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The Development Of A Water Quality Model For Baltimore Harbor, Back River, And The Adjacent Upper Chesapeake Bay, Harry V. Wang, Hui Lui, Kyeong Park
The Development Of A Water Quality Model For Baltimore Harbor, Back River, And The Adjacent Upper Chesapeake Bay, Harry V. Wang, Hui Lui, Kyeong Park
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Morphology Predicts Suction Feeding Performance In Centrarchid Fishes, Andrew M. Carroll, Peter C. Wainwright, Stephen H. Huskey, David C. Collar, Ralph G. Turingan
Morphology Predicts Suction Feeding Performance In Centrarchid Fishes, Andrew M. Carroll, Peter C. Wainwright, Stephen H. Huskey, David C. Collar, Ralph G. Turingan
Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications
Suction feeding fish differ in their capacity to generate subambient pressure while feeding, and these differences appear to relate to morphological variation. We developed a morphological model of force transmission in the fish head and parameterized it with measurements from individual fish. The model was applied to 45 individuals from five species of centrarchid fishes: Lepomis macrochirus, Lepomis punctatus, Lepomis microlophus, Micropterus salmoides and Pomoxis nigromaculatus. Measurements of epaxial cross-sectional area, epaxial moment arm, buccal area and buccal area moment arm were combined to estimate pressure generation capacity for individual fish. This estimation was correlated with pressure measured in fish …