Activity and metabolic rate of free-swimming smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in large, interconnected ecosystems

In large, interconnected systems such as the Laurentian Great Lakes, little is known about how smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) activity varies across contrasting habitat types. As an important and widespread predator in southern Boreal waterbodies, understanding how smallmouth bass allocate energy toward movement is critical for linking behaviour to ecosystem processes, particularly when habitat types differ in the energetic costs they impose. Eastern Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Riv