author keywords: Aquatic invertebrates; Salinity; Metabolic rate; Aquatic insects; Calcium; Ion transport

TL;DR: It is shown here for the first time that metabolic rate was unchanged by salinity in the aquatic insects, whereas ion transport rates were positively correlated with higher salinities, which potentially implicates the cost of calcium uptake as a driver of increased metabolic rate under dilute conditions in organisms with calcified exoskeletons. (via Semantic Scholar)