When it is good to be out of sync: copepod and marine snow interactions
Abstract
Abstract
Copepods’ interaction with marine snow and how they capture food is an understudied topic. The focus of this project is to create mathematical models of copepods and marine snow particles to study how different movement patterns create different feeding currents in order to maximize food intake. Once we had a working model, we asked questions such as ‘how do different Reynolds numbers (organism size), swimming patterns, and leg length affect food intake?’ and tried to determine characteristics that led to optimal feeding currents.
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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