L., Leeuwis, R.H.J., Levet, M., Martin, S., Speers-Roesch, B., Jutfelt, F., and Joudan, S. 2025. Unintended consequences of aquatic enrichment in experimental biology. Environmental Science & Technology 59: 8301-8307. Link
  5. De Bonville, J., Andreassen, A.H., Cowan, Z.-L., Silva-Garay, L., Leeuwis, R.H.J., Asheim, E.R., Speers-Roesch, B., Raby, G.D., Binning, S.A., and Jutfelt, F. 2025. The dynamics of thermal tolerance plasticity in fishes differ among species and life stages. Journal of Thermal Biology 127: 104024. Link
  6. Trembley, A.M., Rowsey, L.E., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. 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? Journal of Fish Biology 105: 1843-1849. Link
  7. Rowsey, L.E., Kieffer, J.D., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Brook char (Salvelinus fontinalis) show temperature-dependent exercise recovery yet do not exhibit behavioral thermoregulation. Journal of Thermal Biology 123: 103888. Link
  8. Dubiel, J., Scovil, A.M., Speers-Roesch, B., Wiseman, S., de Jourdan, B., and Philibert, D. 2024. Exposure to individual polycyclic aromatic compounds impairs the cardiac performance of American lobster (Homarus americanus). Aquatic Toxicology 269: 106863. Link
  9. Middleton, E.K., Gilbert, M.J.H., Landry, T., Lamarre, S.G., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Environmental variation associated with overwintering elicits marked metabolic plasticity in a temperate salmonid, Salvelinus fontinalis. Journal of Experimental Biology 227: jeb246743.​ Link
  10. Rowsey, L.E., Reeve, C., Savoy, T., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Thermal constraints on exercise and metabolic performance do not explain the use of dormancy as an overwintering strategy in the cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus). Journal of Experimental Biology 227: jeb246741.​ Link
  11. Norin, T., Rowsey, L.E., Houslay, T.M., Reeve, C., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2024. Among-individual variation in thermal plasticity of fish metabolic rates causes profound temperature-dependent variation in trait repeatability, but does not co-vary with behavioural plasticity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379: 20220488. Link
  12. Suominen, E., Speers-Roesch, B., Fadhlaoui, M., Couture, P., Blewett, T., and Cremazy, A. 2023. The effects of winter cold acclimation on acute and chronic cadmium bioaccumulation and toxicity in the banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus). Aquatic Toxicology 262: 106667. Link
  13. Scovil, A.M., Boloori, T., de Jourdan, B.P., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2023. The effect of chemical dispersion and temperature on the metabolic and cardiac responses to physically dispersed crude oil exposure in larval American lobster (Homarus americanus). Marine Pollution Bulletin 191: 114976. Link
  14. Gilbert, M.J.H., Middleton, E.K., Kanayok, K., Harris, L.N., Moore, J.-S., Farrell, A.P., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2022. Rapid cardiac thermal acclimation in wild anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus). Journal of Experimental Biology 225: jeb244055. Link
  15. Scovil, A.M., de Jourdan, B.P., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2022. Intraspecific variation in the sublethal effects of physically and chemically dispersed crude oil on early life stages of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 41: 1967-1976. Link
  16. Reeve, C., Rowsey, L.E., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2022. Inactivity and the passive slowing effect of cold on resting metabolism as the primary drivers of energy savings in overwintering fishes. Journal of Experimental Biology 225: jeb243407. Editor's Choice. Shortlisted for Outstanding Paper of the Year. Link
  17. Jutfelt, F., Norin, T., Asheim, E.R., Rowsey, L.E., Andreassen, A.H., Morgan, R., Clark, T.D., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2021. 'Aerobic scope protection' reduces ectotherm growth under warming. Functional Ecology 35: 1397-1407. Link
  18. Morash, A.J., Speers-Roesch, B., Andrews, S., and Currie, S. 2021. The physiological ups and downs of thermal variability in temperate freshwater ecosystems. Journal of Fish Biology 98: 1524-1535. Link
  19. Norin, T., Sundin, J., Morgan, M., Andreassen, A.H., Amcoff, M., Speers-Roesch, B., Jutfelt, F., Binning, S.A., Roche, D.G., and Clark, T.D. 2021. Predator presence affects activity patterns but not food consumption or growth of juvenile corkwring wrasse (Symphodus melops). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75: 14. Link
  20. Norin, T., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2021. Metabolism. In: The Physiology of Fishes, Fifth Edition (eds. Suzanne Currie and David H. Evans). CRC Press: Boca Raton. pp. 129-141. Link
  21. Ern, R., Chung, D., Frieder, C.A., Madsen, N., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2020. Oxygen-dependence of upper thermal limits in crustaceans from different thermal habitats. Journal of Thermal Biology 93: 102732. Link
  22. Clark, T.D., Raby, G.D., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Jutfelt, F., and Sundin, J. 2020. Reply to: Methods matter in repeating ocean acidification studies. Nature 586: E25-E27. Link
  23. Clark, T.D., Raby, G.D., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Jutfelt, F., and Sundin, J. 2020. Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes. Nature 577: 370-375. Link
  24. Roche, D.G., Amcoff, M., Morgan, R., Sundin, J., Andreassen, A.H., Finnøen, M.H., Lawrence, M.J., Henderson, E., Norin, T., Speers-Roesch, B., Brown, C., Clark, T.D., Bshary, R., Leung, B., Jutfelt, F., and Binning, S.A. 2020. Behavioural lateralization in a detour test is not repeatable in fishes. Animal Behaviour 167: 55-64. Link
  25. Jutfelt, F., Roche, D.G., Clark, T.D., Norin, T., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Amcoff, M., Morgan, R., Andreassen, A.H., and Sundin, J. 2019. Brain cooling marginally increases acute upper thermal tolerance in Atlantic cod. Journal of Experimental Biology 2019: jeb208249. Link
  26. Regan, M.D., Mandic, M., Dhillon, R.S., Lau, G.Y., Farrell, A.P., Schulte, P.M., Seibel, B.A., Speers-Roesch, B., Ultsch, G.R., and Richards, J.G. 2019. Correspondence: Don't throw the fish out with the respirometry water. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb200253. Link
  27. Speers-Roesch, B., Norin, T., and Driedzic, W.R. 2018. The benefit of being still: energy savings during winter dormancy in fish come from inactivity and the cold, not from metabolic rate depression. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20181593. Link
  28. ​Jutfelt, F., Norin, T., Ern, R., Overgaard, J., Wang, T., McKenzie, D.J., Lefevre, S., Nilsson, G.E., Metcalfe, N.B., Hickey, A.J.R., Brijs, J., Speers-Roesch, B., Roche, D.G., Gamperl, A.K., Raby, G.D., Morgan, R., Esbaugh, A.J., Grans, A., Axelsson, M., Ekström, A., Sandblom, E., Binning, S.A., Hicks, J.W., Seebacher, F., Jorgensen, C., Killen, S.S., Schulte, P.M., and Clark, T.D. 2018. Comment on Portner et al.: Oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: blurring ecology and physiology. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb169615. Link
  29. Yancey, P.H., Speers-Roesch, B., Majewski, A., Atchison, S., Reist, J.D., and Treberg, J.R. 2018. Osmolyte adjustments as a pressure adaptation in deep-sea chondrichthyan fishes: An intraspecific test in Arctic skates (Amblyraja hyperborea) along a depth gradient. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 91: 788-796. Link
  30. ​Clark, T.D., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Speers-Roesch, B., and Sundin, J. 2017. Maximum thermal limits of coral reef damselfishes are size dependent and resilient to near-future ocean acidification. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 3519-3526.​ Link
  31. Speers-Roesch, B., Robinson, J.L., Val, A.L., Almeida-Val, V.M.F., and Driedzic, W.R. 2017. Interspecific dietary diversity has little influence on pathways of glucose metabolism in liver and heart of piranhas and pacus (family Serrasalmidae). Hydrobiologia 789: 107-121. Link
  32. Speers-Roesch, B., Callaghan, N.I., MacCormack, T.J., Lamarre, S.G., Sykes, A., and Driedzic, W.R. 2016. Enzymatic capacities of metabolic fuel use in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and responses to food deprivation: insight into the metabolic organization and starvation survival strategy of cephalopods. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 186: 711-725. Link
  33. Lamarre, S.G., MacCormack, T.J., Sykes, A., Speers-Roesch, B., Callaghan, N.I., and Driedzic, W.R. 2016. Metabolic rate and rates of protein turnover in food deprived cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 310: R1160-R1168. Link
  34. Speers-Roesch, B., and Norin, T. 2016. Ecological significance of thermal tolerance and performance in fishes: new insights from integrating field and laboratory approaches. Functional Ecology 30: 842-844. Link
  35. Treberg, J.R., and Speers-Roesch, B. 2016. Does the physiology of chondrichthyan fishes constrain their distribution in the deep-sea? Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 615-625. Link
  36. Clark, T.D., Binning, S.A., Raby, G.D., Speers-Roesch, B., Sundin, J., Jutfelt, F., and Roche, D.G. 2016. Scientific misconduct: the elephant in the lab. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 899-900. Link
  37. Regan, M.D., Dhillon, R.S., Toews, D.P.L., Speers-Roesch, B., Sackville, M.A., Pinto, S., Bystriansky, J.S., and Scott, G.R. 2015. Biochemical correlates of aggressive behaviour in the Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens. Journal of Zoology 297: 99-107. Link
  38. Pelster, B., Wood, C.M., Speers-Roesch, B., Driedzic, W.R., Almeida-Val, V., and Val, A. 2015. Gut transport characteristics in herbivorous and carnivorous serrasalmid fish from ion-poor Rio Negro water. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 185: 225-241. Link
  39. Speers-Roesch, B., Mandic, M., Groom, D.J.E., and Richards, J.G. 2013. Critical oxygen tensions as predictors of hypoxia tolerance and tissue metabolic responses during hypoxia exposure in fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 449: 239-249. Link
  40. Speers-Roesch, B., Lague, S.L., Farrell, A.P., and Richards, J.G. 2013. Effects of fatty acid provision during severe hypoxia on routine and maximal performance of the in situ tilapia heart. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 773-785. Link
  41. Mandic, M., Speers-Roesch, B., and Richards, J.G. 2013. Hypoxia tolerance in sculpins is associated with high anaerobic enzyme activity in brain, but not in liver or muscle. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 92-105. Link
  42. Lague, S.L., Speers-Roesch, B., Richards, J.G., and Farrell, A.P. 2012. Exceptional cardiac anoxia tolerance in tilapia (Oreochromis hybrid). Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 1354-1365. Link
  43. Hickey, A.J.R., Renshaw, G.M.C., Speers-Roesch, B., Richards, J.G., Wang, Y., Farrell, A.P., and Brauner, C.J. 2012. A radical approach to beating hypoxia: Depressed free radical release from heart fibres of the hypoxia-tolerant epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium ocellatum). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 182: 91-100. Link
  44. Speers-Roesch, B., Brauner, C.J., Farrell, A.P., Hickey, A.J.R., Renshaw, G.M.C., Wang, Y.S., and Richards, J.G. 2012. Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. II. Cardiovascular function and tissue metabolic responses during progressive and relative hypoxia exposures. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 103-114. Link
  45. Speers-Roesch, B., Richards, J.G., Brauner, C.J., Farrell, A.P., Hickey, A.J.R., Wang, Y.S., and Renshaw, G.M.C. 2012. Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. I. Critical oxygen tension as a measure of blood oxygen transport during hypoxia exposure. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 93-  102. Link
  46. Speers-Roesch, B., and Treberg, J.R. 2010. The unusual energy metabolism of elasmobranch fishes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 155: 417-434. Link
  47. Speers-Roesch, B., Sandblom, E., Lau, G.Y., Farrell, A.P., and Richards, J.G. 2010. Effects of environmental hypoxia on cardiac energy metabolism and performance in tilapia. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 298: R104-R119. Link
  48. Speers-Roesch, B., Ip, Y.K., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2008. Plasma non-esterified fatty acids of elasmobranchs: comparisons of temperate and tropical species and effects of environmental salinity. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 149: 209-216. Link
  49. Semeniuk, C.A., Speers-Roesch, B., and Rothley, K.D. 2007. Using fatty-acid profile analysis as an ecologic indicator in the management of tourist impacts on marine wildlife: a case of stingray-feeding in the Caribbean. Environmental Management 40: 665-677. Link
  50. Speers-Roesch, B., Robinson, J.W., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2006. Metabolic organization of the spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes): insight into the evolution of energy metabolism in the chondrichthyan fishes. Journal of Experimental Zoology 305A: 631-644. Link
  51. Speers-Roesch, B., Ip, Y.K., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2006. Metabolic organization of freshwater, euryhaline, and marine elasmobranchs: implications for the evolution of energy metabolism in sharks and rays. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 2495-2508. Link
  52. Treberg, J.R., Speers-Roesch, B., Piermarini, P., Ip, Y.K., Ballantyne, J.S., and Driedzic, W.R. 2006. The accumulation of methylamine counteracting solutes in elasmobranchs with differing levels of urea: comparison of marine and freshwater species. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 860-870. Link
  53. Speers-Roesch, B., and Ballantyne, J.S. 2005. Activities of antioxidant enzymes and cytochrome c oxidase in liver of Arctic and temperate teleosts. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 140: 487-494. Link
  54. Speers-Roesch, B., Lingwood, D., and Stevens, E.D. 2004. Effects of temperature and hydrostatic pressure on the routine oxygen uptake of bloater (Coregonus hoyi). Journal of Great Lakes Research 30: 70-81. Link