CHAPTER 9
LOCOMOTION,
MIGRATION AND DISPERSAL OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS
Swimming
- Propulsive force
- Use of waves along all, or
part, of the body
- Use of power and recovery
strokes
- Jet propulsion
Movement
on/in the substratum
- Movements over the substratum
- Animals that burrow
- Organisms that are attached
to the substratum
Dispersal
- The need to disperse
- Strategies among the meroplankton
- Settlement after dispersal
Small
scale horizontal and vertical movements
- Drift and horizontal dispersal
in streams and rivers
- Vertical migrations of plankton
and reasons for this behaviour
- Vertical migrations in the
substratum, including those by algae
Migration
and long-range dispersal
- Long-range horizontal movements
- Migrations of organisms between
fresh and sea water