The author shares some lessons learned from a lifetime of working with and thinking about groups. Three types of groups are described, including the impact they have on the …
Aggregations of organisms, ranging from zooplankton to whales, are an extremely common phenomenon in the pelagic zone; perhaps the best known are fish schools. Social …
DP Croft, BJ Arrowsmith, J Bielby, K Skinner, E White… - Oikos, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐ranging groups are frequently assorted by phenotypic characters. However, very little is known about the underlying processes that determine this structuring. In this study, we …
Swarming is a fundamental part of the life of Euphausia superba, yet we still know very little about what drives the considerable variability in swarm shape, size and biomass. We …
M Zhou, RD Dorland - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2004 - Elsevier
Aggregation and vertical migration behavior of Euphausia superba were studied in Marguerite Bay and its vicinity west of the Antarctic Peninsula using a vessel-mounted …
DA Ritz - Advances in marine biology, 1994 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Social aggregations are a familiar sight among aquatic vertebrates: One has only to think of schools of dolphins, pods of whales, flocks of seagulls, and schools of …
N Kokubun, A Takahashi, Y Mori, S Watanabe… - Marine Biology, 2010 - Springer
Chinstrap, Pygoscelis antarctica, and gentoo, P. papua, penguins are sympatric species that inhabit the Antarctic Peninsula. To evaluate differences in the foraging habitat of these two …
M Zhou, W Nordhausen, M Huntley - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 1994 - Elsevier
Euphausiid populations were observed in Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula region, during austral winter 1992 (12 July–14 Aug) using a hull-mounted 153-kHz acoustic Doppler …
GA Tarling, S Fielding - Biology and ecology of Antarctic krill, 2016 - Springer
The behavioural ecology of Antarctic krill is dominated by their tendency to swarm. They form amongst the largest monospecific aggregations of biomass in the animal kingdom, with …