Shapes of krill swarms and fish schools emerge as aggregation members avoid predators and access oxygen

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1758-1762

  Brierley, Andrew S ^a   Cox, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHAUSIACEA; FISH; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHAUSIACEA; FISHES; OXYGEN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; AVES; CLUPEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENGRAULIDAE; EUPHAUSIACEA; UNGULATA;

EID: 77957850794     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.041     Document Type: Article

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