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Zooplankton: Not-so-passive motion in turbulence
2015-11-12 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Imagine a species that is only one millimetre long and has only a limited swimming ability. Yet, its mobility is sufficient for moving, feeding and reproducing in freshwater and seawater. That's exactly what a type of zooplankton of the crustaceans family -- namely the calanoid copepods -- does. In a study published in EPJ E, physicists shed new light on how these zooplankton steer large-scale collective motion under strong turbulence. To do so, the authors study the zooplankton's small-scale motion...
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turbulence
zooplankton
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