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Stochastic resonance and the evolution of Daphnia foraging strategy.
Physical biology - 24 Nov 2008
Dees Nathan D, Bahar Sonya, Moss Frank
Abstract excerpt
Search strategies are currently of great interest, with reports on foraging ranging from albatrosses and spider monkeys to microzooplankton. Here, we investigate the role of noise in optimizing search strategies. We focus on the zooplankton Daphnia, which move in successive sequences consisting of a hop, a pause and a turn through an angle. Recent experiments have shown that their turning angle distributions...
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