TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling social and lunar coordination in the spawning behavior of Fundulus heteroclitus
AU - Goodloe, Oscar
AU - Nishimura, Joel
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Drs. Timothy Gleason, and Diane Nacci from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for providing the mummichog data. We would also like to credit Drs. Diane Nacci, Bryan Clark, and Denise Champlin from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dr. Karen Watanabe from Arizona State University and Dr. Thijs Bosker from Leiden University for conversations relating to mummichog biology and modeling. Finally, this work was partially funded by a New College Undergraduate Inquiry and Research Experience (NCUIRE) scholarship provided by the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences of Arizona State University.
Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Drs. Timothy Gleason, and Diane Nacci from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for providing the mummichog data. We would also like to credit Drs. Diane Nacci, Bryan Clark, and Denise Champlin from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dr. Karen Watanabe from Arizona State University and Dr. Thijs Bosker from Leiden University for conversations relating to mummichog biology and modeling. Finally, this work was partially funded by a New College Undergraduate Inquiry and Research Experience (NCUIRE) scholarship provided by the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences of Arizona State University .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/6/30
Y1 - 2019/6/30
N2 - The timing of fish reproductive behavior can depend upon seasonal, lunar, social, and environmental cues, each with their own distinct ecological risks and sensitivities. Fundulus heteroclitus, commonly known as mummichogs, exhibit spawning behavior wherein both social and lunar effects appear to factor into when they spawn, and each to a differing degree depending on their geographic location. We model mummichog spawning behavior using a coupled oscillator model, including terms to account for both social and lunar influence as well as stochastic effects. Fitting the model parameters to laboratory mummichog spawning data from the Environmental Protection Agency reveals a dependency on both social and lunar coordination. In order to describe the extent of possible coordination we develop a data driven order parameter to address the difficulties inherent in measuring coordination in many-agent models where the dynamics of isolated individual agents are nontrivial.
AB - The timing of fish reproductive behavior can depend upon seasonal, lunar, social, and environmental cues, each with their own distinct ecological risks and sensitivities. Fundulus heteroclitus, commonly known as mummichogs, exhibit spawning behavior wherein both social and lunar effects appear to factor into when they spawn, and each to a differing degree depending on their geographic location. We model mummichog spawning behavior using a coupled oscillator model, including terms to account for both social and lunar influence as well as stochastic effects. Fitting the model parameters to laboratory mummichog spawning data from the Environmental Protection Agency reveals a dependency on both social and lunar coordination. In order to describe the extent of possible coordination we develop a data driven order parameter to address the difficulties inherent in measuring coordination in many-agent models where the dynamics of isolated individual agents are nontrivial.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.01.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060015310
SN - 1007-5704
VL - 72
SP - 360
EP - 370
JO - Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
JF - Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
ER -