Evolutionary trends in fish schools in heterogeneous environments

Hauke Reuter, Maren Kruse, Alberto Rovellini and Broder Breckling

Ecological Modelling, 2016, vol. 326, issue C, 23-35

Abstract: Individual-based modelling has contributed substantially to the understanding of fish schooling behaviour. Schooling is considered to grant several advantages, such as increased defense against predators and increased foraging success. Whereas the former has been well studied with empirical investigations and different modelling approaches, the latter has not received as much attention. Foraging success is considerably influenced by the emergent property of schools to locate and exploit heterogeneously distributed resources more efficiently than solitary fish. However, successful resource exploitation depends on individual fish properties as well as properties of the school in relation to patch size and spatial distribution of resources. Thus, schooling will be favourable in specific environmental conditions and less efficient in others.

Keywords: Fish schools; Individual-based model; Spatial heterogeneity; Food patch; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380015004172
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:326:y:2016:i:c:p:23-35

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.09.008

Access Statistics for this article

Ecological Modelling is currently edited by Brian D. Fath

More articles in Ecological Modelling from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().