Marine ecology: What does contact rate (Z) depend on?
This is both important for fish larvae but also for copopods like calanus.

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What does contact rate (Z) depend on?
This is both important for fish larvae but also  for copopods like calanus.

Asger LIndberg-Nielsen · Accepted Answer

1 - swimming speed
2 - abundance of prey 
3 - available search area (The distance a predator can sense pray from also matters.  
Polution and toxins act on the sensesory system and can decrease predators or gracings organisms aility to find food.  )

Marine ecology

What does contact rate (Z) depend on? This is both important for fish larvae but also for copopods like calanus.

1 - swimming speed 2 - abundance of prey 3 - available search area (The distance a predator can sense pray from also matters. Polution and toxins act on the sensesory system and can decrease predators or gracings organisms aility to find food. )

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