The quirks of jerks

M. A. R. Koehl ()
Additional contact information
M. A. R. Koehl: University of California

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6712, 621-623

Abstract: Some plants and animals are attached to the seashore by flexible structures that allow them to move with the water as it sloshes shoreward and seaward. However, a series of mathematical models shows that this may not be the best strategy for these organisms to avoid being washed away by the waves, as the force experienced when the tether yanks the organism to halt may be greater than the hydrodynamic forces it is subject to.

Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/25231 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

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:nat:nature:v:396:y:1998:i:6712:d:10.1038_25231

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/25231

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().