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Diurnal Rhythm in ‘Organic Drift’ of Gammarus pulex

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Dendy1, Wolff2, Müller3 and Waters4 have described the phenomenon of organic drift in flowing waters. During an investigation of Baetis rhodani and B. vernus (Ephemeroptera) I showed that the drift of organisms in a flowing body of water is not a result of their being passively carried along but rather constitutes a periodic behaviour pattern (change in activity) on the part of the animals, which is connected with change between day and night5.

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MÜLLER, K. Diurnal Rhythm in ‘Organic Drift’ of Gammarus pulex. Nature 198, 806–807 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198806a0

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