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Crustaceans use odor and fluid mechanical cues to extract information from their environment. These cues enable animals to find resources, orient to water currents, or escape predators. Because the properties of the fluid environment affect the transmission and structure of relevant signals, a better understanding of sensory and behavioral mechanisms will be aided by considering, at the same time, the hydrodynamic context of chemo- and mechanosensory behaviors. Crustaceans occupy aquatic habitats where flows range from almost completely laminar to nearly fully turbulent. The considerable scope of hydrodynamic properties is mirrored by equally extreme variations in the complexity of the signals entrained in these flows. Ambient noise and stochastic variation increase in increasingly energetic, turbulent conditions. The sensory and behavioral mechanisms of animals that orient in turbulent environments suggest that they have, in the course of evolution, been shaped by the flow properties. Here, sensory systems are geared to extract rapidly fluctuating signals against a noisy background. They sometimes have elaborate noise filtering mechanisms that enable the detection of rather coarse types of signal features to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. In contrast, the simpler and more predictable structure of signals carried in laminar flows may allow more accurate orientation and discrimination to occur, and free animals from the burden of supporting complex noise-filtering circuitry. Future comparative investigations of sensory physiology and behavior of animals in relation to their flow environment promise to increase our understanding of orientation by means of chemo- and mechanoperception.
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Weissburg, M.J. (1997). Chemo- and mechanosensory orientation by crustaceans in laminar and turbulent flows: From odor trails to vortex streets. In: Lehrer, M. (eds) Orientation and Communication in Arthropods. EXS, vol 84. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8878-3_8
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