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AKB: Biologische Physik
AKB 40: Poster Session II
AKB 40.43: Poster
Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 16:30–19:30, P3
Optimal Foraging Strategy: Angle Matters — •Udo Erdmann1, Sebastian Göller1, Lutz Schimansky-Geier1, Igor M. Sokolov1, and Frank Moss2 — 1Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — 2Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at St. Louis
We report a theory to describe the motion of zooplankton. Into contrast to move just randomly like a classical Brownian particle, zooplankters like Daphnia or Copepods pick their turning angle from a distribution which is far from being Gaussian or equally distributed. This leads to different behavior in the motion compared to normal diffusion. The question which can be asked here is: Is there an evolutionary reason to forage for food in the aforementioned manner? The talk is planned to give an answer into that direction.