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Homeostatic swimming of zooplankton upon crowding : The case of the copepod Centropages typicus
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- Uttieri, Marco (author)
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
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- Hinow, Peter (author)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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- Pastore, Raffaele (author)
- University of Naples Federico II
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- Bianco, Giuseppe (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,NanoLund: Centre for Nanoscience,Annan verksamhet, LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Enhet akvatisk ekologi,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Evolutionär ekologi,Djurens navigation,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,CAnMove - Centrum för forskning om djurs spridning och flyttning,Other operations, LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH,Division aquatic ecology,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,Evolutionary ecology,Animal Navigation Lab,Lund University Research Groups,CAnMove - Centre for Animal Movement Research
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- Ribera D'Alcalá, Maurizio (author)
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
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- Mazzocchi, Maria Grazia (author)
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
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- 2021-06-23
- 2021
- English.
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In: Journal of the Royal Society Interface. - : The Royal Society. - 1742-5689 .- 1742-5662. ; 18:179
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Abstract
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- Crowding has a major impact on the dynamics of many material and biological systems, inducing effects as diverse as glassy dynamics and swarming. While this issue has been deeply investigated for a variety of living organisms, more research remains to be done on the effect of crowding on the behaviour of copepods, the most abundant metazoans on Earth. To this aim, we experimentally investigate the swimming behaviour, used as a dynamic proxy of animal adaptations, of males and females of the calanoid copepod Centropages typicus at different densities of individuals (10, 50 and 100 ind. l -1) by performing three-dimensional single-organism tracking. We find that the C. typicus motion is surprisingly unaffected by crowding over the investigated density range. Indeed, the mean square displacements as a function of time always show a crossover from ballistic to Fickian regime, with poor variations of the diffusion constant on increasing the density. Close to the crossover, the displacement distributions display exponential tails with a nearly density-independent decay length. The trajectory fractal dimension, D 3D ≅ 1.5, and the recently proposed 'ecological temperature' also remain stable on increasing the individual density. This suggests that, at least over the range of animal densities used, crowding does not impact on the characteristics of C. typicus swimming motion, and that a homeostatic mechanism preserves the stability of its swimming performance.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Zoologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Zoology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Centropages typicus
- crowding
- ecological temperature
- fractal dimension
- mean square displacement
- random walk
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