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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 26 | NUMBER 1 | PAGES 99-105 | 2004
© Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

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Lagrangian description of zooplankton swimming trajectories

Marco Uttieri*, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Ai Nihongi1, Maurizio Ribera D’Alcalà, J. Rudi Strickler1 and Enrico Zambianchi2

Laboratory of Biological Oceanography, Stazione Zoologica ‘Anton Dohrn’, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy, 1 Great Lakes Water Institute, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA and 2 Institute of Meteorology and Oceanography, University of Naples ‘Parthenope’, Via De Gasperi, 80121 Napoli, Italy

* Corresponding Author: uttieri{at}szn.it

Three-dimensional swimming, in 20 trajectories of Daphnia pulex, was characterized in terms of its kinematic properties. Results show that the random component was stronger than the deterministic component at time scales >1–2 s. Such random movements may have evolved to outwit potential predators and prey.


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