Fluid Mechanics of Plankton
“The material called “Auftrieb” has been investigated by zoologists and botanists since the groundbreaking contributions by Johannes Müller. It has been investigated and collected many times with fine, permeable nets. This material is—besides Müller’s interest in its systematics and anatomy—without any doubt of great importance to the metabolism of the seas.This contribution tries to get a closer look at this metabolism. It turns out that the name “Auftrieb” is not sufficiently comprehensive and descriptive, therefore, I have preferred to name this material “Halyplankton” (1). However, since we are only talking about the oceans here, the shorter term “Plankton” will be sufficient. It is defined as “everything that floats in water, regardless of whether it is high or low in it, and whether it is dead or alive.”A limitation of the expression to include only certain forms as plankton would not encompass the many embryonic forms that no longer occur in the plankton in their developed states. The decisive factor is whether the animals drift with the flow of the water, or whether they move with a certain degree of independence from the driving forces? Fish, therefore, belong only in the form of eggs and brood to plankton, but not as adult animals; whereas the copepods, though lively swimming, are carried away with the water flow, and must therefore be counted as part of the plankton…”
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