TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kruschel, Claudia
A1  - Seidl, Tobias
T1  - Overcoming Obstacles - Biomimetic Lessons from the Swarming Behavior of Artemia Franciscana
T2  - Journal of Maritime & Transportation Sciences
N2  - We investigated the formation of Artemia franciscana swarms of freshly hatched instar I nauplii larvae. Nauplii were released into light gradients but then interrupted by light-direction changes, small obstacles, or long barriers. All experiments were carried out horizontally. Each experiment used independent replicates. Freshly produced Artemia broods were harvested from independent incubators thus providing true replicate cohorts of Artemia subjected as replicates to the experimental treatments.
We discovered that Artemia nauplii swarms can: 1. repeatedly react to non-obstructed light gradients that undergo repeated direction-changes and do so in a consistent way, 2. find their way to a light source within maze-like arrangements made from small transparent obstacles, 3. move as a swarm around extended transparent barriers, following a light gradient. This paper focuses on the recognition of whole-swarm behaviors, the description thereof and the recognition of differences in whole-swarm movements comparing non-obstructed swarming with swarms encountering obstacles. Investigations of the within-swarm behaviors of individual Artemia nauplii and their interactions with neighboring nauplii are in progress, e.g. in order to discover the underlying swarming algorithms and differences
thereof comparing non-obstructed vs. obstructed pathways.
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://whge.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4103
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1010-opus4-41037
SN  - 1848-9052
VL  - 2022
IS  - Vol. Special edition No. 4
SP  - 21
EP  - 43
CY  - Rijeka
ER  -