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Riding Langmuir circulations and swimming in circles: a novel form of clustering behavior by the scyphomedusa Linuche unguiculata
| Title: | Riding Langmuir circulations and swimming in circles: a novel form of clustering behavior by the scyphomedusa Linuche unguiculata. |
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| Name(s): |
Larson, R. J., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1992 | |
| Publisher: | Springer | |
| Extent: | 8 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3333198 (digitool), FADT3333198 (IID), fau:6278 (fedora), 10.1007/BF00702466 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Linuche unguiculata (Schwartz) seasonally forms patches in the Caribbean Sea and Indo-Pacific Ocean. Eighteen patches of medusae varying from about 500 m2 to nearly 1 km2 in area, were documented along the Belize barrier reef in March and April 1987, April 1988, and March and April 1990. The shape of each patch and the inter-medusa distances varied with wind velocity. At low wind speed (<4 m="">-1) patches were elliptical or circular and the individual medusae were separated by distances of 0.5 m, whereas at higher speeds windrows were evident and medusae were closer together. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Larson, R. J. (1992). Riding Langmuir circulations and swimming in circles: a novel form of clustering behavior by the scyphomedusa Linuche unguiculata. Marine Biology, 112(2), 229-235. doi:10.1007/BF00702466 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #885. |
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| Subject(s): |
Scyphomedusae Scyphozoa Zooplankton--Behavior |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333198 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00702466 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1992 Springer | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
