Swimming against the flow: A mechanism of zooplankton aggregation

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5723, 2005, Pages 860-862

  Genin, Amatzia ^a   Jaffe, Jules S ^b   Reef, Ruth ^a   Richter, Claudio ^c   Franks, Peter J S ^b  

^a The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; AGGLOMERATION; COASTAL ZONES; MARINE BIOLOGY;

FISHERMEN; PREDATORS; RED SEA; ZOOPLANKTONS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CURRENT; DOWNWELLING; OCEANIC FRONT; UPWELLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SWIMMING; WATER FLOW; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CUES; INDIAN OCEAN; MOVEMENT; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRESSURE; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; ZOOPLANKTON;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; WORLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 18244407014     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107834     Document Type: Article

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